On Friday February 29 2008 11:24:22 am Robin Laing wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tue February 26 2008, Dan Dennedy wrote:
>> As the lead developer of Kino and a former Vegas user, I
>> can safely say there is nothing for Linux that comes even
>> close to Vegas. Not even the expensive Discreet Smoke
>> because they have very different UIs and target audiences.
>> If you think the GIMP UI is bad, then you will surely
>> dismiss Cinelerra (or nearly all Linux applications for
>> that matter). CinePaint and Avidemux will not suffice
>> either. CinePaint is a frame touchup app, and Avidemux is
>> mainly a transcoding tool with very limited editing.
>> Nevertheless, if you really want to monitor the progress of
>> intermediate-to-advanced video editing on Linux then you
>> can monitor the progress on Blender, Open Movie Editor, and
>> Kdenlive.
>
> As a current Vegas, Adobe Premiere, and DPS Velocity editor,
> I would agree with the above. But, I wouldn't dismiss
> Cinelerra from your list. There's an ongoing project in
> active discussion to re-write the entire code being used in
> the community version which will also include a rename. But,
> that being said, we are a long way in Linux land from being
> able to edit with the power of Vegas. If the new Cinelerra
> can be what the old is minus the bugs and broken features, I
> would say it stands the best chance of rivalling Vegas or
> Premiere in the long run -- Open Movie Editor is not
> intended to be a full-featured NLE according to its author
> who participates on the Cinelerra list. Kdenlive doesn't
> seem to be undergoing a lot of development so far as I can
> tell, and Blender is not really an NLE application, though
> there's lots of discussion ongoing of incorporating video
> editing features into it. All these projects are moving
> targets and I could easily have missed major breakthroughs
> in their feature-sets since I last investigated matters,
> but, I do try to revisit these projects on a regular basis.
I was reading some news this morning and I came across a link
for 100 open source applications and in the list was this.
http://jahshaka.org/
There is a FC5 release. I tried to install it on my F8 box
but I couldn't due to 32/64 bit dependency issues that I don't
have the time to work out at this time. I may try it on my
home machine.
Source is available.
--
Robin Laing
Jahshaka had a lot of promise, and got a bunch of money a couple
of years back, including from HP, but, since then, there's been
more work on the website than on the code -- again, I could be
wrong, but, there were claims being make of a Ver3 release two
years ago that was imminent, and so far as I know, it has still
not happenned. I had high hopes for them at one time, but I've
since become a bit more wary. Cinelerra CV is definitely the
most under-active-development project in the NLE field right now
as far as I can tell, with a sizable group of coders actively
participating in their forums and on IRC.
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA