2011/11/20 Leandro Martins <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I would like to know where I could find information about people editing > feature films meant for theatrical release with Cinelerra. > > I'm ready for a little sweat when it comes to figure out and put together > the best machine to run it on. What worries me, though is whether the > software will be able to handle the task somehow easily. > > I try to use as much free software as possible not just for economic reasons > but to back the philosophy behind it. I would love to add Cinelerra to my > professional kit. > > Thanks a lot! > > Good work for you guys. >
Hi Leandro, What kind of workflow do you have? Are you shooting digital or film? Do you need to collaborate with post production houses? Separate offline and online edit? These questions are rather important, because I'm afraid to say that Cinelerra might not yet be there for heavy professional work. Why? The biggest problem I can see is the lack of support for good consistent handling of timecode. If, for example, you are going to do an offline edit with DV and later recapture footage from HDCAM according to an EDL in a post production house, it won't be too easy. Some other things to consider: - Cinelerra can be somewhat fickle when doing cuts. It isn't too difficult to get black frames between cuts if one isn't very careful. - You'll probably have to do quite many saves and backups. A LOT of saves and backups. - Codecs and file formats: Linux video does support many formats, at least decode them. How efficient it is when doing it is another question. - The UI doesn't really have too many guides for moving video around. Want to know how many frames you are dragging a clip forward or backwards? Want to lock video and audio together? Then Cinelerra isn't the tool you want. To sum it up: it can be done, but it won't be too enjoyable trip, at least if one has gotten used to many small but useful features present in professional software. Cinelerra is certainly at the moment the best Linux editing software, but unfortunately it doesn't mean that it would be the tool I'd select for important work. If you want to edit on Linux, you might be interested of Lightworks, which should be released as beta for Linux next month. Sorry to offer such a depressing view on Cinelerra -- I'm very much for open source movement and use linux as my main operating system, but at the moment it just isn't yet there if professional editing work is concerned. Best regards Heikk _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
