Flossie 20121 was the UK's first women-only free software conference: it provided an amazing opportunity to record the experiences and interests of women, who are often seen as a minority group in computing. What had started out as a fun idea to record some vox-pops had snowballed into 30 half hour plus long interviews, capturing the passionately expressed opinions of women with a very wide variety of interest and experience in free software. From librarians to techno-artists and from academics to business leaders: the project had really “bitten off more than it could chew.”
Amazing as this was, the project then hit a problem: none of the people involved in the project had time to edit the hours of footage that had been collected. The net for free software video editors was cast wider, and there were many people with the interest, however, few of them had much knowledge of video editing tools or methods.
Eventually a video editing sprint was arranged where a group of individuals were trained to edit interviews and where the editing was done over a period of a few days in a collaborative environment.
The task in this chapter is a short and simplified version of the book2 which provided training for sprint attendees. Both guides explain how to edit an interview using Kdenlive, and can be used as a guide for both individual and group editing projects, however this guide focuses on an interview where the video and audio were taken on one decivce, for example a mobile phone or camera.
Kdenlive, which stands for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor), is a free software video editing software package, released under the GPL2 licence. (LINK TO KDENLIVE)
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