Well folks, you have convinced me that Cinelerra is not for the someone
like me that just wants to make a video. I have been struggling with
it for some time now and I have some video that is pretty rough and
has no sound. There is no program for Linux that is any less trouble to
use or it won't do much of anything I want to do. I have an external
hard drive that I can't get permission to write to for one obscure
reason or another. Now I can't find the file that I made from cinelerra
so I have nothing and cinelerra somehow did not save the video. I have
worked on it for a couple of days but it did save the audio that I have
all the copies of I need. I was unable to write it to a dvd for a lack
of certain dependencies which I installed, but still no luck.
The real problem is that I am not interested in code, programs or
anything else having to do with computers other than doing what I want
to do. A while back I made some movies by splicing film I shot years
ago. It was much easier and FASTER than learning all that a person
needs to know about programs and such in order to make video. Looked
pretty good too!
My first computer was an old laptop with windows 3.5 it was
perfect, everything more that has been added has been of little use to me.
Any way, I am pretty well convinced that Linux holds nothing for me
that I am willing to devote the needed time to.
Doug
David Kletzli wrote:
On Thursday 09 August 2007 11:46, Yama Ploskonka wrote:
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The problem with Cine and a bunch of other stuff around X is that there
just isn't the kind of simple and dirty help that us basic users need.
The button or menu option-to-wiki does this. it can also open that;
these are the default settings for this feature; this is what happens if
you mess with those settings. Mousing over would simply show the name
of the whatever (this pretty much exist) but you'd have an option to go
right from there to a popup connection to the wiki.
Currently man wikis do exist, but the interface is not humane, you need
to jump to and fro, sometimes go hunting in the night to figure the
connection between a particular feature on the program and its
decription in the manual.
Hey, this would be such a breakthrough in human interface for so much
prosumer soft! I should patent it. just kidding. :-)
Yama
A couple more things to think about with this...
How do you handle the case where someone is trying to get help, and is not
on-line? If you make *everything* online, then you are going to be brutal to
those who may not be able to have access to an on-line connection.
Also, and I don't know how much of a problem this would be, wikis can be a
moving target. Nothing that can't be handled, I think, but you'd have to
make sure you put some thought into both sides of the connection.
Dave
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