Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

What's new on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala?
1. New GDM Login (Though I hate it because of it's colour)
2. New Default Icons (Pretty cool actually)
3. New Theme (New Wave & Human)
4. Ubuntu One (Online Storage - 2gb free)
5. Mozilla Firefox 3.5
6. Empathy (Supports Voice and Video chat) - You can switch to Pidgin(better looking)
7. Software Center (Replaces Add/Remove)
and more...

What else does Ubuntu 9.10 comes pre-installed with?
1. Open Office - Edit or view your documents, presentations, spreadsheets (Supports Microsoft extensions like .doc, .docx, .ppt and most other extensions)
2. Rhythmbox - Play music, rip cds, share music through DAAP on LAN, sync with Portable Player(iPod, MTP), manage cover arts, update status on Instant Messengers, stream radio online, subscribe to pod casts.
3. Totem Movie Player - It plays movies...duh. Well, it can stream and play videos from YouTube and BBC (which I've never succeeded) - Try Minitube for YouTube.
4. Evince PDF Reader - View PDF
5. F-Spot Photo Manager - Edit, upload your photos to Picasa Web, Flickr or SmugMug, 23 or export to Facebook, create DVD photo slideshow and more with extensions.
6. Gimp - Edit pictures or create animation. Check out Meet the Gimp for more tips.

There are many more software which is downloadable from Synaptic Manager or Ubuntu Software Center. Try Ubuntu Live CD or USB now. (You don't have to install it on your computer, it will just run on your memory/RAM and you can decide later if you would like to install it.)
Checkout 10 things I Like About Ubuntu 9.10 (not by me)
How to make a Ubuntu Live USB?

OpenShot: Video Editor

OpenShot is a new video editor which looks promising as it has made so much progress while it's still new in the open source region.

Features:
1) It claims to add almost any video and yes "flv" as well. (I tried mpg2, flv, mp4, mpg and all of these worked.)
2) Zoom in and zoom out (the length of video)
3) Multiple tracks (You can add by clicking the add button which is on the far left above the tracks.)
4) Split and resizing of videos - Makes video editing easier without the necessity to resize the track over and over again. (Use Razor, next to mouse button)
5) Video transitions
6) Add pictures, watermarks and overlays... (You can make a logo or something on Gimp and add it on a track 2 - which is above track 1 - the edited video and the logo will be on the video)
7) Multiple output format (Most output works but sadly right now YouTube HD output doesn't, I shall wait for fixed bugs but meanwhile I would use other output formats)
8) Support 32-bit and 64-bit.
9) Simple interface

When I installed OpenShot on my Ubuntu 9.04, I couldn't start OpenShot from the shorcut on desktop or the shorcut on the Gnome menu. Right click on the shorcut on the desktop and change the command to:
python /home/YOURNAME/openshot/openshot/openshot.py
YOURNAME should be the username of your system.
Then it works!!!

How to install on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala?
Open Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa

Then, it will ask your password, so key in your password and if you realise, the gpg key is automatically downloaded.

sudo apt-get update

It will then update to get the latest packages from the sources and now you're ready to download them.

sudo apt-get install openshot ffmpeg-extra frei0r-plugins melt python-support x264

After OpenShot is installed, find it on Applications → Sound & Video → OpenShot Video Editor

Multimedia Software

From now on, I'm going to update more about video editing, audio editing and photo or graphic editing on Linux. Some of these software can also be used in Windows. Of course, these software are open source.

The main software that you will need to download would be:



1. Audacity - A simple audio editor. Now with this tool, you can cut your mp3 and create a special ring tone for yourself that no one else would have. You can record, fade in, fade out, increase or decrease the amplitude of the sound and more. Check it out (Linux, Windows and OS X versions available).



2. Gimp - Graphic and photo editor. It's easy to use, looks complicated in thebeginning, but once you get used to it, you wouldn't look back. You can even create your comic with this tool (Linux, Windows and OS X versions available).




3. Cinelerra - a video editor and compositor for Linux. Again, it looks complicated and you will need to learn how to use it. Every beginning is difficult, but it's worth to learn. Of course you can't compare it to Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro / After Effects, Apple's Final Cut Pro / Express. It is not as simple as Windows Movie Maker or Apple's iMovie but it sure has a lot more things that it can do.



4. Kino - a non-linear DV editor. Usually we use this software to capture video to hard disk from DV tapes and to cut the captured video and to convert it to available codecs on Linux.

Songbird - Music Player

A beautiful Music Player for the modern generation.


Pros
*Cross-platform
*Supports multiformat playback - ogg, mp3, aac, wma, flac & more
*Uses GStreamer
*Watch Folders
*Album Art (configure it in options to be able to get it from internet automatically & to get it from the local folder)
*Web-browser - that's right, Firefox built-in.
*Custom Skins - Just like an add-on.... Same like Firefox.
*Many add-ons.
*SHOUTcast Radio
*Last.fm Scrobbling

Cons
*Not very stable
*Slow for some reason compared to Winamp.
*More complicated that WMP & Winamp. (You need to get used to it, oh well, it took us some time to get used to WMP & Winamp)

Download here.