Wow, this thread has garnered quite some response. For the record, I've been using Cinelerra occasionally (since I don't have much video work recently) on an HP xw9300 workstation (2x Dual-core Opteron with 2GB RAM) running Debian Lenny (now Squeeze) AMD64 kernel & packages. Using the AMD64 Cinelerra package from Valentina Messeri's repo and debian-multimedia's AMD64 repo to fill in the gaps.
I've been quite pleased with Cinelerra on this system. Yes there are a couple bugs with some effects, and you have to save often (thankfully it's one keystroke (s) so I do it after almost every successful edit) but once you get into that habit, it's very usable. (I usually start Cinelerra from a command prompt so I can 1) see why it crashed if it does and 2) restart it with two keystrokes (cursor up & Enter.)) Heroine Virtual even says that Cinelerra is more stable in 64-bit than 32. In fact, I purchased the workstation I did due to their system requirements. I'm also coming from Adobe Premiere 4.2 on SGI/IRIX, and if you want to talk about buggy...I had so many workarounds for bugs on that thing it was a large project just to do a slide show video (having to render stills differently than motion due to artifacts, then trying to join them later in a way that didn't mess up the field order, with really only Motion JPEG-A Quicktime as a choice since all the other codecs were buggy in one way or another! Oy!) What took me a day or more on that takes me minutes on Cinelerra, so I don't mind the occasional crash, especially with the console output to see what went wrong. My 2c. Sincerely, Sean M. Pappalardo <<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------->> This E-Mail message has been scanned for viruses and cleared by >>SmartMail<< from Smarter Technology, Inc. <<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------->> _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
