I love (sometimes hate) Cinelerra.
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| dinotrac Sep 25, 2005 6:08 PM EDT |
Cinelerra has become my favorite Linux application. The recent release of Version 2.0 - once I'd fixed up the mpeg rendering support missing from the X86_64 package has me almost giddy. It's been a long road. I've upgraded my system to an Athlon 64/gigabyte memory, and dream of dual-core and 4 gig with a couple of nodes for a small render farm. Applying multiple masks and effects to multiple tracks that are not squished down into some brutal compression scheme takes a lot of horsepower. I've endured releases that would alternate between reading/not reading the avi files dumped from my camcorder, not to mention fresh new crashes. And the user interface is, ummm, a minor challenge that I easily came to grips with in less than a year of playing at it. But... This software lets you do things. I produce small videos for the youth ministry at my church. With Cinelerra, I can use masks, I can chromakey, I can track motion, I can sweeten the color mix, I can have several videos going at once, and move them around the screen. I can barely scratch the surface of the tool and still do more than I had ever imagined possible. For free. Definitely worth the effort. |
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