Jack Wallen |Exclusive When you think about video editing and Linux, most likely your thoughts immediately gravitate to the likes of OpenShot, Kdenlive, or Flowblade. And with good reason. These tools are outstanding video editors that hang their hat on being open source and readily accessible for Linux users (although Flowblade has a ways to go before it's ready for the average user).
The Voodoo Camera Tracker estimates camera parameters and reconstructs a 3D scene from image sequences. The estimation algorithm offers a full automatic and robust solution to estimate camera parameters for video sequences. The results are useful for many applications like film production, 3D reconstruction, or video coding. The estimated parameters can be exported to the 3D animation packages: 3D Studio Max, Blender, Lightwave, Maya, and Softimage.
A web page with several streaming video tutorials on basic editing techniques for those new to the software. Many applications and techniques apply to most editing software.