I upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon a few days ago only to be greeted with an additional feel of polish and goodness. Read more for our mini preview.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Sorry, but I can't wait that long. I need functionality, and I needed it yesterday.
If an OSS video editing app gets the kind of maturity and stability I am after, of course and I would use it over a proprietary one. But it has not been the case for years, and in fact this is not the first time I am whining about it. Linux and video editors are just not a good mix so far. That's just the truth.
Unfortunately I don't see Sony doing it any time soon - these are the same people who have refused to disclose ATRAC specifications, refuse to disclose NetMD specifications, refuse to port any of their applications to *NIX (of any flavour). Sorry to say, but isn't going to happen - the best advice is to look at a Mac if you don't want to run Windows. Its the only viable alternative out there to Windows which currently has the largest array of proprietary applications.
I run OpenSolaris B73, and it is fabulous, but I realise that until some eccentric millionaire comes out of the middle of no where and invests a huge sum into a project or a company drops the 'quarter by quarter' CEO's in favour of long term investments; realising that the Windows market is going to be eventually dominated by Microsoft and their solutions - their only hope of survival is to look at making their applications available on alternative platforms.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I work a lot with video using resolutions above HD. FCP, Premiere start creaking at these resolutions, but I agree with you Vegas sits there looking slightly less pretty but doing the job. I've been searching for an open alternative for a few years - Kino, Kdenlive and Cinelerra just don't cut it. A lot of this video originates in 3D land, and I've been using Blender for about 10 years - more and more I've been turning to Blender first for video editing - I'm not saying it's as pretty as Vegas, but the flexibility keeps amazing me - I found out last week I can use footage captured from a Canon HV20 directly in Blender, either in the sequence editor or as a texture. Of course you need to have the right libraries, which is why I always end up back on Gentoo, I got tired of chasing media repositries in Fedora, Debian etc...
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2005-06-28
This will take forever. It took Sony Vegas 5 years to become as polished as it is, and it has at least 20 (clueful) engineers working on it full time. It would take Kino and KDEnLive another 10 years to get where Vegas is today (and no, Cinelerra doesn't cut it either).
Sorry, but I can't wait that long. I need functionality, and I needed it yesterday.
If an OSS video editing app gets the kind of maturity and stability I am after, of course and I would use it over a proprietary one. But it has not been the case for years, and in fact this is not the first time I am whining about it. Linux and video editors are just not a good mix so far. That's just the truth.
Edited 2007-09-22 01:33