Hermann Vosseler wrote:
I don'tconsider it right to invent a new "killer feature" every half year and I don't like
cinelerra fighting a competitive war against other video editing products, because
I want it to stay what it is: a working tool for advanced users, enabling
almost unlimited editing possibilities if you know what you want and how to achieve it.
I hope you were not deriving that from what I said about competitive
analysis. I guess I should have been less cryptic about what I was
getting at.
The craft of editing has been around for about 100 years now, video
editing for about 30-40 years (if you go back to the razor blade days).
The expectations for what an editor should do are well established and
are reflected in the feature sets of "competing" products.
As I said before, I believe that Cinelerra has everything needed, it
just needs to be reliable.
If we are talking about "advanced" vs "beginning" users there already
is a project out there (Kino) which would fulfill the needs of beginners
(as a sort of open source iMovie). As for Cinellera, it certainly
has not been promoted as a beginners editor. A quick look at the
Heroine website would make you think that Cinellera was giving
Avid a run for the money.
I agree with you completely - Cinelerra needs working, not
"Killer" features. Whether or not this can be done with
out some redesign of the architecture is a valid question.
That is a hard thing to hear, especially if you've spent
more than a few nights and weekends trying to patch this
thing up. It would also mean a complete separation from
Heroine Virtual.
At some point you have to ask two questions: what am I
trying to achieve, and how close am I to getting there.
I do not think that a civilized debate on
those two points would do this project any harm.
I should have said several thank your's to the people
maintaining CinCVS and this list. I do not think my interest in
this project would have lasted very long if these resources
were not available. After reading this list I realized that
there were people out there who could get it to compile, and
there were people out there actually using it. That left
me with few excuses for not getting my own copy working.
I still can't play an m2t clip (720p) without crashes, but
maybe if I stop whining and get back to gdb I'll figure it
out....
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