Bonjour Pierre,
Although I have been following the list for quite some time, I feel like a
complete novice. I hope to follow along with what you learn, and how you do
things so that I might be able to migrate completely from Windows to LINUX.
Cinelerra appears to have all the power that is required, but I am still
baffled by lots of things. Although not Cinelerra itself, I have found that
(even though it is command line) I can do lots of good things with ffmpeg, and
indeed, I need it to merge the audio and video streams from Cinelerra outputs.
I have been using Pinnacle Studio for years to do my video editing in Windows.
It requires quite a paradigm shift to go from it to Cinelerra. From what I have
seen of the Adobe video editors, I think it would be less of a learning curve
than it is to move from Pinnacle. The general overall look and feel of
Cinelerra looks a LOT like the Adobe editors.
In my opinion, the very best feature of the Pinnacle (bought out by Avid a few
years ago, and now owned by Corel) is the ease of navigating in the time line.
I am not sure how they have done it, but it is so fast and easy to move the
cursor to within a couple of frames of the place I want to do a cut, so that it
takes only a few more seconds to adjust frame by frame to the exact spot. I
have tried many, many video editing software packages and have never found one
as good as Pinnacle.
That said, Cinelerra definitely has a lot more power -- I just haven't really
succeeded in learning how to use it yet.
I wish you good luck in becoming an expert with it, and I hope I may be able to
follow your journey to success so that I can also eventually become more adept
at using this.
Murray
PS despite a few good things about the Pinnacle products, there support has
deteriorated to the point where it is virtually useless! MS
PPS I am STRICTLY an amateur, and only do video work for the enjoyment of my
family and friends.
--- On Wed, 1/23/13, Pierre <p.autourdugl...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Pierre <p.autourdugl...@gmail.com>
Subject: [CinCV] I'll introduce myself...
To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no
Received: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 8:29 AM
Hello,
As I'm new on
your list I'll introduce myself, my name is Pierre Paiement and I
live in Quebec (Canada).
Video editing is all new to me, I'm a beginner... I mean...
running the installation on my own is all new to me...
I was a professional independent director in television for many
years, but I always worked with professional editors.
I
recently started several small projects for artists or local
non-profit organizations. I've shot with my own camera (HVR-Z1U)
and
I intend, as far as possible, to make all the post-production with
free software.
Even if I produced with limited resources, I
hope to reach video documents of professional quality that will
not
betray their humble origins... I put in the efforts, for the rest
we'll see ...
I use Linux for several years and for 12 months
it has become my almost exclusive OS. But my knowledge of Linux
(Ubuntu) is limited; I'm just a user not a programmer, the command
line is not my preferred medium of expression, and without a gui I
feel like a DOP without his lightmeter...
I have a lot of
fun to discover Linux and Cinelerra... also, many things to
learn.
I'm already involved in one of your current discussion:
"[CinCV] synchronization problem in editing"
http://www.mail-archive.com/cinelerra@skolelinux.no/msg13895.html.
I am the "Pierre" for which Haldun ALTAN kindly forward the
request for help, as I could not get on your list.
Over the
exchange I will intervene in the course of this ongoing discussion
and perhaps in other eventually...
Pierre
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