Hi Hermann. Sorry for the late reply, due to change of Service Provider (in Italy that means weeks with no Internet DSL connection).
Thanks for your 2 cents. They had a great value for me. They kept me trying. Many thanks indeed. Ciao Raffaella On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 00:15 +0200, Ichthyostega wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi Raffaella, > > just want to put in my € 0.02... > > > Raffaella Traniello schrieb: > > 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? > > > > When it comes down to the raw processing of video, I don't see any real > deficiencies of Cinelerra (compared with Premiere). I can do everything > I can imagine. > Cinelerra /has/ deficiencies with respect to "accessability of features". > And it is lacking support for the organisation of larger projects > (many clips, several bins, separate timeline for each segment of a project, > keywords, searching for clips etc.) > > I want two point out two *advantages* of Cinelerra, > which are very important to me: > > 1) at the time I worked with Premiere, I always felt queasy because I > couldn't get final definitive answers to what "it" does for a given > function. Of course, there are communities for premiere as well, but > there I only got lots of opinions and guessings. For Cinelerra this > is quite different, because there is the source code and if unsure, > I can look and see what "it" is doing. And if I can't (because I am > lacking special knowledge), then there are others in the community > which can. > 2) The session files are plain text. I can check them into my private > Subversion, the format is self-documenting, I can repair them with > a simple text editor, if necessary. > > Hermann Vosseler > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFE8MgeZbZrB6HelLIRAjvEAJ9Q/Im3HjIs+mqA5qQaJYdcgK5qLACfS+j8 > QXDbAx5rvA0AP3omka3oemY= > =jbQ8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
