I can only report from my personal experience. Cinelerra is like a
love-hate relationship. You don't like her because of her sometimes
old-fashioned and stubborn behaviour and she is not very pretty to look
at, but you like her because she is reliable and has many features that
others don't have. But like in some contests the attractive, but not
necessarily talented ones win the hearts of the masses.
Nevertheless I agree, there is still room for improvement.
Sam
Am 21.05.20 um 21:22 schrieb Rafa Mar Multimedia en Gnu\Linux:
Cinelerra is very powerful, but not very intuitive.
There is no way to think about the beginnings to see the problems.
My opinion is that there are mainly three things that scare new users
away.
The interface, people nowadays don't like interfaces with different
windows. It doesn't bother me, but I think it would be much easier to
capture new users with a single window interface.
The upload wizard, which mixes the upload of projects with that of
multimedia files. The first times I tried to work with Cinelerra here
I was already very stuck. I think this that I am commenting on now has
scared away more people than the interface of different windows. It is
absurd to try to load a file and put it on the timeline ... nobody
expects this result. In fact I do not see that in other applications
this is so. And what do people do, they spend half an hour fighting
with this, they install another editor that does not believe this
early problem and they quickly forget about Cinelerra, leaving the
name of Cinelerra in their subconscious as something bad, something to
avoid.
And the third point, file browsers, are missing a favorites panel, to
go quickly from one folder to another.
Summary.
Gimp today offers the possibility of working with panels or using a
single window. Would it be easy to implement this in Cinelerra? Modern
interfaces are like this, see professional applications or even free
ones like Olive, Kdenlive ... etc ...
Make an assistant for loading projects and another for loading media.
Totally independent, because this is what most people have driven away
from Cinelerra.
Add a panel in the navigation windows that integrates with the system
folders and your favorites, or failing that, a panel where you can put
your favorites.
Of all these points, the one that seems to me that it would be more
important to change urgently so as not to scare new users away is the
media loading assistant.
That I think this does not mean that these things should be changed,
but I am convinced that if it were done, or had already been done,
Cinelerra would have many more users. What good is having the best
motion tracking plugin if people get stuck in the media upload wizard?
I myself if I had not seen a video that explained how to upload a file
in the Resources window, I think that today I still would not have
succeeded, and it is sad that such a powerful application has these
assistants so illogical and not imitated by nobody.
Renewed or die.
Regards. I continue with my basic tutorials, because I am still
discovering Cinelerra.
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