On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:56 +0000, Dan Weatherill wrote: > Hi all, > I'm not a developer but I describe myself as a computer "power user". I > run suse 10.3 and as a composer and small film studio engineer, I use an > NLE all the time. Recently we have taken a plunge and started using > cinelerra on our professional projects. It took me a couple of months to > get cinelerra stable and a workflow sorted, but now it's as solid as a > rock. I second that, Dan. I have spent a couple years learning the software, working out installation bugs and rendering minutiae and I'm happy to say the Cinelerra is extremely solid on my Fedora 7, x86-64 box. My real life experience seems to bear out HV's contention that the system is more stable on 64-bit: http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra7.php3
> When I use containered dv format I have never had a crash. Never. > This is in 5 hour editing sessions with compositing and effects and > everything. So, for me personally the stability issues that everyone > says plague cinelerra haven't happened. With my current system, I have only had crashes when I've done something wrong (like write to a file system that is not there or is full) or when a feature is not fully implemented or when I've hit a known bug (like importing DV). > Now here's the thing. There's one feature which would for me improve > cinelerra massively and which I would think isn't hard to do. Here it > is: allow folders in the resources window. Have clips in folders. > > The second thing would be to implement some kind of meta-clip > functionality. I agree. These would be nice additions. > Finally, an easier render in place functionality would be great. I.e I > have a load of effects on a track, I want to see my movie full speed for > a while. I can click a button and the selected clip is rendered through > effects etc then plonked back in the timeline where it came from. Then > later I can "unfreeze' this bit to make more edits to it. Background rendering seems to work best only if you have a VERY powerful machine and/or a renderfarm. cheers, scott _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
