Sorry guys for my intromision but I want to say some general answer for that kind of questions what are asking this guy.
Yes there are a lot of applications but you can choose just a few for work and that is all. If you want to do a lot of different kind of works you need a lot of different applications too. But if you do some specific work you need some specific applications only. Try all what you want first, and later choose only a few that do all what you need. For example I edit video with Cinelerra. Export the edited video in two separate files: Video only in avi MJPEG, and Audio only in PCM WAV. Next I open that both with avidemux2 and encode with it. That is all, I have a finished video. Next if I want it in a DVD I use QDVDAuthor. That steps let me more flexibility. If you don't want to use avidemux2 (because you always want your videos encoded in only one kind of encoder) you just can create your own script that run ffmpeg, mencoder, or mpeg2enc, whathever you want to use to convert it automatically. The same for DVD if you only want one kind of DVD style you don't need QDVDAuthor to edit it one and one more time, you just can create one script that do it all using dvdauthor only. When you are ready with that you can forget about using a lot of applications, you only need to export your video/audio and run two scripts. That is not the most flexible (and perfect) solution but let you do the work and don't make you lost time using a lot of applications. Bye. On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:15:05 +0100, Ichthyostega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > schoappied schrieb: >> In this week I did my first video project on Linux. And besides the fact >> that >> there are a lot of possibilities and changes for linux video, there is >> still >> a long way to go imho. > >> I used for about 5 different apps to get something done (e.g. synchronize >> >> video and sound and get it on a dvd). I had to face apps who couldn't >> deal >> with certain files formats and apps which contains a lot of bugs, some >> come >> abroad after 5 hours work... > > you aren't alone! > >> Other apps where quite difficult to use, especially the powerful but >> difficult commandline apps. > > > Hi schoappied, > > yes, indeed, that sounds like a good proposal. Video handling on Linux > really could benefit from "one central place" to watch. And, probably, > this central place should not be tied to one of the applications or > developer camps. > >> I don't have much experience with video editing on Linux. But I read a >> couple >> of articles about it last week and it seems that linux video is not as >> good >> as it should be... especially not for newbies. > > Regarding developers, Richard Spindler started a mailing list called > "openvideo" and did a terrific job to bring together many of the core > developers of the various projects. Indeed, the situation has much changed > when compared to 2 or three years ago. We developers realized, there won't > be just one application, but we all share the same common problems and can > collaborate on the level of exchanging ideas, solution approaches or even > library solutions. But, I think I'll be speaking for many developers when > saying that my feeling is we have still some way to go and some hard work > to do in order to reach such a level of integration which could be titled > as "the next step for video on linux" > >> I think linux audio was in the same situation some years ago. I do work >> with >> linux audio, so I know that situation better. They started a consortium >> for >> linux audio users, developers etc. check www.linuxaudio.org > > Well, I think, having something comparable for video would be a good thing. > But it probably can't be initiated by the developers of a specific > application. > They are too much focussed on the technical problems (which are > exceptionally > challenging especially for video). And, moreover, I wouldn't be surprised > if > we see the formation of several "camps" in the near future, for example the > "ffmpegers", the "gstreamers", the "gmerliners" -- well, I am just just > conjecturing here! > > So bottom line is: I think such an initiative should be started from the > user's > side, i.e. by advanced, interested and open minded users. I wouldn't expect > the > developers to start such a site. We have more then enough things to tackle > sitting right in our code. :-) > >> I will send this email to the lists of Cinelerra, kdenlive, >> openmovieeditor >> and kino. I'll also post a message in some IRC chatchannels... > > Hehe, excuse my shameless plug, but guessing from this list it seems you > aren't > aware of http://Lumiera.org . But anyway, as Lumiera is very closely > related to > cinelerra, we lumiera devs are hanging out here too ;-) > > Thanks for bringing up this topic > > Hermann Vosseler > (aka "Ichthyo") > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJPDzZZbZrB6HelLIRAp69AKD3xe7UNV7bIbX/AphEsef9yLpRkwCgy54q > ZGwYxY7P311mBl+IhoV8wWE= > =QRJH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > -- Administrador de la red Cielo Aragua _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
