Hi, Open Movie Editor is my Video Editor, there are many like it, but this one is mine. ;-)
I am the primary developer of the Open Movie Editor, and I've been following this thread for a little while. I will now try to answer all your questions. On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 21:19 +0100, mark carter wrote: > A cinelerra beater, perhaps?? Open Movie Editor was never designed to do what cinelerra does, it tries to solve a different problem, and this can be roughly described as follows: If a friend of mine wants to cut a little movie, and has not much experience, I want to be able to give him a tool that works, without explaining stuff for more than 5 minutes. And that's about it, if it happens to beat cinelerra one day, it will be purely by accident. 2007/8/7, mark carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have yet to test it out, but from what I've seen, it seems quite > impressive that one guy could come what appears to be quite a long way > in a short space of time. It was possible because I am standing on the shoulders of giants. Actually the libquicktime library that I use was forked from cinelerras quicktime4linux. And there are couple of other examples, where I reuse Free and Open Source Software-Components to speed up my development. I am very picky about what tools and libs I use, this is why I can focus and concentrate on my goals. 2007/8/9, Claude Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I got it up and running with not too much effort on a Fedora 7 P4 > 2.8 GHz w/ 1 GB ram box -- of a large assortment of media I have > here on this machine, the only thing it could load and play was > a dvx file; it didn't like any .mpg .avi or .wmv files (not that > I would expect the latter, nor the .avi for that matter, > depending on what was inside it), but the mpg files come from a > broadcast news source, and play on almost anything. So, that was > a surprise. Not much in the way of other features, either. The > dvx file played only very haltingly, jerking forward every few > frames. I do agree that there is a problem. Open Movie Editor supports a very wide range of formats, BUT all the dependencies have to be installed in the right way, especially ffmpeg (libavcodec/libavformat) is important to make more formats available. I am also aware that for HD Editing and Playback on a reasonable machine further optimizations are necessary. Internally every video is handled in RGB space, which requires additional resources when decoding, eventually this can be handled differently. Other than that, I know that there are OpenGL extensions to accelerate video textures, but I am not to fond of extensions unless I am 100% sure that they work on EVERY machine with OpenGL available. 2007/8/9, Raffaella Traniello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is Open Movie Editor a piece of software we can recommend to consumers? Considering that Open Movie Editor is young and that it had not much time to mature, I recommend against it. It can be a daunting task to install the required dependencies. If it is preinstalled it should work though, however there are some open ends that I would like to fix before distributing it to a general public. The first thing that comes to my mind are FOOLPROOF Export/Encoding Presets. 2007/8/8, mark carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Perhaps people would be positively disposed for me to contact other > projects to see if there's a common ground. It'll probably be difficult, > though, as each has their own ideas. I read somewhere that the developer > of Open Movie Editor (terrible name - not very Googleable) was not > especially interested in co-operative work. He seemed happy enough to go > his own way. I _AM_ interested in cooperation, but maybe I do have a different idea about cooperation, than others. I do prefer to cooperate in a very loosely coupled way, where individual groups collaborate through the use of common and stable interfaces. For example, I am a little active in the gmerlin(gavl), libquicktime and frei0r mailinglists. I provide bug-reports and every know and then a little patch. Have fun, -Richard -- Are you teaching the What and the How but without the Why and the When? _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
