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Media Open Source

Adding WaterMarks to Videos in KdenLive


A range of video effects in Kdenlive
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Kdenlive is a wonderful opensource program for video editing that I have off late become a huge fan of. The software is little tough to initially understand but once you get used to it, its very easy to make pleasing videos on it.



One of the recent problems I faced in Kdenlive was to add a watermark to a video I had created. One of the ways to create a watermark on a kdenlive project is as follows:

  1. Create the base project and save your project
  2. Now create a new project with same project settings – fps, resolution etc.
  3. Select «Add Clip» and select the first project you created
  4. Now create a title slide with the information that you will use to watermark.
  5. Now using the Composite transition place the title slide over the first project. You can use the opacity control to control the transperacy of your water mark
  6. Render you video.
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Linux Solutions Ubuntu

Solve Choqok’s Twitter Connectivity Problems…

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Choqok the new and impressive micro-blogging client for KDE is one of the best clients for microblogging sites. The tool available via the default repositories of Ubuntu does not support the latest OAuth authentication of Twiiter. This means that it wont be able to connect to twitter.

You will need the latest version of Choqok to be able to reconnect to twitter. This can be done as shown below

  • Open the Konsole and execute the following commands:
  • $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adilson/experimental

    $ sudo apt-get update

    $ sudo apt-get install choqok

  • Once installed you will need to reauthenticate your twitter feeds.
    Select the Settings -> Configure Choqok menu item
    In the Accounts tab remove all the old twitter accounts and add them back again
    For each account you will be taken to twitter.com to give permission for Choqok to access your data
    Once done you will get a number, copy-paste the number back in Choqok dialog to get Choqok working again.

The new Choqok also has added features of auto-complete for friend names and better integration with url shortening sites.

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Linux Open Source

KNemo – Monitor your Internet usage…

KNemo is a Network monitoring program for Linux. The program stores information wrt the amount of data communicated thru your various LAN connections and also provides a way to automatically disable the internet on certain conditions.

KNemo is a simple addon program to your network management enabling you to control your internet usage. It also provides methods to disable internet in case you exceed the monthly bandwidth limit of your plan. Its an excellent tool to study your usage of internet over time.

To install Knemo on a ubuntu system, use the following command:
sudo apt-get install knemo

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Linux Media Open Source

Managing Collections with Tellico

Tellico
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Tellico is a versatile collection manager for Linux. The KDE based application is designed to handle almost any type of perceivable collection and convert it to a easily manageable solution. If you have a huge collection of movies, music, books, comics ect and regularly lend them out, Tellico is the perfect program to keep track of your collections.

Tellico has pre-designed support for collections of: Books, Comics, Movies, Music, Coins, Stamps, Board Games, Wines. Cards and Games. The databases are designed to make data entry and search both relevant and easy.

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Linux Solutions Ubuntu Web

Transfer files Effortlessly between Ubuntu Systems using Kepas

Kepas is a KDE4 file transfer tool. It discovers your local LAN for buddies (KDNSSD) and lets you transfer files or Klipper(KDE Clipboard) entries from a tray icon or using drag and drop with the Kepas plasmoid.

Kepas has only one requirement, that it must be installed in all the systems that are expected to be part of the network sharing group.