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KINO installation
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Kino is a modest but stable non-linear digital video editor for GNU/Linux. With Kino, you can capture and export digital video over your firewire connection, view your captured videos and edit them lightly, and then export them, either back to your camcorder or to your hard drive. Home movies, here you come! A few effects are included as plugins. Kino's developers have consistently emphasized reliability in the features included. One of the developers of Kino helped to write the dv1394 kernel module which you will probably use a lot. 

WARNING! Please install the files in the order given here. In particular, you MUST install the Kino plug-ins BEFORE Kino, and smilutils AFTER Kino.

1. First, install all needed IEEE 1394 (firewire) devices, modules, and libraries. These are found in the 1394 directory. Please read the README-FIRST there BEFORE installing.

2. Install Kino dependencies:

gnome-libs-1.4.1.7-i386-1.tgz
nasm-0.98.36-i386-1.tgz
SDL-1.2.6-i586-1.tgz
ImageMagick-5.5.7-i586-1.tgz
imlib2-1.1.0-i586-1.tgz
ffmpeg-0.4.8-i586-1.tgz
libquicktime-0.9.2-i586-1.tgz
mjpegtools-1.6.1.92-i586-1.tgz

As root, type:
ldconfig
to have the libraries recognized.

3. Install dvgrab:

dvgrab-1.4-i586-1.tgz

4. Install Kino plug-ins (in this order):

kinoplus-0.2.2-i586-1.tgz
dvtitlerplug-0.0.5-i586-1.tgz

5. Install Kino:

kino-0.6.5-i586-1.tgz

6. Install Kino and DV related utilities:

smilutils-0.3.0-i586-1.tgz

7. Look in the .gnome folder of your home directory. If one or both of the following two files is not there, then copy it/them to your .gnome folder. This will allow you to access the Kino help files from within Kino:

Gnome
gnome-moz-remote

8. Finally, if you want Kino on your desktop, the file "kino.png" (included) can serve as an icon. One place to copy it (as root) might be

/usr/X11R6/share/dfm/icons/

Or you can just keep it someplace safe in your home directory -- it doesn't matter, as long as you know where it is. To make a Kino icon, right-click on an existing icon on your desktop, and then select Create/New program icon. Type the word "kino" in the Program box and click Create. Wait a bit. After the new icon appears on your desktop, move it where you like, right-click on it and select Options. Click on the icon in the window that appears, browse to where kino.png is, select it, click Apply, the Close.

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KINO HINTS:

The Kino help files are very terse, but surprisingly helpful, if you read and follow every word in the directions.

Since the VL 4.0 kernel provides full dv1394 support, in the Preferences for Kino, you should use dv1394 instead of the raw1394 defaults in the IEEE1394 tab. In that tab, change the driver in both DV Capture and DV Export sections to dv1394. In DV capture, change the device to /dev/dv1394. In DV Export, change the device to /dev/dv1394/0.

Audio. If you are importing audio into your video, you should know that Kino only likes to see 16-bit signed stereo audio files. You should also make sure that the sample rate of the files you import is the same as the sample rate set in your Preferences, or you will probably have problems.

kino, smilutils, and dvgrab have man pages.

Happy editing!