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Prometheus 6

All respect and no restraint

The "Open Media" Open Thread

I'm going to a thing about media production using open source software. There's folks you could ask about that already, but I want to see the current state of affairs without actually doing any work testing and such. So that's where I'll be this afternoon. Anonymous comments will, of course, be delayed.

LATER: Good thing I doublechecked...I was going to be two hours early...

hmmm, there was a non-linear

a non-linear video editing program that was supposed to be fairly robust, but I can't recall the name.  I DO recall that it was buggy as heck; let us know if there's a Final Cut Pro replacement out there...

I think Kino is what most

I think Kino is what most people use on Linux.

thanks, but now i remember

it's called Cinelerra... wonder if it got any better?

open source software does

open source software does carry a price of a learning curve and open unresolved issues. i recommend just spending the $99 on shrinkwrap stuff at the store.

ed: You still have a

ed:

You still have a learning curve with your $99 software. If you REALLY want to be cheap, you can get one of the British PC magazines that ship with CDs or DVDs full of software, usually one version back.

Anyway, the guy named three editors: Kino for pulling your video off the camera and onto the PC then either KDenLive or Cinelera, learning-curve steepness order.

thanks P6

my limited skillz stalled on the way up the Cinelerra learning curve; for now i'll have to stick with one of the evil emperors (Windoze or crack, i mean, Mac)

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