Hi from Sri Lanka
I am Mettavihari here and just to give you a bit of confidence I like
to say that I have been using Cinelerra for the last 6 years and I am
wondering how ever to shift over to another software like kdenlive. It
just does not look the way I am used to now.
I presently run 2 Television Channels using Cinelerra on 16 work stations.
But I must say that this field is always changing.
For years in the past and for years to go we will be broadcasting in
SD format.
Now many places in the world are switching over to HD so I also have a
learning curve to go.
The next channel that I have bought equipment for is planned for HD.
This will be all new for me.
For me it is partly a religious decision to work with Linux and partly
an economic decision.
But let me make it clear that I could not afford the cost of software
on 16 editing benches.
I have produced videos for some of the local Channels and I always
find that their machines has been full of viruses when I go to the
offices. This is one thing that we are free of in Linux.
Good luck with your work.
Mettavihari
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Pierre <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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]>
<mailto:[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Pierre <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [CinCV] I'll introduce myself...
To: [email protected] <mailto:[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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