Am 30.12.2011 17:46, schrieb Michael Wisniewski: > ... but the thing that was very (extremely) painful was the speed of it. > This was during rendering, exporting, and editing.
> We're going to be filming more home movies fairly soon, and I'd like to > start back up again, but use Cinelerra instead because it's open source. > I haven't tried it yet, but I don't want to be left with a bad taste in > my mouth again because of delays during the process. Hello Michael, to summarise my own experience on that behalf: Don't expect too much! If we expect what "every reasonable person would guess" regarding the abilities of our today's computers, the reality will be a huge disappointment. Commercial (semi professional) systems aren't there yet, consumer grade systems are crippled and treat the user like an idiot (and don't deliver the performance that would be possible, theoretically). Open source tools deliver some quite impressive technological value and give you abilities on par with professional solutions, but really require you to get deeply involved into technical details. Several of us were able to create themselves a fairly well working tool chain, composed of several applications and a lot of scripts and specially crafted parameters and pipelines. For editing HD video, I'd definitively go for "proxy editing". Cinelerra works fairly well on not-too large image sizes (and not too large project sizes either). After having learned the quirks, it's indeed possible to do a first draft edit quickly, almost like flying. BUT: inevitably at some point you need to go into fine tuning or polishing your results, and at at some point you're bound to switch to full resolution material, because "proxy editing" is in no way seamlessly integrated. (Actually it's rather a hack). At that point, I regularly find myself thrown back into that working rhythm of - watch yesterday's preview render carefully - do some adjustments blindly - render overnight. A render farm may reduce that "over night" into, say, 1-2 hours. Cheers, Hermann V _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
