On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:31:12 +0200, mark carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 17:10 +1200, David McNab wrote:
I started out as a 'consumer' a couple of weeks ago as I was looking for
a Linux video editor.
I, too, am very new to it, and jsut beginning to "get" it. I just
discovered subtitling - no more separate programs for me in future. ;)
A thought: when you load a file in with iMovie, it actually "imports" it
- converting it into its own format (quicktime, or whatever).
I find this behaviour REALLY annoying, especially for the kind of work
I usually do; doing simple edits on very long recordings. If the computer
is up to it I will much prefer the editor to handle the native format, and
keep the "proxy" format as an _option_.
(BTW, Kino offers conversion to the only format it understands: DV.)
Some of the more serious Cinelerra users simply won't have the time to
wait for hours of conversion. They need to get started with as little
delay as possible.
That said, I am very much for finding a good lossless proxy format for
Cinelerra, and making sure it performs well.
Now, that
got me to thinking - if Cinelerra followed the same idea, that might be
quite good. It could have its own format. That format would be woefully
inefficient (hopefully not outrageously inefficient) as a storage
medium, but it would be excellent for what Cinelerra needs.
This conversion would either be lossy (recompression) or _extremely_
space consuming. But I think it is direly needed for HD video editing
on modest computers.
We already want "proxy" support to integrated; support for using a
copy which is faster (usually lower quality) for editing, switching
back to the original for the final render. It would be very useful,
and not terribly hard to implement.
--
Herman Robak
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