Joseph, Thank you for dedicating time and effort. To share, use, and contribute is certainly in accord with the spirit of open-source software. Your style is short and concise which is very good too.
Still, one might argue that in addition to the extensive manual there is already a lot of experience from many users available online. Even if your book is going to be very good, will people find & read it? Adding from-scratch monographs to that grand heap of works might actually rather increase confusion to the newcomer, and that even before they get into reading what you have worked out. I am pretty sure that most of the information you have collected is already there in the manual. Please consider editing the manual to make those things easier to find. You know you can, it is a wiki. You could, for example, try to make it easier for beginners by condensing your experience into nice readable introductions to the appropriate chapters. Give it to people where they seek it. Otherwise, you might know that a successor to cinelerra is under heavy development. Documentation work is needed there too. If you want to do something ahead of the crowd, contribute to Lumiera. check it out: www.lumiera.org cheers georg On Saturday 15 May 2010 16:09:26 Joseph Miller wrote: > I have been using Cinelerra for probably a year now. The software is > excellent compared to other Linux video software, but the learning curve > was pretty steep. The manual online has a lot of information, but I > wasn't familiar with video editing concepts. I also had trouble with many > video formats. > > So anyways, I've started on a guide for an average Linux user to get up and > running with the software. I have so far the basics of installation, > importing, and rendering. I really want to get more people using this > software - my ulterior motive is that if more people are using it, the > development pace will pick up as more people are attracted to the project. > I hope that more developers would contribute their time with regard to > plugins and speed optimizations. > > Here is the guide i have so far. I will be adding to this in the coming > days and weeks. The next parts to add are basic editing maneuvers and > concepts such as clips, the viewer, etc. After that I plan to jump right > into video effects starting with the Motion effect. The Motion effect > seems to draw a lot of attention of people who've never used Cinelerra, > but it took me some time to figure out how to use it properly. I think > that the Motion effect and Selective Temporal Averaging is enough reason > to spend time learning to use this software. I'll go into other effects > and more advanced techniques after that. > > http://www.calcmaster.net/cinelerra/forgotten-guide/ > > -Joseph > -- dr. kurt georg hooß kurts film / schöpfung & wandel tel. +49-(0)451-3003-474 (fax: -333) www.schoepfung-und-wandel.de _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
