Thanks Hermann for your ideas and support. I'm discovering now that Cinelerra new users need the technical support of the community as well as the psychological help. I moved to Linux for ideological reasons, but I underestimated the hard work beginners need. At times I'm disheartened and envy Adobe Premiere users, at times I'm touched by the willingness and power of the Community and I feel that I love it and I won't go back. I don't know exactly how I feel now. Probably I need to get rid of the provocative questions that obstruct my fragile passionate Italian brain:
Is there in this Community people that use Cinelerra for producing movies to be seen in Theatre as a job? Is Adobe Premiere a very expensive perfectly working software, easy to learn, with clear instructions manual? Is it an excellent product made using a lot of money and resouces? Is Cinelerra a worse functioning software (because made by volunteers) preferable because free open source software with community support? Are the advantages of Cinelerra over Adobe Premiere "social-economical- ideological" or also technical? Grazie Raffaella > 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 -- 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... Hermann V. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
