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Hi All,
I am in the process of shooting home made movie, I need to do lot of editing. What is the best software for this? I have seen few free but there is always some kind of limit as to what you can do. I don't mind paying $100 or $150 to buy the software.

I am using Canon Digital camcorder to shoot this movie. The file gets generated as MTS format.

What ever the software I choose, first we need to change the format from MTS to MOV. Is that best format when your final goal is to make a movie or is there a better version?

Second, I need to edit and join and may need to add some kind of music in the background.

Please advice. Thank you so much.
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KINO(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   KINO(1)

NAME
kino - non-linear editing of Digital Video data SYNOPSIS
kino [ ( file | playlist ) ... ] DESCRIPTION
kino allows you to import movies from DV camcorders, to edit, and play them. file may be a DV encoded file that will be loaded at startup. Alternatively, you can specify a SMIL playlist of DV files that was previously created with kino. DV is a special kind of video encoding, commonly used in digital camcorders. Differently coded movies, like DivX or mjpeg, need to be con- verted to DV before they can be fed into kino. A video file either holds the raw DV-coded data, or wraps it in a certain container format. Kino currently supports AVI, and QuickTime con- tainers, and distinguishes between the different formats by file extension. Therefore, file names need to end in .dv or .dif for raw files, .avi for AVI, and .mov for QuickTime files, respectively. Anything else is treated as a SMIL playlist. KEYSTROKES
Unlike other editors, kino uses many keyboard commands for fast navigation and editing inside the movie. It acts on frames that are single images from a movie, scenes that are defined as groupings of one or more frames with recording times differing by no more than one second, and movies that are groups of one or more scenes. The following keystrokes can be used for moving and editing. Some of them are also avail- able as buttons in a graphical menu bar. (Also note the deliberate similarities between kino commands and the text editor vi.) The follow- ing is a brief list of the commands. A more complete list is available in the online help. MOVING AROUND space Toggle between play and pause. l, right-arrow Move one frame forward. h, left-arrow Move one frame backward. gg Move to the start of the movie. G Move to the end of the movie. 0, ^ Move to the start of the current scene. $ Move to the end of the current scene. j, return, +, down-arrow Move to the start of the next scene. k, -, up-arrow Move to the start of the previous scene. ctrl-f Move forward five scenes. ctrl-b Move backwards five scenes. w Move forward one second. b Move backwards one second. DELETE OPERATIONS x, dl, d space, del cut the current frame. dd cut the current scene. d$ cut from current frame to end of scene. d^, d0 cut from start of scene to before current frame. dG cut to end of movie. dgg cut from beginning of movie. CLONE OPERATIONS yl, y space copy the current frame. yy, Y copy the current scene. y$ copy from current frame to end of scene. y^, y0 copy from start of scene to current frame. INSERT OPERATIONS p paste after current frame. P paste before current frame. GENERAL COMMANDS :r inserts a SMIL playlist or DV AVI before frame. (Pops up a file dialog.) :w saves the movie as a SMIL playlist. (Pops up a file dialog.) :q quits the program. SEE ALSO
the kino online help, kino2raw(1), dvgrab(1) AUTHORS
kino was written by Arne Schirmacher <arne@schirmacher.de>, Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, and Charles Yates <charles.yates@pandora.be>. This manual page was originally written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). January 2004 KINO(1)