I feel quite good about Kdenlive, as of their .8 release. I think it's fine
for first timers and yes, it would help a lot with getting people to generate
video content. I've been using it in production at the production institute i
work at, and it's been great, and already i'm working on screencasts about
blender and emacs and anything else that inspires me.
In short, yes it's gotten good, and yes I think it can inspire users to do
cool stuff.
-- klaatu
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 10:23 -0400, Ben Williams wrote:
> no computer lab will be available but i can always make live DVDs for
> the participants to use with their computers so downloading will not be
> needed
Okay that would be fantastic. We might just need a 15-20 minute period
before class starts just to make sure everything runs smoothly. Or maybe
push the workshop time to be 3.5 hours to allow for some software issue
resolution time up-front.
> I think I can say Emily will be an easy approval especially if she is
> commited to doing a workshop
Okay cool.
> myself i am up in the air about KDEnlive vs Scribus which do you think
> would be the best to the first time users (and what would help them
> become contributors faster?)
I don't know about kdenlive because I haven't had much luck using it in
the past; Scribus tends to be crashy (and at least for me, totally
broken in F15) so I'm not sure it would be a good candidate for a
first-timer experience. (What do you think about kdenlive for
first-timers specifically, Klaatu?)
I think kdenlive would be a good candidate for helping folks become
contributors; one thing I think we desperately need are Fedora-specific
video reviews and tutorials. Having a way of editing and cutting video /
screencasts to post them online would be a huge help there. In fact, as
part of the course we could maybe run the video editing section at the
end, and have the students produce a screencast of what they learned in
Inkscape or Gimp and post it online at the end of class.
~m
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