[LAU] state of multimedia

Jeremiah Benham jjbenham at chicagoguitar.com
Wed May 6 11:50:12 EDT 2009





On May 6, 2009, at 5:15 AM, Patrick Shirkey  
<pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> They both have alot of power under the hood. I think blender has a  
> nicer
> interface tho.
>
> My problem with cinelerra-cv was that I couldn't cut the video track
> without also cutting the audio track.

You need do disarm the audio track if you don't want to edit it also.  
Cinelerra is very tempermental and does not import all the media that  
it appears to. I think raw QuickTime is safe. Then you can use a  
different tool to get it into the format you wish.

Jeremiah



>
>
> I tried for a couple of hours to get it to play nice but it seemed  
> like
> the selection tool could not be made to work per track.
>
>
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd
>
>
>
> Raffaele Morelli wrote:
>> I would say that the best tool on linux for manipulating video is
>> cinelerra, blender is a 3D modeler.
>>
>> cinelerra supports many video file formats other than the well known
>> DV,MPEG,AVI and has a lot of plugin to work with audio as well.
>>
>> -r
>>
>>
>> 2009/5/5 Eric Steinberg <eric.steinberg at gmail.com
>> <mailto:eric.steinberg at gmail.com>>
>>
>>    Blender is not intuitive, nor is it a video file editor, but it is
>>    the best tool on linux for manipulating video, and it does support
>>    import of mpeg/avi/mov.  Most jobs that you can do with a
>>    cuts-only editor can be done in the sequencing window of Blender.
>>     You probably won't find a time-stretch tool for video, as video
>>    is frame-based (there is an "add to clip" feature in Quicktime Pro
>>    on Mac OS that will do the job, but nothing similar on linux).
>>     I've had the most success, other than Blender, with Kdenlive,
>>    although only on 32-bit...
>>
>>    The very best cheap (twenny bucks, yo) tool for this operation is
>>    Quicktime Pro.  Has anyone run the Windows version of Quicktime
>>    Pro under WINE?  Fixing sync issues is literally a two or three
>>    step operation:
>>
>>    1. trim audio
>>    2. trim video
>>    3. add to clip
>>    Done!
>>
>>
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