At my Funutation Tekademy LLC company we run a Digital Video Production class using Kino and Cinelerra on Ubuntu. For the class we run on Ubuntu Intrepid but in the office we use Ubuntu Hardy. We found Hardy was better for printing from OpenOffice and PDF files. Hardy is the “Long Term Support” release, so maybe that’s why it’s better.
First enter the following
sudo apt-get install dvgrab kino
The dvgrab package uses a device file that acts as an interface between the digital video camera and the video editor (Kino or Cinelerra) which enables the firewire port.
After you connect the camera you will see these device files
/dev/dv1394/0
/dev/raw1394
Then on Hardy I had to download the updated kino software so that the captures would work correctly (apparently a fix due to an incorrect compile for the standard version. Do not use this on any other version of Ubuntu)
Click Here for the updated Kino software for Ubuntu Hardy. This version has the fix.
Tags: firewire ubuntu