Take a look at ArtistX it's debian based and has everything you need and then some. It also runs as a live disk. That way you can see if you are having any hardware issues before installing to hard drive. http://www.artistx.org/site2/
If you want to build from scratch I wrote a script awhile back (I'm not a programer) that works fairly well installing the entire debian multimedia repo with keys etc. Takes forever though. http://reggaecobras.com/linuxvideo/ I would echo Christian in that you should stay away from hd and concentrate on SD as you are working with 32 bit machines. ciao Daniel On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Christian Thaeter <c...@pipapo.org> wrote: > Kurt Georg Hooss wrote: > > sorry if a bit off-topic, hope not too far off. > > starting in september, i have to teach video production > > in a literature class 12 (20 to 35 students around 18 years old). > > > > obviously, an open-source production pipeline is best suited > > (thanks raffa & christian for arguments). the school seems ready > > to install everything necessary on a number of p4 (32bit) machines. > I hope they have at least 1GB memory, better more. > > > > > up to now, all machines can boot windows from a central server, > > and i have seen there is a (not-working) ubuntu test installation too > > which they said could be improved or replaced by something reasonable. > > > > ubuntu studio looks promising but has no cinelerra in it, > > so some number of things must be additionally installed anyway. > > is there any other distro that you can recommend for the purpose? > > > > for example, i have good experience with suse 10.3 (kde 3.5, quite > stable), > > however i had to install cin+codecs and lots of things from packman, > > but all that is fairly reproducible so i will probably go for that. > > I have debian lenny + debian-multimedia which has cinelerra packaged. I > didnt even checked if thats the newest version, prolly not, but it works > resonable well for me. > > > > so far, the school has no camera. they are ready to get some > > and asked me to tell them what i need. so, what do you think i should > order? > > how many? and what model? please advise. > > as soon uwiki becomes useable I would like to make a open hardware > exchange plattform. Just some structured wiki pages where people can > announce what unused hardware they can offer (and for what conditions) > and on the other side what people would like to have. That all voluntary > and just as platform to come together, no commercial intent and no ebay > like pseudo auction. > > Otherwise, I guess raffa can give the best advice on hardware, you > certainly dont need 25 cameras, 1-2 reasonable cheap consumer models > would prolly do. Considering that you can't have the best possible > hardware, I'd also suggest to work with SD (PAL/DV) footage only, dont > even think about HD. > > You'll certainly need quite some harddisk space to archive your footage. > Some central server with a lot of space (I really recommend raid for > disk redundancy here) would do this with as much hd space as you can > afford (thinking about 1TB 3x500GB disks as software raid5 have a good > price point currently, maybe more when you can afford it), then your > classroom machines may use older/smaller/existing disks prolly anything > >80GB will work for smaller projects. For performance reasons the > students likely have to copy their footage to their machines, or you use > some local caching filesystem, AFS comes in mind here, but needs someone > who knows how to administrate it. > > Dunno if this suggestions help, a lot things are quite variable > depending on what exactly you want to do and if this courses will hold > more often and thus investment in hardware and software (administration) > will make sense in the long run. > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra >
