Sean M. Pappalardo wrote:
Wow, this thread has garnered quite some response.
For the record, I've been using Cinelerra occasionally (since I don't
have much video work recently) on an HP xw9300 workstation (2x Dual-core
Opteron with 2GB RAM) running Debian Lenny (now Squeeze) AMD64 kernel &
packages. Using the AMD64 Cinelerra package from Valentina Messeri's
repo and debian-multimedia's AMD64 repo to fill in the gaps.
I've been quite pleased with Cinelerra on this system. Yes there are a
couple bugs with some effects, and you have to save often (thankfully
it's one keystroke (s) so I do it after almost every successful edit)
but once you get into that habit, it's very usable. (I usually start
Cinelerra from a command prompt so I can 1) see why it crashed if it
does and 2) restart it with two keystrokes (cursor up & Enter.))
Heroine Virtual even says that Cinelerra is more stable in 64-bit than
32. In fact, I purchased the workstation I did due to their system
requirements.
I'm also coming from Adobe Premiere 4.2 on SGI/IRIX, and if you want to
talk about buggy...I had so many workarounds for bugs on that thing it
was a large project just to do a slide show video (having to render
stills differently than motion due to artifacts, then trying to join
them later in a way that didn't mess up the field order, with really
only Motion JPEG-A Quicktime as a choice since all the other codecs were
buggy in one way or another! Oy!) What took me a day or more on that
takes me minutes on Cinelerra, so I don't mind the occasional crash,
especially with the console output to see what went wrong.
My 2c.
Sincerely,
Sean M. Pappalardo
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I to came from Premiere to. After buying a new faster computer I
tried to install premiere and found out that my Copy was outdated and
would no longer install. This a program that cost me over $500 and was
suddenly obsolete after 4 years. I have also been using Linux and doing
video on Cinelerra with some struggles but at least it has not become
obsolete. Even with it's problems I like it better than the O so sacred
Premier. Using Premiere is much like painting by numbers as compared to
the artistic feel of Cinelerra. I have been asked by several to explain
this statement and I find it hard to do. How do you explain the feeling
of artistic?? All I know is it feels more like I am doing art unlike
doing a drawing in Cad which I have no quarrel with as compared to
drawing on a piece of paper or painting in oils.
So all I can say is I prefer Cinelerra and am looking forward to
Lumiera with a little fear that with so many improvements it will loose
it's artsy feel. That would be a shame.
Doug
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