Need help with editing. Basic questions

[laccrosserocks]

hey... me and my dad are building a ubuntu server. I am planing to put some video editing softwares on it. I had a couple basic questions.

1. what is the best free software i can get for home made editing?

2. I wanted to make a movie but, I only have a couple people that can help me out. is there any way i can edit thier faces to make it look like a diferent person?

3.how does green screen editing work?

4. how do i put in action efects?... Like gun shots ect.

If there is anyone who can help me thanks alot

[TSS]

You might try: http://ubuntustudio.org/

[Jim!]

I suggest you try KINO for video editing: http://www.kinodv.org/

A tool you can use for advanced image editing is TheGIMP - http://www.gimp.org/

Both these tools are free, you may also be interested in taking a look at blender (A 3D modelling program)

[Hospadar]

Kino's nice for cutting, if you want a nice advanced graphical transcoder (if you're uncomfortable with CLI transcoders like mencoder and transcode) you may want to look into avidemux. I use it along with my command-line encoders. There are some things it does really well.

If you need more advanced video editing, you'll probably have to look into commercial software. Blender could do some animation, but it's not easy to use, you'd need a book and a whole lot of time at least.

[fenian]

1. what is the best free software i can get for home made editing?

Kino
Kdenlive
Open Movie editor
Cinelerra (higher learning curve but more powerful.)

2. I wanted to make a movie but, I only have a couple people that can help me out. is there any way i can edit thier faces to make it look like a diferent person?

Pretty advanced CGI here I don't think you will find a free solution,maybe with Blender.You can also Rotoscope using gimp,very tedious and time consuming.

3.how does green screen editing work?

Good basic info here
Can be done in both Open Movie and Cinelerra.

4. how do i put in action efects?... Like gun shots ect.

For video effects this is again more advanced CGI you can use rotoscoping or a matte technique.
For the audio you would just create a seperate track for audio effects and put the clips in the appropriatplaces.

Any advanced video editing/effects programs on any platform are pretty expenive ($2,000 +) as well as dificult to learn.I would recommend trying to use as little extra effects as possible (not just on linux but any platform).