For creating screencasts (recordings of desktop sessions), two available programs are Istanbul and gtk-recordMyDesktop.

Use Cheese to record video using a webcam.

To backup DVDs, use Thoggen DVD Ripper which rips video DVD files into patent-free, royalty-free, Ogg/Theora video files, or AcidRip which provides a bit more flexibilty by encoding video DVD files into other video formats.

Kdenlive, Kino, and PiTiVi Video Editor are some of the programs available to edit video.

Kdenlive is multi-track video editor that offers support for a range of camcorders and cameras. It includes guides and markers to organize timelines, support for a wide range of codecs and formats, and the capability to use different media types such as video, audio and images.

Kino is a video editor that features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 (Firewire) for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.

PiTiVi Video Editor is a simple, easy to use video editor.

DeVeDe is a DVD authoring application capable of creating DVD discs which can be played in set-top DVD players.

Some other interesting recording and video editing programs include Stopmotion which creates videos using the stop-motion animation technique, and Subtitle Editor which edits subtitles for videos.