Hi from Sri Lanka I am Mettavihari here and just to give you a bit of confidence I like to say that I have been using Cinelerra for the last 6 years and I am wondering how ever to shift over to another software like kdenlive. It just does not look the way I am used to now.
I presently run 2 Television Channels using Cinelerra on 16 work stations. But I must say that this field is always changing. For years in the past and for years to go we will be broadcasting in SD format. Now many places in the world are switching over to HD so I also have a learning curve to go. The next channel that I have bought equipment for is planned for HD. This will be all new for me. For me it is partly a religious decision to work with Linux and partly an economic decision. But let me make it clear that I could not afford the cost of software on 16 editing benches. I have produced videos for some of the local Channels and I always find that their machines has been full of viruses when I go to the offices. This is one thing that we are free of in Linux. Good luck with your work. Mettavihari On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Pierre <p.autourdugl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Murray, > > Thank you for the welcome. > > I do not know "Pinnacle Studio" and in fact, until recently did not know > any editing software ... Because it is not me who performed my editing > before. As a director I always worked with professional editors and it is > they who knew the secrets of these techniques and art. > > But now that I decided to sit in the chair as the editor and learn the > ropes, I decided to focus on free software (such as Cinelerra). I is not > a religion ... so if I must use proprietary software, I will adjust ... but > I want to try to focus on the free option first. > > Cinelerra does seem would be the most professional software for Linux and > this is why I chose it. I have the intension to learn to master it and > discover all possibilities, provided of course, that I can solve the > problem of desynchronization that afflicts him and that his non ability to > manage and mantain timecode that my camera records (HVR-Z1U) does not > become too big a problem for my editing work. > > But if I had to finally abandon Cinelerra, I probably start by exploring > "Lightworks" which should soon have a version for Linux. > > I'm pretty confident that Cinelerra or otherwise ... Lightworks are > professional editing software suitable for my needs and expectations. But > I have a concern in terms of special effects software, I doubt that there > is now an alternative, free and easy, to "Adobe After Effects". There may > be "Blender", but his learning seems really complex for my needs ... > > Regarding ffmpeg, it is out of the question for me to use the command > line... especially since there are several good gui to make it more > user-friendly ... One of them is "EKD" ( > http://ekd.tuxfamily.org/index.php/Accueil/AccueilEnglish) which is very > versatile, especially in its SVN form (development). > > Pierre > > > Le 2013-01-24 16:27, Murray Strome a écrit : > > Bonjour Pierre, > > Although I have been following the list for quite some time, I feel like a > complete novice. I hope to follow along with what you learn, and how you do > things so that I might be able to migrate completely from Windows to LINUX. > Cinelerra appears to have all the power that is required, but I am still > baffled by lots of things. Although not Cinelerra itself, I have found that > (even though it is command line) I can do lots of good things with ffmpeg, > and indeed, I need it to merge the audio and video streams from Cinelerra > outputs. > > I have been using Pinnacle Studio for years to do my video editing in > Windows. It requires quite a paradigm shift to go from it to Cinelerra. > From what I have seen of the Adobe video editors, I think it would be less > of a learning curve than it is to move from Pinnacle. The general overall > look and feel of Cinelerra looks a LOT like the Adobe editors. > > In my opinion, the very best feature of the Pinnacle (bought out by Avid a > few years ago, and now owned by Corel) is the ease of navigating in the > time line. I am not sure how they have done it, but it is so fast and easy > to move the cursor to within a couple of frames of the place I want to do a > cut, so that it takes only a few more seconds to adjust frame by frame to > the exact spot. I have tried many, many video editing software packages and > have never found one as good as Pinnacle. > > That said, Cinelerra definitely has a lot more power -- I just haven't > really succeeded in learning how to use it yet. > > I wish you good luck in becoming an expert with it, and I hope I may be > able to follow your journey to success so that I can also eventually become > more adept at using this. > > Murray > PS despite a few good things about the Pinnacle products, there support > has deteriorated to the point where it is virtually useless! MS > > PPS I am STRICTLY an amateur, and only do video work for the enjoyment of > my family and friends. > > --- On *Wed, 1/23/13, Pierre > <p.autourdugl...@gmail.com><p.autourdugl...@gmail.com> > * wrote: > > > From: Pierre <p.autourdugl...@gmail.com> <p.autourdugl...@gmail.com> > Subject: [CinCV] I'll introduce myself... > To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no > Received: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 8:29 AM > > Hello, > > As I'm new on your list I'll introduce myself, my name is Pierre Paiement > and I live in Quebec (Canada). > > Video editing is all new to me, I'm a beginner... I mean... running the > installation on my own is all new to me... I was a professional independent > director in television for many years, but I always worked with > professional editors. > > I recently started several small projects for artists or local non-profit > organizations. I've shot with my own camera (HVR-Z1U) and I intend, as far > as possible, to make all the post-production with free software. > > Even if I produced with limited resources, I hope to reach video documents > of professional quality that will not betray their humble origins... I put > in the efforts, for the rest we'll see ... > > I use Linux for several years and for 12 months it has become my almost > exclusive OS. But my knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu) is limited; I'm just a > user not a programmer, the command line is not my preferred medium of > expression, and without a gui I feel like a DOP without his lightmeter... > > I have a lot of fun to discover Linux and Cinelerra... also, many things > to learn. > > I'm already involved in one of your current discussion: "[CinCV] > synchronization problem in editing" > http://www.mail-archive.com/cinelerra@skolelinux.no/msg13895.html. I am the > "<http://www.mail-archive.com/cinelerra@skolelinux.no/msg13895.html.Iamthe>Pierre" > for which Haldun ALTAN kindly forward the request for help, as I could not > get on your list. > > Over the exchange I will intervene in the course of this ongoing > discussion and perhaps in other eventually... > > Pierre > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no <http://mc/compose?to=Cinelerra@skolelinux.no> > https://lists.skolelinux.org/listinfo/cinelerra > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing > listCinelerra@skolelinux.nohttps://lists.skolelinux.org/listinfo/cinelerra > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no > https://lists.skolelinux.org/listinfo/cinelerra > > -- Streaming video from http://dharmavahini.tv
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