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I've been very impressed with this screencast.

Is there a simple way to create a professional-looking screencast using open software on Ubuntu? I'm mainly interested with good-looking transitions between images and videos.

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Just to make clear - this ScreenCast question (askubuntu.com/questions/4428/how-to-create-a-screencast) is available - you could say this is a duplicate since how "professional" any application is debatable! – fossfreedom♦ Sep 11 '11 at 13:02
I moved my answer to the other topic. – Rinzwind Sep 11 '11 at 13:08
That's fancy indeed. I don't know of any tools that has this built-in, but there are video editors that can add nice transitions between videos. There are also tools that can be used to add overlays. So while you probably won't get it in a single tool, you should be able to achieve similar effects by using specialized tools. – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Sep 11 '11 at 13:23
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Given that we have an exhaustive list of Screencast tools (as linked above) I think you're really looking to pair a tool from that list and a video editor. You may wish to change the subject of your question to better focus it to "Video editor to create professional appearance" or something like that. – Marco Ceppi♦ Sep 11 '11 at 14:41
@Marco Ceppi Thanks, updated. – Adam Matan Sep 11 '11 at 15:04

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kdenlive install kdenlive

Kdenlive is a free open-source video editor for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, which supports DV, AVCHD and HDV editing. Kdenlive relies on several other open source projects, such as FFmpeg, the MLT video framework and Frei0r effects.

Kdenlive main window

Kdenlive is easily the best video editor currently available for Ubuntu. There is also a gtk-frontend for MLT framework (OpenShot) but it has less features and worse user interface.

Kdenlive supports wide array of video formats, images and transitions. Rendering tool has ready presets for most situations like Youtube, DVD, different mobile devides, etc. so you don't need to be an expert of video compression.

You can get it from Ubuntus repository but I'd suggest you get the latest version from project site. They even have a repository set up for Ubuntu.

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