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I am writing this post as a reminder of a mistake that I have made
several times. It's about the way I think when doing video and it has
caused me a lot of problems. I recently after not doing any editing for
a while tried to make a video directly from a DVD. I had forgotten that
Cinelerra only writes a program to make my video on the hard drive
appear different from the original in Cinelerra and subsequent copies
after rendering. I struggled with this for a week before it dawned on
me that I had to save the DVD to hard drive even though I knew this.
This whole idea is foriegn to anything in life that most of us are
accustomed to. If we want something different than what we have we
change it. We don't make demands that the thing replicate its self
differently according to our demands in some other reality.
This is so different that I think tutorials, should all shout this
ten times in bold type at frequent intervals. I think learning to think
this way is the hardest thing in video editing. Though I know it at some
level I continually forget it in the heat of the moment when editing or
trying to solve a problem. It is important when a problem arises that we
not think in terms of changing the video, because we are not doing that.
I think this Idea should be included at the bottom of all our posts
for the benefit of every newby to video editing. I have been doing
video on an amature basis about six years and still am able to think
wrongly about this, as I discovered this week. I really feel dumb,
dumb, dumb. Doug
