As usual, nice caps. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:19 PM, marquitux caballero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> Last point I want to make: one of the HUGE problems with free softwa= > > re > >>>> is the fact that it doesn't care much for some "details" as > >>>> proprietary software. Take Adobe Photoshop as an example: they don'= > > t > >>>> just have people who programs in their teams, they have photographe= > > rs > >>>> that just sit there and say "this is important, this is irrelevant, > >>>> photographers work this way, photographers work that way". I've bee= > > n > >>>> for a while in The Gimp forums, where the ruling philosophy is "If = > > you > >>>> can't contribute with code, don't bug us with Gimp should have this > >>>> and Gimp should have that" - and that explains why so few > >>>> photographers use The Gimp. > > I think this idea is beoing successfully implemented in blender 3D and they > don´t cry fro money as i see, they are on the release of the second open > movie and the apricot videogame, many animators USING THE SOFT ... needed > features, come on! YOUR NEED tells you what is a MUST DO feature, and blender > is growing FAST. > > > Unfortunely, I add the following: if a video-editing (or > > photo-editing) software is not good enough for the necessities of > > video-editors (or photo-editors), what's the point in making it in the > > first place? > > > > I believe the problem comes because the development core team usually > > consists ONLY of coders - who do video or photography in their spare > > spare time and think they know what's needed. The feature requests > > become overwelming because the usual course of action is "coders > > develop, they upload the product, and then the community tells them > > what they think". This is, I think, a paradigm mistake - we are > > confusing "community feature requests" with "working together with > > users". > > The development team should have professional (or advanced amateur) > > users, so they can really work directly with coders to get a tool that > > really answers the necessities of a given group. > > many IMPORTANT features already exists in many open editing softs... > CINELERRA,KDENLIVE, BLENDER3D/SEQUENCER, PITIVI, OPENMOVIEEDITOR and even > JAHSHAKA, but you don´t have all those features in 1 soft... is it possible > that sequencing onlu exists in blender sequencer? and kdenlive has a easy to > follow GUI? jahshaka has those nice 3D tools, cinelerra has the animated > masking, HD support, etc... when all that is goint to be in 1 place? maybe > blender3Dsequencer/nodeeditor or OPENMOVIEEDITOR with nodes, may achieve many > changes faster than other tools, because they focus in simplicity. > > how come VIDEO EDITING is a NON-PROFITABLE bussiness to code? that only > happends in GNU software, you could create great tools compatible to the > market standards and make comercial versions or special plugins and MAKE > MONEY, but you are so focussed in NOT MKING MONEY out of it that you can´t > see that a NLE is used FOR MAKE MONEY, for amateurs KINO RULES, you don´t > need nothing else, it´s easy, fast, and HOME, fi you want go PRO, make it > compatible with existing codecs (MATROX, CANOPUS, PINNACLE) and leave the > door open to comercial plugins like MAINACTOR MPEG4/AVCHD CODECS and stuff > like that, and MATROX HARDWARE BASED CARDS compatibility (SDK). > > there are many ways of keeping this project funding, and keep it open but > remember, this is not an app to wrtite text, or a messenger or somethign like > that, if you want to make a PRO NLE, FOCUS ON THAT and who is going to use > it... many will use it for free, but if this works, I WOULD PAY FOR > COMPATIBLE CODECS AND EXTRA FEATURES in cinelerra,if that option extists. > > Cheers. > Marquitux. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Ingresá ya a MSN en Concierto y disfrutá los recitales en vivo de tus > artistas favoritos. > http://msninconcert.msn.com/music/archive/es-la/archive.aspx > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra >
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