[nzlug] Where to start... where to start...

[Nevyn]

*shudder*

I still wonder why MS would make such a limited movie editor. When
compared to iMovie, Windows Movie Maker is positively primitive. Now
if only someone could make something like iMovie for Linux.

On Feb 12, 2008 3:58 PM, Steve Withers <sbwithers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was pretty much 100$ Linux for over 6 years, then had to resort to Windows
> for (easy/ simple / fast) video editing and other multimedia tasks. All the
> Linux video editing software I tried either seg-faulted immediately or was
> impenetrably obtuse as far as actually using it was concerned. Cinelerra
> came the closest, but the sound was messed up on all attempts and it could
> read only a limited number of video formats. Too hard.
>
> So now I use Windows as my main system on two PCs and one laptop, while
> Linux  isued mainly for surfing the web, e-mail and  burning CDs / DVDs of
> photos from my digital camera and videos made on Windows.
>
> If Linux had something as simple and easy to use as Windows Movie maker,
> that would be good enough for  me.
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2008 7:54 PM, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello folks. Noob here.
> >
> >
> > For years I've been saying "right that's the last MS machine I'm going
> > to get" and now it's finally happened. New Laptop... Vista pre-installed
> > (entirely against my will) but with xp on disc if so-desired etc...
> >
> > so it looks like Ubuntu is where I'm headed.
> >
> > I write web-apps for people who use Windows and IE, so I'm kindof
> > thinking that maybe it might be a good idea if I can dip into Windows/IE
> > for testing things, but the rest of the time stay with Linux.
> >
> > Which (I imagine) would probably mean either having a dual-boot system
> > or running windows in some sort of... window, or something. Which I'd
> > prefer because... rebooting is a pain in the arse.
> >
> > What do you reckon?
> >
> > I'm a fairly adept PHP bloke (about 8 years experience etc) - but my
> > linux knowledge is about the same as my dos knowledge... about 10 words
> > - Enough for rudimentry server admin, but that's about it.
> >
> >
> > Any pointers, advice etc?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Nick
> >
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