Re: Writing jingles

[Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx>]

The site that made the claim about superior linux tools is just a random linux praising blog and it shows off Cinelerra, Kdenlive and OpenShot. Yeah, it is not very credible.

I did talk to Lightworks users and basically their reply to me is twofold:

1. Lightworks is for professional film and they use hardware that does the sync, like timecode jamming.

2. You don't need that amount of accuracy.

While I personally cannot agree with the latter statement, I do see the point made in the first. Indeed, as someone else pointed out, computers were seen as help, not as standalone tools.

I did not review Cinilerra, btw. It's been a while since I used it. I think it is pretty difficult to use, I remember doing something with it, but quickly stopping. I will look at it again.

Additionally, just so that I am not unfair to OpenShot developers (and maybe even Kdenlive), it uses melt, which is a video editor, afaiu, command line. And it is this melt that is buggy and crashes all the time. OpenShot and the like are just GUIs to this. Well, more than just GUIs, but melt is at the heart of it.

Apparently, OpenShot 2.0 is coming up which will use a different library and it should be seemingly more stable. I just hope it will work out. I mean, I have seen stable video editors on Earth, it should be achievable.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Brett McCoy <idragosani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 3. Tried kdenlive, hoping maybe it fixed its problems. What do you know -
>> it
>> crashes on my Xubuntu 12.04 when I click "Add clip". So much for kdenlive
>> - even
>> the stock Ubuntu version does not work, simply incredible.
>
>
> This was the one that worked for me... But I do very little video. I have
> had no problems adding clips or a series of jpgs as video (my son did a
> (very) short lego animation all stop frame).

I've had the best luck with kdenlive and even produced a training
video for my wife's company with it (including some basic compositing
and animated mouse pointers, and audio & music recorded and mixed with
Ardour). I had better luck building kdenlive from scratch from SVN,
using the latest ffmpeg and other libraries compiled from scratch. It
was certainly more stable than the packaged version and the dev team
even fixed a couple of bugs quickly that I had run into and could
patch into the SVN branch. My biggest gripe about kdenlive is the
reliance on KDE libraries, which makes it inherently resource hungry.
If they stripped it down and just used Qt (like what happened with
Rosegarden), I think it would run more smoothly and not choke on HD
video.

Lightworks I like a lot, I've just started using it, but has a bit of
a learning curve and has some performance issues with the realtime
effects (although they are working on addressing some of these
issues), but for basic video editing, it's fairly stable and
Lightworks has some very nice features for syncing multicamera video
tracks with audio... again, a bit of work getting used to the
Lightworks way of editing, but it's the only affordable commercial
video NLE on Linux. Hopefully when it goes open source it will really
take off.

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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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Louigi Verona
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