Re: [tlug] Video Editing Soft & Formats

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

Erin, Josh, and all others interested in this thread,

Thank you for continuing with this topic.

I will have to agree to disagree with anyone who feels, as Josh and 
others have expressed, that the command line can suffice for graphics 
related tasks. Even if it's simple conversions. And I'm going to just 
leave it at that.

Thank you for pointing out Diva to me. It has a nice looking interface 
which looks promising. However, so far as I can tell, it looks as though 
development stopped around a year ago.

While trying to find out if Diva is currently inactive, I discovered 
another editing application called PiTiVi, which I don't think has been 
mentioned yet.

http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page

It looks promising as well. Although, like everything else, it is in 
very early stages.

Looking around at all the video editors mentioned so far, I am reminded 
that the key to a successful open source project isn't so much any 
particular feature of the application, but how robust the community 
supporting it is. So far, I don't see a clear front runner among the 
video editors for who has the deepest community behind it.

On the upside, I took a laptop to Biku Camera today, and discovered that 
the Sony Handycam model I had my eye on will show up in Ubuntu as an 
external hard drive, with no interface software needed.

On the other hand, I'm surprised to discover that Amazon Japan costs 
more than Biku Camera. I can't find any online stores as cheap as Biku, 
despite my impression up to now that usually when I shop for electronics 
it's the opposite.

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Dave M G
Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
Kernel 2.6.20-16-386