On Friday February 29 2008 11:24:22 am Robin Laing wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > > On Tue February 26 2008, Dan Dennedy wrote: > >> As the lead developer of Kino and a former Vegas user, I > >> can safely say there is nothing for Linux that comes even > >> close to Vegas. Not even the expensive Discreet Smoke > >> because they have very different UIs and target audiences. > >> If you think the GIMP UI is bad, then you will surely > >> dismiss Cinelerra (or nearly all Linux applications for > >> that matter). CinePaint and Avidemux will not suffice > >> either. CinePaint is a frame touchup app, and Avidemux is > >> mainly a transcoding tool with very limited editing. > >> Nevertheless, if you really want to monitor the progress of > >> intermediate-to-advanced video editing on Linux then you > >> can monitor the progress on Blender, Open Movie Editor, and > >> Kdenlive. > > > > As a current Vegas, Adobe Premiere, and DPS Velocity editor, > > I would agree with the above. But, I wouldn't dismiss > > Cinelerra from your list. There's an ongoing project in > > active discussion to re-write the entire code being used in > > the community version which will also include a rename. But, > > that being said, we are a long way in Linux land from being > > able to edit with the power of Vegas. If the new Cinelerra > > can be what the old is minus the bugs and broken features, I > > would say it stands the best chance of rivalling Vegas or > > Premiere in the long run -- Open Movie Editor is not > > intended to be a full-featured NLE according to its author > > who participates on the Cinelerra list. Kdenlive doesn't > > seem to be undergoing a lot of development so far as I can > > tell, and Blender is not really an NLE application, though > > there's lots of discussion ongoing of incorporating video > > editing features into it. All these projects are moving > > targets and I could easily have missed major breakthroughs > > in their feature-sets since I last investigated matters, > > but, I do try to revisit these projects on a regular basis. > > I was reading some news this morning and I came across a link > for 100 open source applications and in the list was this. > > http://jahshaka.org/ > > There is a FC5 release. I tried to install it on my F8 box > but I couldn't due to 32/64 bit dependency issues that I don't > have the time to work out at this time. I may try it on my > home machine. > > Source is available. > > > -- > Robin Laing Jahshaka had a lot of promise, and got a bunch of money a couple of years back, including from HP, but, since then, there's been more work on the website than on the code -- again, I could be wrong, but, there were claims being make of a Ver3 release two years ago that was imminent, and so far as I know, it has still not happenned. I had high hopes for them at one time, but I've since become a bit more wary. Cinelerra CV is definitely the most under-active-development project in the NLE field right now as far as I can tell, with a sizable group of coders actively participating in their forums and on IRC. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
