Re: RE:Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
IMO kde libs and qt libs aren't an issue. Rui's apps such as QjackCtl already need QT and if you wish to use e.g. K3b, you also have to install kde libs. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: RE:Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 12:45 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: I think there is a reason it is hard to find software that can do this stuff, not enough people want it or the hardware is just not there yet. I did find a thread where someone was looking for such stuff, the responses were all that it was

Re: OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 22:27 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: helper to deal with the cable One of the jobs I did in my live :D. While camera mechanic and stands where very handy, still the cables where an issue. Cable puller is a good job to get in contact with the video and audio business. I still

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-09 Thread Stuart McQuade
You're right. There's aren't any specific prices for the Sony Pro range on their website, but there are plenty of Sony resellers who offer prices. You can get a rough idea of the prices from this site: creativevideo.co.uk. On 6 Aug 2012, at 17:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS: For film Werner

RE: RE:Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-09 Thread Luke Kuhn
video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers) Message-ID: 95c0a5ca5c6a54386517b20162b35678.squir...@ssl.ovenwerks.net Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 clip By live switching I mean having two or more video streams coming in direct from cameras

RE:Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-08 Thread Len Ovens
On Wed, August 8, 2012 8:03 am, Luke Kuhn wrote: I didn't know LiVES could do anything like that, as it has to import all video files before use. Kdenlive (in repo, and which I use for making If LiVES has to import first, then the feature of taking live streams was just another way to import

Re: OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-08 Thread Len Ovens
On Tue, August 7, 2012 3:08 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 14:13 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: Our RCA studio cameras were a bit bigger, but the peds and controls were similar. Control room layout was much the same too. At that time bigger usually caused a better quality. The funny

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:14 +0300, Stuart McQuade wrote: You're right. There's aren't any specific prices for the Sony Pro range on their website, but there are plenty of Sony resellers who offer prices. You can get a rough idea of the prices from this site: creativevideo.co.uk. So Camcorders

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Len Ovens
On Tue, August 7, 2012 8:14 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I remember similar prices for the Sony Betacam, 15DM. Betamax already was pro in the beginning 80s, but only Umatic high-band was pro too. I started my carrier in the 80s, at the video studio of the University Essen in the age of 17/18

OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 14:13 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: Our RCA studio cameras were a bit bigger, but the peds and controls were similar. Control room layout was much the same too. At that time bigger usually caused a better quality. The funny thing is, that zooming and sharpness was operated

Re: OT: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 00:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Perhaps we should completely keep it off-list at some point, for the moment I only add an OT to the subject. I like to read such OTs. I learned by reading yours and I leaned a lot reading experiences of other engineers, my favorite is

Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-07 Thread Len Ovens
On Tue, August 7, 2012 7:13 am, Emmet Hikory wrote: Len Ovens wrote: I don't find SW to handle 3 or more input streams and do on the fly switching. (I think we used closer to 7 or 8 streams... though our switchers had more.. they had access to every stream in the building) Assuming

Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 15:13 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: Comments? Since Linux suffers of no or no serious NLE video cut, there shouldn't be too much video packages included to an install media. Regarding to soundtracks, resp. audio productions for videos, I would welcome http://rg42.org/wiki/a3vtl

Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Regarding to a German post Lives seems not to run with 12.04 and there are packages for Packages are available for the following releases: Ubuntu 10.04: 1.4.6-1~getdeb1 Ubuntu 10.10: 1.4.2-1~getdeb1 Ubuntu 9.04: 1.1.5-1~getdeb1 Ubuntu 9.10: 1.2.1-1~getdeb1 Ubuntu 11.04: 1.4.6-1~getdeb1 at

Re: live video switching (was: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers)

2012-08-07 Thread Emmet Hikory
Len Ovens wrote: Took a while to find any docs for it... in the doc directory of the src package. freemix is designed to do live showing switching of videos stored as file on the computer like a VJ. I don't know if it can connect to a gstream opened by another app or not. But it is not

Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread C. F. Howlett
A little insight into the whole photo processing theme Linux Tools for Serious Photographershttp://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/ -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread Scott Lavender
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:03 AM, C. F. Howlett seattlec...@gmail.com wrote: A little insight into the whole photo processing theme Linux Tools for Serious Photographershttp://scribblesandsnaps.com/linux-tools-for-serious-photographers/ -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 21:03 +0800, C. F. Howlett wrote: A little insight into the whole photo processing theme Linux Tools for Serious Photographers Interesting. I'm missing apps to scan photographic negatives, slides and photos on paper. Dunno if this is possible with getting good quality

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread Mike Holstein
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 21:03 +0800, C. F. Howlett wrote: A little insight into the whole photo processing theme Linux Tools for Serious Photographers Interesting. I'm missing apps to scan photographic

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: For film Werner Nekes (I sometimes made audio for his films) did (perhaps still does) use a digital version of the Sony Betacam. There are no prices for professional Sony cameras in the Internet available :D. From Canon to Hasseblad there are already prices from 300,-€ to 3,-€ and my

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread Mike Holstein
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: PS: For film Werner Nekes (I sometimes made audio for his films) did (perhaps still does) use a digital version of the Sony Betacam. There are no prices for professional Sony cameras in the Internet available :D.

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:01 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: most photography pro's around here have gone digital, and do pretty much the same as the audio pro's... they use digital because its easy and the results are good enough now... they have the analog gear if you want to pay for them to use

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:20 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: im not sure what the question is.. if its do pros use digital, then im saying, the few pros i know here that do it for a living have and use digital, and they say that they use digital almost exclusively these days... i can ask them what

Re: Linux Tools for Serious Photographers

2012-08-06 Thread Len Ovens
On Mon, August 6, 2012 8:37 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Everybody claims digital is better and everybody claims the artist today are less good. And I always say, the artists today are very good, but much of the technology is weak. However, I shut up ;). I would put it a bit different... I don't