--- On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Daniel Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A) Cinelerra is extremely buggy
>
>
> I would say it is extremely buggy. I would even go
> further and say that if
> you value your time forget about using cinelerra its that
> unpredictable and
> its possible to find a bug pretty much anywhere. On
> the other hand its
> pretty much the only nle for linux (I know there are others
> but I have even
> less success with them) so if you have plenty of time and
> you are prepared
> to find workarounds for every bug then it may be usable for
> simple
> projects. If I was a professional video editor or I
> had to justify time or
> money spent on a project, honestly, I wouldnt touch it with
> a barge pole.
>
> Just my honest personal experiences - No more than that.
>
> Dan
>
In my own attempts to use Cinelerra, I too have found it very buggy and
generally difficult to use. Also, having to use many different outside programs
and scripts to produce anything useful is tedious. I like the concept. I was
eventually able to get it working on one of my computers using Kubuntu 8.04
(KDE 3.x) AMD64, but not on my laptop using Kubuntu 8.10 (KDE 4.x), AMD 64. In
principal, I prefer to use Open Source software in LINUX, but when it comes to
getting the job done, I need something more reliable which is easier to use. I
will keep coming back to Cinelerra to see if I can use it in the future, but in
the meantime, of all the software (both proprietary and Open Source) that I
have tried, despite its idiosyncrasies and faults, I guess I am stuck with
Pinnacle Systems Studio on Windows. I haven't even begun to tap its
capabilities, but it is very easy to work with and intuitive. However, it is
not suitable for working with multiple video
tracks (two is possible, but not more).
I appreciate the efforts the developpers are devoting to producing a powerful,
Open Source LINUX video editing system, but I think there is a long way to go.
I also have a suggestion for the E-Mail list: either include the HTML stuff in
a way that it will show up as HTML or strip it out. It is annoying to have the
text followed by the HTML source text for the same message. A very good format
for E-Mail list digests is that provided for Scribus (scribus.org). That one is
very easy to read.
Murray
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