-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Raffaella Traniello schrieb: > When I prewiew my work on the compositor I see very dirty junctions, not > smooth at all, with > sound and video breaks. Is it the final quality? I'm starting now to put > video effects on my > project. I've heard about loss of video quality, but I'm quite shocked at > seeing it.
Hello Raffaella, I don't quite understand what you denote by "dirty junctions". Do you mean transitions? Are you using the HV Version of cinellerra 2.0? There was a severe problem with transitions which made the normal dissolve transition almost useless. It caused flickering and arbritrary colors in the image during the transition (as if the images were solarized). This has been fixed in the CV-Version and definitively convinced me to switch over at the beginning of this year. As long as you don't render and re-introduce the rendered footage into your project, there should be no generational quality loss, as all plugins and effects are calculated on-the-fly based on your original footage. Of course, some plugins can introduce artifactes (e.g. banding) for some specific parameter values, but this is another storry. > Is Cinelerra really a professional software? Do you use it for high quality > movies? This question is somewhat difficult to answer. If you mean with »professional« == "I paid a huge amount of mony and now I just have to press the red button and automagically everything settles down, so I can catch the tightest deadline" then -- cinelerra pobably is not professional software ;-) I am using it with the goal to produce high quality material. If you know to avoid some possible glitches and pitfalls (and many of these are simple a natural consequence of the way images and sound are processed) and -- morover -- figure out how to get things working as you expect, then cinelerra can deliver all the quality you want > I think I'm scared.... :-) I can tell you: I felt much more scared all the time I used Premiere; there, I always had the feeling to be at the mercy of some big anonymous entity and as if my being able to do what I inted and invent really doesn't count... > Did anyone ever compared Cinelerra to Adobe Premiere Pro? Guess such comparision would be a very uneven comparison, PPro being fostered by one of the bigest graphics/media companies, sold to a comparatively high price level -- think at all the resources they can throw in... Rather, the intersting question is: why are people not just shouting and running away form cinelerra? The answer is: it actually /is/ working for them, it helps us getting done what we can imagine. You can tell this from looking at this community: you see new names pop up, people asking the first, shy newbee questions. Then you see the same people asking more and more advanced questions, some of which you yourself couldn't even imagine of, and at some point you see the same people helping others knowledgeably... Cheers, Hermann V. ...sitting here in Munich, Germany late at night, eager to try out the newest XaraLX 0.7 .... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE4SFhZbZrB6HelLIRAjexAJwItwYYxqj9lB66mDt5PMaswJ4YdgCfW24H UrP4QH7wKRuvBq17rB4gyHs= =L9yH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
