From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EaeKD-0005Kw-8G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:12:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jABJBfkc003915; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:11:41 GMT Received: from priv-edmwes25.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [204.209.205.55]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jABJ7uUO000160 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:07:56 GMT Received: from zebedee ([154.20.66.11]) by priv-edmwes25.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20051111190754.CMLQ10311.priv-edmwes25.telusplanet.net@zebedee> for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:07:54 -0700 From: Robert Persson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best? Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:38:25 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20051107190732.02dbd0e3.nick@rout.co.nz> <200511100620.34438.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> <20051111145744.738e2786.nick@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20051111145744.738e2786.nick@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511072338.25212.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 06c7f358-9bb7-4002-bc48-40baccb211a7 X-Archives-Hash: cb2fbba3a773e17c6924060b822dfa38 On November 11, 2005 01:57 am Nick Rout was like: > OK well mu comments below: > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:20:34 -0800 > > Robert Persson wrote: > > On November 9, 2005 02:17 pm Nick Rout was like: > > > what are you looking to do that main actor cannot do? > > > > 1. Import and edit quicktime movies from my camera. > > I would be reluctant to buy a camera that wasn't DV. However as you > have one, it should be possible to transcode to something mainactor can > deal with. > > Just to confirm I have a quicktime movie which tcprobe tells me is: > > audio codec=QDM2 > video codec=SVQ3 > > and mainactor deosn't want to know it. However it was easily transcoded > to mpeg2 which mainactor is fine with. The trouble with this is that the transcoded movies will have to be a lot bigger than the originals. When I can afford some nice big disks that won't be a problem, but it is at the moment. I read a review of one of the canopus products that said it could handle many different codecs and formats in the same timeline. Waiting for transcoding jobs to render would be a pain and shouldn't be necessary. All that should need to be rendered is what you find on the timeline when you come to print the movie. > > > 2. That thing you can do in Media 100 and Avid where you you hae little > > arrows pointing from 1 video clip in the timeline to the other and back > > again so that you can do lots of fast cuts without getting confused by > > lots of tiny clips. > > I am not familiar with avid or media 100, but I am always interested in > new interfaces to movie editing. I might even install windows to take a > look :) I'm not sure if media 100 is even produced any more. I used it on a mac os 7.5 system and it needed a lot of proprietary hardware. Same goes for older versions of avid, but that's not true any more. > > > 3. Be able to do lot more with sound (e.g. mixing). > > Ahhh but there are plenty of sound mixing programs for linux. And if I > understand correctly you can do a certain amount of sound mixing with > main actor by using multiple audio tracks and mixing them. Perhaps this > is not what you mean? I haven't done much with mainactor yet and I may have missed some of the sound capabilities. I'll need to take another look. Exporting and reimporting bits of the movie can be a pain, if you're not careful, when you want to maintain audio-video sync. Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list