erm... i was referring to that guy who occupied the linuxvideo.org domain... and the question of how to get it back to where it belongs...
On Friday 19 December 2008 12:22:59 Fred Williams wrote: > On December 19, 2008 05:03:26 am Kurt Georg Hooss wrote: > > sure you are right. > > a more practical question is how to deal with this. > > appeal to common sense? explain the benefits of open sources? > > or just let him go with it? > > Yeah, for newbies, it's a bit of a messy jungle of apps that don't do > what is needed, and you have different apps for different steps of > the process. Part of the problem is all the diferent formats for > files and things like "Save" not saving the video, but rather saving > the project. > It looks and feel like it's rather amateurish code to them. A big > enhancement would be to get the capture function working in > Cinelerra. It doesn't inspire confidence to say, "Oh that doesn't > work yet." > I remember when I was making a DVD last summer that there was some > real help and support from this group and when it really worked for > me, that was a great experience. Yeah, it would be great to have > everything under one roof so users could capture, edit, render and > burn DVDs all under one interface with an intuitive menu structure. > Then it starts to look attractive. > In the mean time, I think hand-holding is good and directing people > to appropiate documentation is a big help. For me emphasising that > while there is a lot to learn, the up side is that you get to learn > it and the knowledge is power. However I am often motivated by > different things compared with other people. For the general public > I suspect they want things as simple as possible and the computer > does all the work. -- dr. kurt georg hooss kurts film / schoepfung & wandel breite strasse 6-8, d-23552 luebeck kurts-film.de _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
