[luau] Digital Video Editting in Linux

[Dustin Cross]

Aloha,

Your e-mail is a little vague so I am not sure wht you are trying to do.  I
think you want to put some Linux editing stuff at Olelo?

I am a filmmaker here in Hawaii and a Linux user since late 93.  I mostly
us M$ based products for my editing and effects.  I really like FCP, but I
don't own a Mac.  I have an office full of PC, Sun, and SGI.

I am always checking out what is going on with Linux and editing/effects.
If I can help let me know.

There are several companies that have ported their expensive comercial
products to Linux.

Eyeon Digital Fusion
Discreet Smoke
IFX Paint
Apple Shake
and much more

Open source applications to check out are:

Cinelerra - editor/compositor that is powerful and OK, the lead developer
is not useful.  There is a sperate development community, but they take his
code, patch it and then have to redo everything next release, because he
won't accept any of their patches.

Jahshaka - editor/compositor that is in early development stages

Cinepaint - frame by frame painting program based on Gimp.  Used on a lot
of big movies.

Blender - 3D app

K-3D - 3D app

There are a few mailing list you can check out for more information

http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/hawaii-filmmakers
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/LinuxMovies
http://developer.skolelinux.no/~herman/cinelerra/

And a website to check out:
http://www.linuxmovies.org/index.html


Mainactor, which I have looked at in the past and didn't care for just came
out with a new Linux version.  I didn't like it because it is too basic,
but I think it does much more than iMovie, so it might be a good
application to look at for Olelo.

http://www.mainconcept.com/mainactor_v5.shtml#linux


Mahalo,
Dusty




> The reason I brought up this subject of digital video editting, was
> that  Olelo (Hawaii's public access cable TV station, Channels 52-56)
> recently  established a satellite in Palolo Valley (inside Jarrett MS).
>  As I am  sure most here are aware, Olelo has standardized on iMovie
> and Final Cut  as video editting programs.  For obvious reasons, I am
> interested in  exploring whether Linux has a place in video editting
> (especially in  light of the emerging Athlon64 machines).  Olelo will
> provide the space  (as well as front end equipment to convert analog
> pictures into digital  bit), I will provide the hardware (the type of
> machine will depend on  how far we can go), and someone, hopefully from
> this forum, will provide  the body, soul, and toil.  Digital editting
> can become one of the  hottest subjects.  Anyone interested please
> e-mail me in private.  Wayne
>
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