Just to tell about my experience w/ cinelerra: I use cinelerra in my Athlon 2400+ w/ 512Mb of RAM, in a slackware 12.2 system and I always could end up my projects in a nice way.
One thing I always recommend to people is to never overwrite the project xml file, in a way that if something goes wrong w/ the xml, you can pick the latest good one. Another tricky stuff is the buggy OSS emulation of the linux kernel - sometimes when using the OSS driver in cinelerra, A/V looses sync, so always use ALSA when using ALSA driver system (4Front OSS 4.1 works perfect). Also the video driver can mess things up, so pick the one that works for you, and let the "Play every frame" box not marked. We also use cinelerra in our TV Station and it works ok. Cinelerra is great, is just a matter on how to deal w/ it's bugs. As you mentioned SGI/IRIX, did anybody tried compiling cinelerra in Irix? bye, rafael diniz > 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 _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
