I'm a long time Linux user and if there is one place where GNU/LINUX is truly deficient its video editing. Linux simply does not serve the needs of the vast majority of its potential users in this area.
For example. There are far more people with digital cameras than with firewire cards and 2.4ghz/dual opteron machines. They are not doing DV captures and editing feature length movies.
What Linux needs is a simple video editor that can do avi and mpeg formats. Just about any digital camera today can take large amounts of good quality video. Typically in mpeg and avi formats. Kino won't take them and neither will Cinelerra.
So you get sent over to Mplayer and FFMPEG fine tools all and we have to commend their developers on their amazing technical achievement. However, a look at the manuals for either quickly leads the lay person to the conclusion that these programs are best admired from a distance. You need a 3 credit semester long college course with a lab thrown in to figure these programs out.
What I'm saying is that we need a Linux video editing program that you can feed your mpeg and avi clips to, open them and edit them and output them in either format. Without having to buy a 2ghz computer and firewire hardware. The vast majority of people taking digital video today are taking small 30 sec to several minute clips with ordinary digital cameras that use usb connections not firewire.
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Posted by: emk on July 18, 2005 11:54 PMFor example. There are far more people with digital cameras than with firewire cards and 2.4ghz/dual opteron machines. They are not doing DV captures and editing feature length movies.
What Linux needs is a simple video editor that can do avi and mpeg formats. Just about any digital camera today can take large amounts of good quality video. Typically in mpeg and avi formats. Kino won't take them and neither will Cinelerra.
So you get sent over to Mplayer and FFMPEG fine tools all and we have to commend their developers on their amazing technical achievement. However, a look at the manuals for either quickly leads the lay person to the conclusion that these programs are best admired from a distance. You need a 3 credit semester long college course with a lab thrown in to figure these programs out.
What I'm saying is that we need a Linux video editing program that you can feed your mpeg and avi clips to, open them and edit them and output them in either format. Without having to buy a 2ghz computer and firewire hardware. The vast majority of people taking digital video today are taking small 30 sec to several minute clips with ordinary digital cameras that use usb connections not firewire.
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