On 02/15/2011 12:03 AM, Nicola Ferralis wrote:
Hi,
In the past few weeks, there has been a very interesting discussion in
this forum about the long term future of Cinelerra. This discussion
made me wonder if a short-term roadmap of Cinelerra really exists. In
particular I wonder if there is any set decision for a version 2.1.7
(and 2.1.8, 2.2, etc)? More in general, what is the main
feature/timeframe/else that usually is set for a new stability
release? Is the release process similar to what Google deploys for
Chrome (release often minor updates)?
I'd like to hear some thoughts about this. As the maintainer of the
Cinelerra-ppa for Ubuntu, I wonder if instead of syncing only official
releases, I should instead sync with git every time a commit is
pushed. In this latter case, I would think a bump in version should be
adopted.
Thanks,
Nicola
I don't know what needs to be done to Cinelerra but it definitely needs
some work. I get along with her very well as long as I am doing video.
Here I find no real problems. It is sound and syncing that makes me
pull my hair, as does titles. I get beautiful video and then add my
music and as long as I use wave sound files that goes well. They are
usually only a few files. Voice over may be twenty to thirty files.
They slide up and down the time lines and get all out of sync and some
times the credits at the end wind up in the title page. Some times I
completely loose sound files.
I have come to the conclusion that Cinelerra is probably the best
video editor around and the worst audio editor there is.
My solution is to make all my video clips, do my video with sound(
music and video sound) then I make my title clip and my credits clip
render them and add them in after all video is done. After this I take
my rendered video to Openshot video editor and add on my voice over
clips. They stay very stable there.
I am sure this is a hokey way to do video, but it works for me
though it is more time consuming than it needs to be. It may be that
instead of dragging and dropping files I might instead cut and paste,
this might help some of the problem?? I plan to play with that some.
It seems that as long as my video is less than about 6 minuets all
goes well but the longer and more complicated the voice over gets, the
worse the problems get. I have yet to make a single video 15 minutes
long without resorting to taking it to Openshot to put in voice over and
render. Doug
I find I am much less frustrated working this way.
