"Bradley A. Hare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason van Gumster wrote: > > I can't be the only one who's done successful complex editing in > > Cinelerra. I do fair amount of of work, professionally and > > independently, and while I'll admit Cinelerra isn't perfect, it > > certainly does the job for me on the projects I choose to use it on. > > Could you describe these in a little more detail, e.g. source formats > project size, hardware config etc. ?? Some people seem to have better > luck than others with Cinelerra, knowing why would probably be > helpful for everyone - regardless of their current opinion.
Sure thing. The bulk of the stuff I do is in the under 10-minute range; demo reels, montages, animations, and television commercials. While these projects are certainly not long-format, they can end up with some pretty complex track structure (classic television commercial problem: cram 10 minutes of information into 30-60 seconds ;). I regularly use Cinelerra on one of three machines: an eight-year-old box with an Athlon XP 2500+, a laptop with a hyperthreaded 3GHz P4, and another laptop with a dual core Turion64. All of these machines have about a Gig of RAM and I often edit to an external firewire hard drive. Two run Gentoo and one runs Ubuntu. So I don't exactly work on machines that are computational powerhouses. I edit png sequences (from Blender), DV (usually wrapped in Quicktime or avi), and uncompressed (again, usually wrapped). I recently edited the SIGGRAPH Demo Reel for Blender using Cinelerra (though I did use ffmpeg and Blender for some file conversion for a few formats that Cinelerra didn't play nice with... a step I would rather have skipped). The demo reel posed some interesting challenges because, not only did I get some pretty esoteric codecs as submissions, not everyone submitted their work in the same resolution and framerate. Once I had the video files in "nice" codecs, Cinelerra actually handled the resolutions and framerates fairly well. It even did well with a different project that I rendered from Blender to be in NTSC anamorphic widescreen. Graham's post is right on target. I like to think of Cinelerra as more idiosyncratic than outright buggy. There are a number of things that it does very well... and there are some things that require you to do a bit of dancing to get it to work right. But once you muscle your way through that, there are quite a few possibilities open to you. -Fweeb _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
