(inline) On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Linux Lingam <[email protected]> wrote:
> let me clear my throat and say it out loud: > > for the moment, linux sucks when it comes to a video-edit software for > ordinary folks that is at par, or exceeds, MoviekMaker, iMovie, Adobe > Premiere, and much less, FinalCut Express, and its more muscular > siblings. > It also does not have anything at par with After Effects, or Shake. > > cinerellea, lumeire, kino, et al, aren't there. > unfortunately, true :( - none of them are really usable by "normal human beings" yet .. although (a bit unrelated), do check out the live mixing tools out there - some of them are pretty damn good .. > *however* if you don't mind an alternative approach, > the vieo-edit part in blender3d can get you diong some cool stuff, sorry i completely forgot about blender, as i haven't really used it much - but yes, from what i hear and see - its possible to do very professional looking stuff with it .. not so great for the use case of just wanting to throw together a bunch of videos you downloaded from the internet or something though - for that, honestly, avidemux and command line tools really do do the job quite well, if you're a command-line type person .. i know there's a few people working on video editting projects for linux - lets hope something good comes out soon -- afraid all this is so mired in the patent problems with non-free codecs, etc. - its hard to paint a clear picture of who's at fault, really .. anyway - best of luck .. -Sanjay > if you don't mind a learning curve more arduous > than wearing stilettos to an expedition to mount everest. > > > > regards > niyam > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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