Hello everybody, IMO, Cinelerra shouldn't be "rewritten" from the beginning. Cinelerra is one of the few *nix tools I really like. The others being vim, mutt, mjpeg, imagemagick, gimp and... the ksh tools. Of course cinelerra isn't quite easy to start with. It's a NL video editor. Reading the doc is definitely a must. But as soon as you've read the doc, tried to understand how it works, and ask for help on this mailing list (what I did, BTW), then you discover cinelerra is really well made. I mean, ok, it's not easy at the beginning, but when you understand how it works, it's really quick, easy and powerful. And that is definitely the most important thing in my opinion. Let's take the export window for example. It's possible to export an MJPEG stream, which can be encoded on the fly by the mjpegtools suite. OK, it can look a bit complicated at first, but believe me, when you'll have a look at all the possibilities offered by the mjpegtools suite, you'll be very happy to be able to encode your videos with the settings and the filters you need.
I'd be really disppointed to see that marvellous program to be progressively bloated with stuff like an interface made for idiots and something like a "Make you video wizard". Using a NL video editor needs patience and attention. You can't use a NL video editor as you use Kino for example. What about your beginings in the Linux world? Did you install Linux and then said it needs to be rewritten because it's too complicated? Rather than complaining about the way cinelerra is, what about asking questions here? That would help you to start with cinelerra, and then you'd probably understand why it's made that way... I'm sure an important part of people complaining about the cinelerra interface did not spent more than 1 hour reading the doc... Nicolas, Paris. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
