First of all I'm extremely pleased to hear the news. High hopes. That said I was just reading the comments over on DIgg.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Creators_Of_VLC_Are_Going_To_Release_A_Video_Editor While I absolutely love VLC I have to agree with the commenter that points out that it's not exactly known for having the best user interface. Beyond the basic navigation in fact it's UI is downright cryptic. Even it's playlist functions are completely disfunctional. Don't even get me started on the preferences. Then again what VLC has done is some amazing reverse engineering all types of cryptic codecs and hacking them into a user interface so they all play and are controlled consistently. If nothing else the fact that VLC is creating a sort of API... or at least a code base with which to edit and transcode these myriad of codecs will gradually trickle into other video editors. It may just be the thing that has been holding back open source video editing at large. BTW, there's a screen cast on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vdwNsvbZI BTW, is anyone involved in Android development? I just recently attended the first ever Mobile Monday meeting in Ann Arbor, MI. I'm thinking Android is a chance to fullfill much of the promise and vision where the old Nokia N-series and more recently the i-Phone failed. In many ways we're already there... the ability to shoot video and post it directly to the web somewhere and "twitter" it... as a means of everyday communication with your friends and family. But there is still much to be desired in the fluidity of everyday one to many video communications. Peace, -Mike On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/12/23/2013219/VLC-Team-Announces-Video-Editor-In-the-Works > > Those of you who use VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) know how > awesome this open source video player is. You can throw any video into > it and it'll play. > We got a glimpse of their video editor the Open Video Conference this > summer, but I always questioned if they would finish it. The great > news is that they'll probably port it to mac and PC....so it wont just > be a linux solution. > > If VLC completes this project, we could have a free, FOSS video editor > that runs on mac AND pc. It'll hopefully handle all codecs (by > breaking the "law" of course). Creators can start collaborating > regardless of what computer they have. This is the dream. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
