Douglas.
Nick Rout wrote:
Where to start...
kino http://kino.schirmacher.de/ is qute promising, but immature. it really only deals with .dv files, ie the raw files you get off a digital video camera. I do not have a digital video camera, i have an analog one with a capture card.
I have managed to record some tv in dv format using kino's v4l interface, but not enough to come to an informed decision about its usefulness. You can do some cool things, but there are not many effects built in.
cinelerra http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 is designed as a professional system backed up by a large render farm. Again i have only played with short clips and not in too much depth. Lack of a decent howto is a problem. It goes ok on my machine, but as i say, only short clips so far. as with kino a lot of playing and guesswork on how to actually acheive something yet.
Forgot to mention Main Actor http://www.mainconcept.com/index_flash.shtml a commercial package with a linux demo available (rpm). It is quite nice too.
I recently got a bigger hard drive, and also a iomega buz card (built in mpeg compression), so when I get a wet weekend I may have another go at all this.
i have yet to try lives http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/ but would like to give it a whirl.
I am afraid I have to say that none of these packages is a patch on the only software I will really reboot to windows for (at home) these days - namely Vegas Video. It rocks, but of course it costs.
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:34:32 +1300 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nick, you listed Cinellerra & Kino among your apps. How have you got on with these?
The Cinellerra home-page recommends a dual 2GHz Athlon with 512Mb RAM. Your machine doesn't have these specs. Any problems with this?
Douglas.
