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I've done some decent editing with Kdenlive.
https://kdenlive.org/en/
When looking around myself, it came highly recommended.

apps made for KDE, there's nothing that's, you know, killer. Instead, most K apps that don't look derelict look more like demos, half-baked to show off a feature of the toolkit-under-development rather than something you'd actually have confidence to rely on for the foreseeable future.

Kdenlive live says you're full of crap. What do you use for video editing?

What's wrong with Kdenlive?

Conversely, one of the reasons GNU+Linux on the desktop has not been a hit is because of the abhorrent support for commonly used multimedia file formats. The common user may not understand the technical names of software codecs and the multimedia formats they encode to and decode from, but they sure feel it when they are shipped a default installation that can read or create any possible format out there.

It's an immense achievement that an operating system with a Social Contract dedicated to only including Libre Software in its main repositories can be automagically more versatile at handing more media formats than proprietary OSes like Windows or Mac OS X. "Casual users" want their audio players, video players and editors, etc. to read and write anything, and the news here is that the complex libraries and codecs are included to be used by any software that needs to call them.

Different camcorders use different types of AVCHD. For a complete list of supported AVCHD formats look here

Official list of changes, not some blogpost -- http://www.kdenlive.org/discover/0.8

I was wondering how best to take long exposure images and not have the dark areas be over-exposed a while ago and I just came across this light-painting plugin for the video editor KDEnlive: http://www.kdenlive.org/users/granjow/light-graffiti-2nd Their plugin demo video is pretty neat and I would assume could be applied to video that has already been filmed and properly modified to enhance the brighter areas.

You could simply use it as a desktop. Linux has grown leaps and leaps and leaps forward and in many ways ahead of the Mac as a desktop, so read on.

KDE SC 4.5 (about to be released in a few days/weeks) is leaps ahead of the Mac OS X 10.5 GUI. The only catch is that it is not minimalistic. If you want minimalism you have to pick Gnome with Gnome DO and set it to act like a docky. Put a Mac OS X wallpaper in place and install a Mac OS X theme. However KDE has focussed on more minimalism since KDE4 without sacrificing features.

There is a KDE application for video editing that is unparalleled: Kdenlive: http://www.kdenlive.org/
It slaughters Sony Vegas in functionality and is free of charge too. It may not be stable enough yet (version 0.7) so it might be a little bit of a bumpy ride at first.

There is also a kick-ass music management application: AmaroK: http://amarok.kde.org/
It is compatible with iPods that are not of the latest generation (USB encryption crap)

KDE SC's default webbrowser is Konqueror, which, since KDE SC 4.5 also has WebKit support.
Google's Chrome is now also runnable on Linux.
If you don't like the Google privacy stuff than search for the Iron browser (they took the Chrome's source code and stripped it from any call home functionality)

For managing photo's, use DigiKam: http://www.digikam.org/

Personal information management: KDE PIM

For personal finance: http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html

Office work isn't Linux' best aspect, so you could install OpenOffice.org. It is however the best Office Suit available for the PPC. It doesn't look all that good if your distro of choice hasn't supplied their own KDE4 integration into it.

Now there are a lot of distributions, so what should you pick?
The best and most stable KDE4 distro I have ever tried is Fedora. The default download option is with Gnone so search for a PPC KDE version. Because Fedora core is not using anything that is even remotely patented, you have to go to the RPMFusion website to add Adobe's Flash, MP3 and QuickTime codecs and whatnot: http://rpmfusion.org/RPM%20Fusion

You can see pick your download here: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12/
The Problem I am seeing here is that the current version of Fedora is 13 and the latest PPC64 builds are for Fedora 12. This leads to a little outdated software (1 year).

What the hell is kdenlive?

What the hell is Final Cut Pro?

Not sure I'd consider them "world-class", but for most purposes kdenlive is pretty good for video editing under Linux, Eagle is a very popular PCB layout tool that runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.

The editor I plan to start writing tomorrow is already at v2.0, and of course Kdenlive ( http://www.kdenlive.org/ ) is probably just as useful to most people even if its not 100% feature equivalent.

Who do I have to suck of get my software slashvertised? Its a commercial product so I'm willing to pay also.

"Is this one usable, unlike the other ones for linux?"

IMO, it already features everything that most people will ever need and it seems quite stable, too, but I prefer Kdenlive.

Ever hear of Kdenlive? I use it all the time. Uses FFMPEG, has lots of nice effects, and the most recent release has been very stable for me so far ;)

Kdenlive is a pretty good video editor for Linux, FreeBDS and MacOS X.

I have to agree. I don't like to shoot at ambulances, but cinelerra is so broken I wonder if it could be salvaged in any meaningful way.

OTOH, kdenlive while not as feature-full as cinelerra is maturing quickly, and while some people complain of random crashes, I didn't myself found it to be excessively crash-prone. (Kdenlive 7.4, up-to-date fedora 10 32bits-PAE, AMD X64 3800+).

I prefer kdenlive.

Just because you can't does not mean Linux can't.

VideoConference http://ekiga.org/

Edit Video http://www.kdenlive.org/

Make mp3s: Insert CD copy mp3 folder with kde.org or Create new with http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

play video games with http://www.winehq.org/ or http://www.transgaming.com/ or god forbid you play open source games designed for linux. Too many to list see here http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php for a start.

make a slideshow, Ever use http://picasa.google.com/linux/ or KDE creates them on the fly from directory of pictures. Not to mention openoffice Impress http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html

How about a couple of kernel devs drop off and help Linux go the last mile.

How about you let the kernel devs do what they do best, and acquaint yourself with a little thing I like to call Google http://www.google.com/webhp.

Well I agree that there needs to be better applications for Linux, however your reasons are incorrect. I don't know of an application for videoconferencing off the top of my head because I don't use that, for editing videos try KDENLIVE http://www.kdenlive.org/, for MP3s thats simply a patent restricted format, just tell your government to reject software patents, for video games try to run your windows games in WINE and there are many Linux games, try some of those, just because its not 3-D doesn't mean that its bad. And OOo has a sideshow presentation software included with it.