retrieve 8.04 official doc video-editing section in current stable release official doc

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to contact us. I tidied up a lot of this section prior to Jaunty's release, some of the information was outdated and lacking a consensus on what to offer this information was omitted.

If you have suggestions I will be happy to put them into the next release.
If you

Dougie, I think we can simply include in the section "recording and editing video", under "Movies, DVDs and videos" chapter, a list of popular video tasks with the corresponding software to use, for example

HOW TO:
make a DVD -> use DeVeDe
edit a video -> use either PiTiVi or Kino or OpenMovieEditor
rip a dvd -> use either Thoggen DVD Ripper or AcidRip
record a desktop session -> use gtk-recordMyDesktop
record a movie from webcam -> use Cheese

The listed apps are, for my experience (I tried many and many multimedia apps as I use Ubuntu as multimedia station) the best apps available that mix usability and functionality. When I list more apps for a certain "how-to" is because some tasks require the use of more apps: for example to rip a dvd Thoggen is a great software to rip into ogg but if you require to rip into other format you have to choose AcidRip (I haven't include other popular software as DVD::Rip, better than acidrip for completeness, because transcode is very buggy than mplayer/mencoder).

Removing myself from ubuntu-docs bugs.

I'd be wiling to attempt to take this on. What source xml files from which bzr need to be modified to accomplish this task?

It sounds like the OP wants some of the documentation in the musicvideophotos section of the Hardy branch:
   https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu-hardy
brought into the current development branch:
   https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-docs/lucid

If you need help getting started, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation
Thanks!

Here is my proposed modification to the documentation pertaining to recording and editing video.

Book 'em Dano, thanks for your patch. I made a couple of adjustments to it, most importantly because it did not validate. In the future, please validate changes by running:
   scripts/validate.sh sectionname/C/sectionname.xml
The directions on the wiki are a bit confusing - even though you changed video.xml, you run the validate command against the parent xml, which is always named after the directory structure. In this case your command would be:
   scripts/validate.sh musicvideophotos/C/musicvideophotos.xml

Fix committed to Lucid dev branch, rev 482. Cheers.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-docs - 10.04.2

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ubuntu-docs (10.04.2) lucid; urgency=low

  * General:
    - Fixes to scripts/fix-url.sh (including LP: #482862)
    - Fix character encoding in contributors.xml (LP: #448618)
    - Updated version in browser-startpage html files, LP: #526320
    - Refresh pot files
  * Add-applications:
    - Updates for UI changes, Phil Bull
  * Config-desktop:
    - Added topic on changing window buttons from the left, Phil Bull
  * Hardware:
    - Added mention of gsynaptics, Connor Imes, LP: #450567
  * Internet:
    - Refresh list of plugins supplied by ubuntu-restricted-extras, branch
      from Nathan Murray, LP: #504981
    - Updates to reflect that Ekiga no longer installed by default, Connor Imes,
      LP: #508572
    - Grammar fix from Alex Wardle, LP: #517776
    - Order adjustment for shares-admin usage, Alex Wardle, LP: #518119
    - Button name change for shares-admin app, Alex Wardle, LP: #518170
    - Use unlock icon in networking section, Alex Wardle, LP: #518117
    - Updated directions on changing text size and page zooming in firefox,
      Alison Rowland, LP: #512556
    - Fixed guilabel usage in modem section. Alex Wardle, LP: #521243
    - Updated button and tab names in Static Connections section,
      Alex Wardle, LP: #521508
    - Typo fix in adsl section. Alex Wardle, LP: #525349
    - Removed unused and empty basics.xml, LP: #525431
    - Minor wording update to directions for sharing folders via nautilus,
      Connor Imes, LP: #518175
    - Use 'NetworkManager' not 'Network Manager' for consistency, Connor Imes
      LP: #518107
    - Update to troubleshooting mobile devices, Connor Imes, LP: #453459
    - Adjusted description of NetworkManager applet icons, Connor Imes
      LP: #440826
    - Additions to VPN section of connecting guide, Alex Wardle, LP: #452647
    - Expanded on using config files for vpn connections, Connor Imes
    - Command line substitution for Services utility which is not in Karmic or
      Lucid, Connor Imes, LP: #518460
    - Structural and language changes + updates for UI changes, Phil Bull
  * Musicvideophotos:
    - Added section for recording and editing video, Book 'em Dano, LP: #367569
  * Newtoubuntu:
    - Complete rewrite, Matthew East
  * Printing:
    - Simple Scan replaced xsane for scanning documents, Alex Wardle, LP: #546193
  * Serverguide:
    - Rename link to serverguide in advanced-topics.xml, Gilbert
      Mendoza, LP: #505708
    - Use distro-short-codename variable for vmbuilder documentation in
      serverguide rather than static version example, Connor Imes,. LP: #509653
    - Small fixes to security chapter, Connor Imes, LP: #510703
    - Small fixes from Nathan Handler, LP: #507624
    - Configuration change for OpenLDAP, Connor Imes, LP: #511090
    - Refresh of network-config section, Gilbert Mendoza, LP: #506800
    - Update manpage links to use distro-short-codename, Connor Imes
    - Changed OpenLDAP replication to use single Provider/Consumer configuration,
      Adam Sommer
    - Removed grub-password-security section - it does not apply to Grub2,
      Gilbert Mendoza, LP: #384148
    - Refere...