Hello Murray,
Thank you for the welcome.
I do not know "Pinnacle Studio" and in fact, until recently did not know
any editing software ... Because it is not me who performed my editing
before. As a director I always worked with professional editors and it
is they who knew the secrets of these techniques and art.
But now that I decided to sit in the chair as the editor and learn the
ropes, I decided to focus on free software (such as Cinelerra). I is not
a religion ... so if I must use proprietary software, I will adjust ...
but I want to try to focus on the free option first.
Cinelerra does seem would be the most professional software for Linux
and this is why I chose it. I have the intension to learn to master it
and discover all possibilities, provided of course, that I can solve the
problem of desynchronization that afflicts him and that his non ability
to manage and mantain timecode that my camera records (HVR-Z1U) does not
become too big a problem for my editing work.
But if I had to finally abandon Cinelerra, I probably start by exploring
"Lightworks" which should soon have a version for Linux.
I'm pretty confident that Cinelerra or otherwise ... Lightworks are
professional editing software suitable for my needs and expectations.
But I have a concern in terms of special effects software, I doubt that
there is now an alternative, free and easy, to "Adobe After Effects".
There may be "Blender", but his learning seems really complex for my
needs ...
Regarding ffmpeg, it is out of the question for me to use the command
line... especially since there are several good gui to make it more
user-friendly ... One of them is "EKD"
(http://ekd.tuxfamily.org/index.php/Accueil/AccueilEnglish) which is
very versatile, especially in its SVN form (development).
Pierre
Le 2013-01-24 16:27, Murray Strome a écrit :
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 /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Pierre <[email protected]>
Subject: [CinCV] I'll introduce myself...
To: [email protected]
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/[email protected]/msg13895.html.
I am the "
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg13895.html.Iamthe>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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