Daniel Harris wrote:
If I was a professional video editor or I had to justify time or
money spent on a project, honestly, I wouldnt touch it with a barge pole.
Uhhm, that depends on HOW professional you are.
Yes, it took me quite some time until I got things working with
Cinelerra, and learned how not to crash it every second minute. On the
other hand, from what I've seen, every single video-related tool I've
ever encountered had its quirks. Some had more, some had less. It's as
if video came from hell, and the tools were inspired by the devil. Or at
least by the Tower of Babel. So I really wonder if other, "professional
tools" don't driver their users mad.
But there are a few advantages with an open source tool:
1. Open source tools tend to have an open format for their metadata. The
EDL is in plain XML, which makes it possible to edit it by hand. That
has become useful every now and then, even when Cinelerra was fine.
2. When something goes wrong, it's nearly impossible to do anything
about that with most closed-source tools.
3. If you don't have a desired effect built in, you can write it
yourself. That requires a few days of work, but compared with the time
spent on editing, that can be a reasonable effort.
4. Continuity. Open-source tools tend not to just close and start over
from a different place, so that you must learn the new tool over again.
But ehhm... It looks like Cinelerra has just exactly that: Stopped
developing and switched to Lumiera.
Since I'm not a developer myself, I can only hope that Lumiera will be a
truly improved version, and also the one to continue for several years.
And yes, it's sad that pretty serious bugs (such as the one I submitted
myself more than a year ago,
http://bugs.cinelerra.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459) are not handled. But
that's the nature of free software: There is just as much support as the
amount of people ready to dedicate themselves to it.
Eli
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