Georg,
Hijacking the thread, my apologies. I'd written the article for
Linux.com when y'all decided to work on Lumiera a while ago. I hadn't
heard any updates, granted I haven't subscribed to any of the threads
on it, so it is great to hear y'all are still at it! How is it going?
Tom King
Quoting Kurt Georg Hooss <[email protected]>:
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
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