[ale] looking for a truly Linux friendly camcorder

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Wed Dec 9 05:01:55 EST 2009


aaron wrote:

> Forgetting the AVCHD is obscenely proprietary over compressed crap
> at the heart of it and decoding is a massively CPU intensive task
> that is barely manageable on all but the most overboard systems...
> 
> I'd recommend posting he question to the kdEnlive forums.
> 
> http://www.kdenlive.org/forum
> 
> http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/avchd-playback-and-editing
> 
> kdEnlive seem to be the up and coming Linux video editing solution
> and I'm getting anxious to scope it out when I can put together an
> x86 machine with enough horsepower to work with video (-: "video"
> meaning low compression, high quality DV standard def, of course :-).

Hey Aaron, care to share what the specs for such a beastie might be?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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