[nzlug] Ubuntu 8.04

[Steve Withers]

David

I've tried Cinelerra. It messed up the sound and didn't seem to know what to
do with the ordinary mpegs my SONY digital camera produces that I wanted to
edit. I deliberately chose a camera with the most generic video output
format. Nothing Microsoft, Quicktime or otherwise weird. Cinelerra messed up
the sound badly and "felt" flakey.

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:27 PM, David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 21:13 +1200, Steve Withers wrote:
> > I want to get kdenlive working on Linux so I can abandon Windows for
> > video-editing.......and thus use Linux for everything.
>
> Are you sure you want kdenlive? In my experience, that app tends to
> segfault if you so much as sneeze near it.
>
> That said, kdenlive might have got better over the last few months. But
> still, why not give Cinelerra a go? It's a great basic multitrack
> nondestructive video editor - way more user-friendly than editors like
> kino, offers good importing/exporting and even pipes to ffmpeg. Also,
> with a very rich range of effects to play with. And, if it crashes, you
> can restore from where you left off.
>
> Also, there's OpenMovieEditor - much more emphasis on the simplicity and
> ease of use, but with its inbuilt support for frei0r-compliant effects,
> it can pack a punch. (also, writing Frei0r effects is fun and easy -
> lovely C interface). Fast as hell, being built around the FLTK/GL
> widgets.
>
> For the uber-geeky, don't write off Blender - its node editor, its
> growing support for 2D video editing as well as its python scripting
> APIs and massive support community make it a dark horse well in the
> running.
>
> The build processes for both Cinelerra and OpenMovieEditor are
> straightforward, well-documented and don't require any unduly esoteric
> libs. Blender is already pre-built and available from the standard
> feeds.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
>
>
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