På Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:21:15 +0200, skrev [email protected]
<[email protected]>:
Many thanks for your answer.
Not at the moment. One of the contributors is working on some rather invasive
rewrites,
and has done so for a long time. But we have not gathered a new list of low
hanging
fruit to be picked, and rolled into the next minor release.
That sounds very good.
:-) For a regular user that would sound rather disappointing.
On the other hand, if you are seeking oppurtunities, it may sound promising.
You will find that responses like "I have that problem, too" or "here is
a workaround" are far more frequent than "I'll fix that!"
That is true. Perhaps there are only to few people able to fix things because
of the lack of programming skills. I have the luck to be able to
program in C and some C++. But that was always a hobby. However I will freshup
my progamming skills and will hopefully in some time be
able to look at the source code of Cinelerra too. Perhaps my skills will never
fit to support the development but we will see.
You may be able to fix some technical bugs (see below) yourself then,
after you have dug through Cinelerra's source code a few times.
What are your needs, as a potential Cinelerra user?
I only want Cinelerra to do the things right. When there is a function than it
should work like expected.
As an example: I want to make an export in another windows video editing
program. I set all settings to mpeg and 16:9.
I got an mpeg file but the file is 4:3. That are the things that makes me
unhappy.
Aaawww. I have seen that aspect ratio is handled for only a few formats
during rendering. Ogg/Theora, raw DV, and oddly enough the YUV4MPEG pipe
output.
And the aspect ratio logic is rather hackish where it exists at all.
Before you even consider fixing that, do read up on the quirks of
pixel aspect ratio, display aspect ratio, "active area" and overscan.
Many, MANY get it wrong. And you are expected to interoperate with
some of them, or be told that YOU are wrong.
http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/conversion/#faq
So far I read Cinelerra has it problems too but these are known and there are
workarounds. So I do not try to go to the codec
jungle. I convert my video files to uncompressed RGB and work than with these
files. I am not sure if that works everys time but until
now that is very fast during playback and very fast during export on my
computer. Harddrives are big and cheap so I can work in that way.
If I have done all my editing I export all to uncompressed RGB and use than
other tools to convert the material.
Such workarounds slow down the workflow. Particulary so with HD video.
If you're not editing a movie, but a newsclip or something else with a
tight deadline, slowness is baaad.
--
Herman Robak
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