
"Can Debian be taken seriously when it comes to video editing?" -- Random Ubuntard.
Well, how about this?
This is the result of a very easy to follow series of video tutorials on Cinelerra, by metalx1000. Here is the Youtube playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... C18229EA7C
See the that guy's website for more tutorials on Blender (both rendering and video editing), Ardour, Rosegarden, LMMS, and other tools:
http://filmsbykris.com/
Cinelerra Installation
The easiest way is to add the Debian Multimedia repositories and install either the cinelerra package, or cinelerra-cv , which is the community maintained version. See here for the difference between the two.
Discussions go here.

