A new version of Kdenlive - video editing software - was recently released (http://www.kdenlive.org/) but installing it has been a bit daunting. Today I came across a ppa which has it all packaged up for kubuntu intrepid. It looks great, though I haven't actually hooked my video camera up to it yet. :-)
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