Hi list,
Months after months, I keep fighting to keep me from quitting using
Cinelerra, because I spend more time trying to find workarounds and
accepting all its crashes, because once in a while, I still manage to
achieve some success, but believe me, this is tough.
I am now able to use motion tracking, stabilization, chromakey, trivial
masking, PIP, and effects. This took me almost 6 months because I also
have a job and a family to deal with :)
This post is here to ask a general question, and a precise one :
I'm using Ubuntu Oneiric and Cinelerra CV 2.1.5-0.16.
I'm experiencing many many crashes and I am a very very patient man.
* General question : Are the different others release of Cinelerra more
stable, and do they deserve I try to install them. According to what
I've understood, my other choice may be :
- HV's version, but have to compile
- Last CV from SVN (or git, didn't understand), and I could also try to
compile it
And most of it : would that give me a more stable Cinelerra.
My low skills do not pretend to need last features, but stability is
crucial.
* Precise question : I think I understood the main problem came from the
input files, and I'm starting to spend much time on pre-converting my
rushes before feeding the beast. On the video point of view, I seem to
have a good result. But sound keeps being a problem.
When I read this table :
http://cinelerra.org/docs/wiki/doku.php?id=supported_file_formats
I'm frightened to see that crashes is the most frequent word.
Nowadays I'm converting my input files with ffmpeg :
-vcodec mjpeg -vtag MJPG for the video
and
-acodec pcm_s16le
or
-acodec libmp3lame
for the sound
In both cases, the playback in the viewer instantly crashes Cinelerra.
I read 759 To of Google answer webpages about the best ways to feed
Cinelerra, and my results are varying (weird : the converted files
should all work or fail)...
(I wrote my own notes : http://jms.ecarnot.net/doku.php?id=montagevideo)
The table above shows mp3 is not a good option for input files. Ok. More
generally, what am I missing, what should I do best, what are your advices?
I strongly want to keep using Cinelerra, but today, I need a little help.
--
Nicolas Ecarnot
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