Multimedia with ubuntu / kdenlive

[Daniel Morrison]

Cinelerra is good and solid, but it won't handle any compressed formats 
you throw at it (e.g. xvid). Also, the GUI appears to have been designed 
by a Bond villain.

cheers,

danm


Norman Ma wrote:
> I've used Cinelerra before, and I have to admit that it's pretty good. 
> My main problem with it is aesthetic, rather than anything else (not 
> sure which toolkit it uses, but it's definitely not Qt or GTK. Oh, and 
> I tried to run it with Compiz Fusion at the same time. Bad idea.
>
> On the up side, it's dealt with every format and codec I've bothered 
> to throw at it. The interface is a bit fiddly, not as polished as 
> Adobe Premiere obviously, but it's still pretty good. Plus, I can't 
> find any other free non-linear video editing software for Linux at all.
>
> On Jan 5, 2008 10:51 PM, Dale <quail.linux at gmail.com 
> <mailto:quail.linux at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Jan 5, 2008 10:15 PM, Daniel Morrison <dan at xxxdan.com
>     <mailto:dan at xxxdan.com>> wrote:
>     > * Kino is the only software on the linux platform that I could
>     find that
>     > can overlay supers (superimposed text and images) on a live video
>     > source. If anyone knows better, please (please?) let me know
>
>     cinelerra is pretty damn good
>     <quote>
>     Cinelerra is a complete audio and video authoring tool. It understands
>     a lot of multimedia formats (quicktime, avi, ogg) and audio/video
>     compression codecs (divx, xvid, mpeg1/2, ...)
>     </quote
>
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