On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:59:01 +0100, marquitux caballero
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
now tell me, wich company you think would suport a software that can´t
fill its needs, actually, there are very CHEAP Windows based NLES, why
would they go LINUX/CINELERRA?
They won't. If they already use Windows or Mac, why should they?
I will certainly not try and convince anyone to switch to Linux to
do video editing. If that is what they want to do, they should stick
with whatever proprietary operating system they are currently on.
I LOVE cinelerra, and the icnredible features it has, but still I thinks
it can´t fill the editor´s needs fully, but what someone not-so open
minded like me would think? (oh some wired soft... i need to change the
whole platform, so I loose afterFX, and my favorite other apps because
they don´t run in wine... should i put money out there? they are not
making a NLE for prefessional, why should an invertor come to cinelerra?)
I don't see the relevance of that question. Cinelerra's purpose is not
to lure people away from Windows or OSX. At best, it can offer a reason
to _stay_ with Linux or FreeBSD.
Most Cinelerra users will likely be Linux users first and video editors
second (or rather third or fourth). Cinelerra doesn't stand a chance on
Windows or Mac. Forget about comparing with that. Many dedicated Linux
users do NOT care whether there are better programs on Windows. They want
the best Free Software there is on _Linux_. Right now, the most complete
video editing Free Software for Freenix (*BSD and Linux) is Cinelerra, like
it or not. To a video editing professional it may be very disappointing,
but to a "I only use Linux" user, it's all there is. Such a user will
rarely be a professional video editor.
Bottom line: Problems which face the coders themselves are most likely to
get addressed. They don't care about winning over the competition. They
don't care about converting video professionals into using Linux. They
care
about solving their own problems, and maybe their friends' problems, in
their
spare time. That time is often scarce.
That's how Free Software works. If that does not result in the kind of
software you need, you are free to purchase proprietary software which
_does_
fit your needs.
--
Herman Robak
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