cinelerra is basically Bcast2000 redone IMHO I will look at kdenlive i guess! :-) thx. ________________________________________ From: Hans-Christoph Steiner [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:07 AM To: Pagano, Patrick Cc: James Dunn; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PD] unix and (bad) companies.
How about kdenlive or cinelerra? I've been working a bit with kdelive and it seems pretty straightforward and even usable ;) .hc On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Pagano, Patrick wrote: > the achilles heel for linux in my opinion is still video editing. > I've tried everything from Broadcast2000 to Lives with no luck > bueller? > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of > James Dunn [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PD] unix and (bad) companies. > > I love linux and ubuntu but the driver support is a bit of an issue. > I recently upgraded my mother's computer to 10.04 and now her Dell > V505 all-in-one printer doesn't work. I got no (helpful) response > from emailing Dell. > Secondly on a pd related problem, I am still running 8.04 because > the proprietary ATI driver (no longer maintained) will only run on > the old version of xorg and the open source driver doesn't have 3D > support for Gem... > > James > > Quoth servando barreiro, on 22/09/10 12:06: > > HI there.. > > I just want to "share" my experiences with Os´s.. > > I started in the nineties with a windows machine, I tried 95, 98, > millenium, nt, xp.... > It hanged really frequently (20 times in a day w cad software..) so > I assumed that as a normal function state from the machine.. > > At some point I tried beOS and I found it great but I couldn´t do > anything w it.. > > years later, I discovered that computers with the fruit thing and I > was really amazed, not just because of the stabilty (but still one > or two hangs per day with os 9.2), also because I could do audio in > real-time with them.. (well, coming from that windows nightmare, > even a gameboy was fascinating..) > > Then I got one.. and until the day, I´ve been using all the Os´s and > also tried almost all the hardware that was/is in the market. > > My experience with linux (about 4 years ago, ethic/curiosity ) > started very slow, but definitely in an ascendent curve of > satisfaction & admiration.. > > Nowadays to code and to travel, I use a small thinkpad with ubuntu > 10 and the experience is just fantastic.. It´s actually so good > that I´m starting to hate all the mac shits.. Because when you > know where linux cames from and who works on it, you can understand > that sometimes you have to put energy on your side to look for a > driver or whatever (Not the case at all w ubu 10). > > What I can´t understand.... Is that this big companies (micr/appl) > with hundred or "thousands" of good programmers working for them, > are still doing crap... (seems that they are focusing energies in > making money & trying to protect his soft/hard instead of making > good code...) > > yesterday I formatted my mac and I installed the last system > (10.6 ). There´s a known bug on it that not just doesn´t connect > to internet, it also keeps sending packets to the router until the > router stops working,,,, (???). > > I had to reset the router from the linux and download one by one the > system updates for the mac. This bug is known since 10.6.0, I > already have the 10.6.4 and the bug it´s still not solved > completely.,.. (???????) > > This just shows that It doesn´t matter how many hundreds of related > posts you do in the official apple forums & related.. apple just don > ´t give a shit about the problems of the users.... (specially if > your hardware it´s not brand new...). > > The ubuntu forums are far more clear and helpful than that,, > > About windows, I will not complain anymore... (not neccesary), but > I still "understand" people that uses it, because there´s people > that doesn´t care about computers (even when they are working w > them..) > > what I do, when I´m teaching a workshop Is to carry one or two usb > sticks with a live distro (pure dyne / openartist ) and invite the > people to try a "truly" operative system.. > > many of my friends, they have switched to Linux (at least > partially..) and they are happy w it.. (that makes me happy too..). > > If the trajectories of the operative systems evolutions follow as > they are already, It wouldn´t sound strange to me that in some > years, the amount of linux users (pure or mixed) will increase > massively. > > To finish, I would just like to thank to all the linux developers / > contributors for his hard work to make this incredibly operative > system. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
