I noticed artistx did not list cinelerra in their online documentation but it is included. D
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Daniel Jircik <djir...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
