>>>> Last point I want to make: one of the HUGE problems with free softwa= > re >>>> is the fact that it doesn't care much for some "details" as >>>> proprietary software. Take Adobe Photoshop as an example: they don'= > t >>>> just have people who programs in their teams, they have photographe= > rs >>>> that just sit there and say "this is important, this is irrelevant, >>>> photographers work this way, photographers work that way". I've bee= > n >>>> for a while in The Gimp forums, where the ruling philosophy is "If = > you >>>> can't contribute with code, don't bug us with Gimp should have this >>>> and Gimp should have that" - and that explains why so few >>>> photographers use The Gimp.
I think this idea is beoing successfully implemented in blender 3D and they don´t cry fro money as i see, they are on the release of the second open movie and the apricot videogame, many animators USING THE SOFT ... needed features, come on! YOUR NEED tells you what is a MUST DO feature, and blender is growing FAST. > Unfortunely, I add the following: if a video-editing (or > photo-editing) software is not good enough for the necessities of > video-editors (or photo-editors), what's the point in making it in the > first place? > > I believe the problem comes because the development core team usually > consists ONLY of coders - who do video or photography in their spare > spare time and think they know what's needed. The feature requests > become overwelming because the usual course of action is "coders > develop, they upload the product, and then the community tells them > what they think". This is, I think, a paradigm mistake - we are > confusing "community feature requests" with "working together with > users". > The development team should have professional (or advanced amateur) > users, so they can really work directly with coders to get a tool that > really answers the necessities of a given group. many IMPORTANT features already exists in many open editing softs... CINELERRA,KDENLIVE, BLENDER3D/SEQUENCER, PITIVI, OPENMOVIEEDITOR and even JAHSHAKA, but you don´t have all those features in 1 soft... is it possible that sequencing onlu exists in blender sequencer? and kdenlive has a easy to follow GUI? jahshaka has those nice 3D tools, cinelerra has the animated masking, HD support, etc... when all that is goint to be in 1 place? maybe blender3Dsequencer/nodeeditor or OPENMOVIEEDITOR with nodes, may achieve many changes faster than other tools, because they focus in simplicity. how come VIDEO EDITING is a NON-PROFITABLE bussiness to code? that only happends in GNU software, you could create great tools compatible to the market standards and make comercial versions or special plugins and MAKE MONEY, but you are so focussed in NOT MKING MONEY out of it that you can´t see that a NLE is used FOR MAKE MONEY, for amateurs KINO RULES, you don´t need nothing else, it´s easy, fast, and HOME, fi you want go PRO, make it compatible with existing codecs (MATROX, CANOPUS, PINNACLE) and leave the door open to comercial plugins like MAINACTOR MPEG4/AVCHD CODECS and stuff like that, and MATROX HARDWARE BASED CARDS compatibility (SDK). there are many ways of keeping this project funding, and keep it open but remember, this is not an app to wrtite text, or a messenger or somethign like that, if you want to make a PRO NLE, FOCUS ON THAT and who is going to use it... many will use it for free, but if this works, I WOULD PAY FOR COMPATIBLE CODECS AND EXTRA FEATURES in cinelerra,if that option extists. Cheers. Marquitux. _________________________________________________________________ Ingresá ya a MSN en Concierto y disfrutá los recitales en vivo de tus artistas favoritos. http://msninconcert.msn.com/music/archive/es-la/archive.aspx _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
