I'm totally new at this, but it's also my understand that the low-latency real-time kernel is more important for musicians, and for video work it's better to have 64 bit plain ubuntu. That's why I just took ubuntu studio off my system.
Ubuntu Studio is not 64 bit. Here's a review of ubuntu studio where I learend about this: ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.linux.org/dist/reviews/ubuntustudio.html The strength of Ubuntu Studio is audio and that's where this distribution puts the emphasis. It installs a low-latency kernel by default. This type of kernel is optimized for working with sound. Ubuntu Studio gives you the first rate sound editor Audacity, which is a must-have application for me. It also comes with a nice drum machine app called Hydrogen that I love playing around with, being a drummer myself. There are many sound applications here. In fact, Ubuntu Studio gives you enough of these to literally produce your own album. The only think it doesn't provide is the talent. ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.linux.com/feature/118141 Don't misunderstand: there are video and graphics applications in Ubuntu Studio, but they are standard fare available in almost any run-of-the-mill Linux distro. For graphics, the offerings are nice ones -- some of free software's best, such as Blender, Scribus, Inkscape, and Hugin. For video, the picture is less rosy. You get Kino, a capable (if not fancy) DV video editor; the less mature but similar editor PiTiVi; and if you can manage it, the aforementioned Cinelerra. This makes Ubuntu Studio about 80% pro audio, 10% graphics, and 10% video. I don't think that one can attribute this lopsidedness to a lack of interest in graphics and video; the situation is roughly the same in other "multimedia distros" like dyne:bolic and 64 Studio. Rather, it illustrates the state of multimedia on Linux: pro graphics is simple, pro audio is possible, and pro video ... well, it just doesn't exist yet. The long and the short of it is that if you are a musician or audio enthusiast, Ubuntu Studio is a big win: you get a stable, tested, preconfigured source for the high-end audio components you need to do serious recording and editing, and you get it built upon one of today's most popular, well-supported mainstream distros. The millions of vanilla Ubuntu users on 32-bit Intel machines can add the Ubuntu Studio goodness with a simple cut-and-paste APT repository addition (instructions are at ubuntustudio.org) -- a far nicer alternative than installing a separate distro. <snip> Graphics and video mavens have far less to gain by adopting Ubuntu Studio. You don't need to compile a new kernel or switch X subsystems to enable pro graphics, but Ubuntu Studio doesn't even offer you minor improvements. Let's be cutting edge: on the graphics front, include some experimental stuff like Krita's wet paint mixing, natural media simulation, or Photoshop filter support with PSPI. At the very least, give us GIMP 2.3. ____________________________________________________________________ hope that helps. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:08:36 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CinCV] Realtime or Low Latency Ker-what? - help in choosing > a distro > > leandro ribeiro wrote: >> So my questions are: is Linux Mint a bad choice to run Cinelerra (and >> other video editing software)? Is Ubuntu Studio a good choice? What on >> earth is a Low Latency or Realtime kernel and why should I cross the >> street to say hello to it? >> > Hi Leandro, > > I'm not aware of any advantage of running a realtime kernel for video > work, It is designed more for audio recording applications. > I could be wrong and if someone else thinks that it would be better to > run cinelerra with a realtime kernel you could probably isntall the > kernel from ubuntu as > Mint is based on ubuntu. Ubuntu has a realtime kernel in the regular > repository. If that doesn't work you can just install Ubuntustudio. It's > very user friendly. > The realtime kernel is designed to give priority to audio processes. As > I said before, I doubt that you need it to run cinelerra. > > Good Luck, > Arthur >> Thanks :) >> Leandro >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cinelerra mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
