Herman Robak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 08 Jan 2007: > > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 04:28 +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: >> > >> > To introduce myself, I'm a newbie on Cinelerra and NLE, and I have a lot >> > to learn and ask about. > > Velkommen! >
Takk for det :-) > > HDV can be made to work nicely, if you have a fast computer. > Well, at home I still use my old K7 PC with 512 Mb RAM as a multiboot Linux distro/Win2k "lab machine", which of course won't work other than simple tests of Cinelerra just as now. As a initial subsriber of "Linuxmagasinet", I also read with interest your articles about DV editing and HDV editing with Cinelerra previous last year. To play HDV you suggested about a 2GHz CPU dependent of architechture and required to edit HDV with Cinelerra a very fast CPU i.e a 3.4 GHz Zeon. Well, a few months ago at my office I've provided a Dell Precision 490 workstation with a 'Woodcrest' single Xeon 5160/3.0 GHz CPU and 2 GB RAM (not unlike a dual CPU PowerMac hardware). From tests I read, the Xeon 5160/3 GHz CPU should be even faster than Xeon 5000/3.73 GHz (Dempsey) due to faster 1366 MHz FSB (vs 1066) and 4 MB shared L2 Cache. Beside 5160 is running cooler with TDP 85W vs 130W. This is my fast opportinity Linux workstation I think I will use for the heaviest HDV work later. I also plan to replace my home PC, when Intels upcoming Santa Rosa faster laptop platform with better graphics become available later this year as expected. Beside, I just noticed the recent announced PCI Express graphic for laptops from Asus. Much of video and multimedia interests looks therefore to happend on laptops soon..... >> > The first file fx7.m2t was reported wasn't recognized by Cinelerra, the >> > second file fx7.mpg was apparantly loaded, I think. > > Cinelerra inspects the file extension, and recognises .mpg and .mpeg. > It can handle .m2t files nicely, if only the file name ends with .mpg > or .mpeg. Use "mv" to rename the file, or create a symbolic link to > it. > Yes, I just renamed the file extension from .m2t to .mpg in Nautilus. Then the file could be loaded into Cinelerra's Program window, and yes, found it again in Resources below Media (Miha). There I right clicked on then thumbnail and selected View from the menu. What afterwards happened or more correct not happened, was that the first image slowly arised from green to a clear image in the Viewer. I pushed the Forward button |> to start the "play" forward function. However the video didn't start playing, just the first image stayed continuous visible. I also tried another .mpg file and the same happened again. Here is a link to screen shot of the situation: http://bildr.no/view/30563 I wonder therefore if it is impossible to play mpg files in Cinelerra caused by my old and slow K7 hardware, ATI Rage 128RF and no 3D enabled? Or can this be caused by some wrong or missing configuration, settings that should be changed. At first I used the default (custom) Setting>format, then I tried 1080i and PAL without any change with regards to start playing the file. I will add that I haven't been able to configure my Creative SB Audigy LS sound card on openSUSE 10.2 yet, due to a reported current bug (worked in 10.1). Therefore the Gnome media players neither won't start any video. > If you want some hand-holding wrt capturing HDV over firewire > on Linux, just ask! :-) (I have an HDV camera, too) > Yes, of course. I'm thankful to get everything that can help me getting started. Although I haven't currently provided a HDV camcorder yet, it is just a question of time before I can evaluate the best (price) offer. But it is no secret that I'm going towards the new Sony HDR-FX7 handycam model, which is promised available here within the end of January. FX7 is a descendant of "FX1", which I read you own;) Mobility and lower weight (1,5kg), 20x optical zoom with optical image stabilizator Steady shot, low CMOS power requirements and from here max 8 hour largest battery recording time, are among what have been most important for me. However, its low light 4 lux limit should wishible have been better like the 3 lux limit for on FX1 or as good as on Canon A1, which both also have some more professional features. HDV clips: In case they might be of interest to test for other on this list, here are links to jpgs and to download some current HDV m2t/mpg video clips recorded with the mentioned HDV camcorders: http://www.videomaker.com/blog/2006/11/179-sony-hdr-fx7-footage http://www.fxsupport.de/12.html http://www.fxsupport.de/13.html http://www.fxsupport.de/14.html http://www.fxsupport.de/15.html > > Committers: If I recall correctly, a patch was submitted recently > to recognise the .m2t extension. Has that been merged in by now? > > -- > Herman Robak > Terje J. Hanssen _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
