On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 10:53 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [...] > could you say what exactly sarai uses multimedia for?
The list at http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/CM_Multimedia is roughly in order of priority, namely: 1. Conversion between audio/video formats: This is only top- priority because it is of general utility, and I know what tools to use, and plan to build a small GUI front-end to facilitate the work. 2. Audio editing, and music sequencing: This is the immediate area of priority. The audio editing requirements are reasonably simple, and can probably be handled by FOSS. The other need right now is to be able to make a timeline that will allow music to be matched to a series of static images. I believe that this can be done by Blender, with a plugin. If this works, sequencing of music along with video would be the next point of interest. 3. Video editing: Something along the lines of at least Adobe Premiere Pro, but preferrably comparable to Final Cut Pro. I do not have enough knowledge in this area to even articulate possible requirements, but have to sit with the production people to get a feel for things. Cinelerra is something that might work, especially as I am told that it is similar to Adobe Premiere Pro. I installed it on my laptop, and worked through an introductory online tutorial, and while things worked fine, I am far from competent to judge quality, and usability in this area. 4. 3D/2D animation: This is not an immediate need, but I believe that people would use Blender, and come to like it once they get familiar with it. 5. Graphics: The needs are probably adequately met with GIMP, etc., but the common complaint is proper handling of CMYK. One of the other main areas that we are interested in is desktop publishing that handles Indian languages properly, which means something like Scribus, or, at a pinch, Omega (TeX). Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
