[ale] There's a Distro for That!

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Fri Mar 26 19:56:28 EDT 2010


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 16:25, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cinelerra for home video editing is like using a jackhammer when a dentist
> drill will do :-)
>
> Try Kino for a simpler tool. My son was using Cinelerra for a stop-motion
> video project he did for school.  Over the summer, I should get him to give
> an ALE talk on that topic :-)

Nearly all of the tools are somewhat opaque to a novice user, so I was
trying several to see which got things done best.

That said, kino in part of the repos, so it gets the nod


>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 15:43, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Cinelerra is a huge tool. It will eat hardware so toss a dual socket,
>> > quad
>> > core Opteron at it with 16 GB RAM for blistering performance. For live
>> > feed
>> > editing, get the cards they have on heroinevirtual site as they are high
>> > performance and supurbly supported.
>> > I tried the liveCD version and found it very very old and lacking.
>> > Compiling
>> > from source is an exercise not for the faint of heart or patience!
>>
>> I was not aware of the lag in the LiveCD version, although I was just
>> trying out something for home video
>> editing.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Mar 26, 2010 3:03 PM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:54, m-aaron-r <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
>> >> Had occasion to be perusing the hun...
>> >
>> > If you are into video editing, I believe that Cinelerra has a LIveCD
>> > version so you don't need to
>> > keep it loaded all the time.
>> >
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