Hi all,
I'm not a developer but I describe myself as a computer "power user". I
run suse 10.3 and as a composer and small film studio engineer, I use an
NLE all the time. Recently we have taken a plunge and started using
cinelerra on our professional projects. It took me a couple of months to
get cinelerra stable and a workflow sorted, but now it's as solid as a
rock. When I use containered dv format I have never had a crash. Never.
This is in 5 hour editing sessions with compositing and effects and
everything. So, for me personally the stability issues that everyone
says plague cinelerra haven't happened. I also happen to really like the
features, power and simplicity of the editing model. Working with preset
chunks of clips and dropping them in so they "stick" to other bits is
often very useful, however it can be annoying and some way of optionally
avoiding this should be in cin-3 or whatever.
Now here's the thing. There's one feature which would for me improve
cinelerra massively and which I would think isn't hard to do. Here it
is: allow folders in the resources window. Have clips in folders. Once
you edit a film longer than about 5 mins with cinelerra the huge list of
clips in the resources window becomes highly infuriating. Even if you
just allow importing a whole folder with subfolder structure in it, that
would be a massive help.
The second thing would be to implement some kind of meta-clip
functionality. I've heard this suggestion before, and it would be great.
Say I have a very busy 30 second sequence with 100 or so edits, but I
don't know where exactly in the overall picture it's going yet. If I can
sort of make that section into one sort of "frozen" chunk, which I can
move around as one and see as one resource in the clips window, but can
then open it up ad go into my small edits it would really help.
Finally, an easier render in place functionality would be great. I.e I
have a load of effects on a track, I want to see my movie full speed for
a while. I can click a button and the selected clip is rendered through
effects etc then plonked back in the timeline where it came from. Then
later I can "unfreeze' this bit to make more edits to it.
I think the first issue at least is purely a GUI thing. Anyway, some
things for you to consider guys. Thanks a lot for a great program.
Dan Weatherill
UK
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