Video editing/mastering : need advice...

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> I do some video editing, but to be honest I'm also quite new to the 
> linux video editing world. As I also wanna do VJ'ing I've searched for 
> apropriate tools and found a somehow dirty distro called Dyne:Bolic. 
> This Distro just comes with a live CD and uses a RAM-Disk as a storage, 
> only knows english as language and keyboard settings.....
> It is dedicated to multimedia editing, so you got all the stuff needed 
> for that built in (Live, Cinerella,...). But be aware, my system (a 2Ghz 
> Pentium II with 640 MB Ram) is not strong enough to handle cinerella, I 
> get resource problems when I just wanna open a video.
> But you don't have to install it, it runs from cd, you got acess to 
> you're harddisk, so you can store the files you've edited. And if you 
> got more maschines, it can share computation among them.
> http://www.dynebolic.org/
> So I only use it for multimedia editing, I prefer the  fine and clean 
> setup of Ubuntu for regular use, but for Multimedia editing I found it 
> to be a good choice, if you can live with the troubles video editing 
> brings on all systems: long computation times and great instability from 
> the programs.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Rainer

Hi Rainer, 

Well, I don't exactly want to waste a CD just for this little task ;o)

But BTW, why do you say that video programs are necessarily unstable ?
Or did I misunderstand your sentence ?

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Vince