[UFO Chicago] Video and sound editing

[jjbenham@chicagoguitar.com]

I use cinelerra.  I think it is pretty nice.  It does not have as many
features as dolby premiere but its getting better all the time.  When you
use it with externel software it helps.  The fact that it can take png, tga,
or jpeg lists is one feature that is a life savor in terms of getting it to
work with other free software like xmorph, gimp, and blender. The author of
broadcast2000/cinelerra has a very strange sence of humor but I like it. 
I put some ebuilds of a few programs that I use at:
http://igor.chicagoguitar.com/gentoo-artist/
I will add more later.

For sound editors I use snd.  audacity is for multitrack recording.  Most
people I know use ecasounds for that though. From what I hear ecasound is
more mature then audacity.  Follow my ebuild on snd to learn how to optimise
snd to use David Philips Scheme plugins.  I think this is the best sound
editor.  It intergrates with the Common lisp music sythesizer if she is into
that sort of thing.

have your friend check out:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/gimp/postprocess.html#RenderEffects
He makes his own cartoons in linux using just gimp,blender, perl, and some
sort of mpeg encoder. I would highly recomend cinelerra though.  Its website
is:
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

of course just for fun look at:
http://www.lmahd.com/
They sell workstations with cinelerra and maya.
Cinelerra is gpl unfortunately maya is not.  She can get buy with blender
but there is no comparison between maya and blender. Now that blender is
free maybe that will change eventually.

Here is a linux journel article about the creation of titanic using alpha
linux render farm:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2494

I know final fantasy was compiled with a large x86 render farm with sgi irix
front end.  I read recently disney converted their systems to linux.  I have
not looked this up to get the detail but I heard even the artists
workstation are now running linux. 

Two other places she should look is:
http://linuxartist.org/
and
http://linux-sound.org/

Jeremiah




On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:42:19PM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> begin  Ian Bicking  quotation:
> > Looking at Freshmeat, there's lots of sound editors, but only a
> > couple video editors of note.  How do the sound editors compare to
> > Windows or Mac?  How about hardware support for accessing raw sound
> > clips?  Do the applications have the polish to produce high-quality
> > finished pieces?  (Speach with sound track, filtering poor-quality
> > input, etc)  Pete, you've done some of this stuff, yes?
> 
> So there was an app out called Broadcast2000 that everyone raved
> about, but the author didn't quite seem to grok free software in some
> strange ways.  Like, he wrote his own damn widget set, and he got mad
> when mandrake or someone packaged it before he was "done" or
> something.  It has a bit of an annoying UI, I say.
> 
> Search for "heroin warrior" and you'll find the successor project.
> 
> audacity seems to be the audio editor de rigeur for GNU, but it's a
> primitive app at best.  Ardour looks promising, but isn't quite done
> yet.
> 
> Sneakums recently found that his USB iMic got better sound quality
> for line-in work because it was in an external housing away from
> electrically noisy fans and power supplies etc.
> 
> Firewire support is pretty stable lately, and I have a friend here in
> San Francisco who's working on making a movie using only Linux (but
> she may end up using proprietary software).
> 
> -- 
> A: No.
> Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
> 
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