friend nick,<br> <br> mainActor wants a serial no to work without the watermark sign. so anything have to...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Rout</b> <<a href="mailto:nick@rout.co.nz">nick@rout.co.nz </a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">better still install main actor. heres how I did it:<br><br>1. Go to <a href="http://mainconcept.com"> http://mainconcept.com</a> and download the SuSE rpm. The file I<br>downloaded is mainactor-5.5.7-suse_9.3.i686.rpm<br><br>2. emerge rpm if it is not already on your system<br><br>3. install mainactor:<br><br>rpm -Uvh --nodeps mainactor-5.5.7-suse_9.3.i686.rpm<br><br>4. run the binary:<br><br>mactor<br><br>5. There is a good manual for downloading in pdf format. It is worth<br>reading. There are also support forums.<br><br>This is a closed source package, but it is IMHO very good. It will <br>work as per a licensed copy except it renders a message on your video<br>when doing final rendering. You can therefore get a good idea of what it<br>does, without the normal shareware "die after 30 days" or "render only <br>up to two minutes" nonsense. The license is EUR177/USD199. Not super<br>cheap, but there is not a lot of choice of good video editing software<br>on linux.<br><br>kino is quite good, but limited in the file formats it will handle, <br>basically dv (ie as captured from a digital video camera). it will<br>render to other formats, but will only import a rather limited range.<br><br>cinelerra should be good but is almost document-less.<br><br>avidemux is a good front end for basic cutting of scenes and trancoding <br>to other formats, but doesn't have any ability to add effects or transitions,<br>so is not a real video editor of the sort you want. Its good for<br>bringing in a video track (eg recorded tv), cutting out the bits you <br>don't want (ads, start & finish overlap, sex etc) and then rendering to<br>something like xvid, although it will render to DVD compatible mpeg2<br>too.<br><br> You may want to present clients with well mastered dvd's once you have <br>edited the scenes and added transitions and a soundtrack. I know that<br>some winders products offer a suite which does everything from DV camera import<br>through to burning the DVD. The linux approach will require more mix and <br>match, especially putting together DVD menus and stuff which will<br>require a tool like dvdstyler.I have successfully used dvdstyler to make<br>dvd's of family movies, recorded TV etc complete with menus.<br><br>One thing to note too is that there is a bit of a trend for cameras to <br>take mpeg or avi files instead of the more tradition digital video cam<br>DV format, It would pay to make sure that you will be able to use your<br>raw material in whatever software you decide to use. There are all sorts <br>of possibilities for transcoding stuff to a usable format before you<br>edit it, but the more steps you put in the process the more quality you<br>can lose.<br><br><br>On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:44:46 -0400<br>David Miller wrote: <br><br>> Last time I tried Cinelerra it was not what I would call production<br>> ready and feature wise it can not replace Premier. However if you<br>> want to test it out see the following link for instructions on how to <br>> use portage and correctly deal with masked packages.<br>> <a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly">http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly</a><br>><br>> In short you can do the following and then emerge normally. <br>><br>> echo "media-video/cinelerra ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords<br>><br>> --<br>> David<br>><br>> On 7/26/05, simply change <<a href="mailto:adaptit@gmail.com">adaptit@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<br>> > AybOwan! (=welcome)<br>> ><br>> > dear lu_zero,<br>> ><br>> > im a Sinhalease from Sri lanka. i have a small company here in lanka (video filming company ex:- wedding, parties filming). my editing tools are Adobe Premeir,after effect, etc like propriatary software.so now i want to fully migrate to Gentoo Linux. today i just try to emerge Cinelerra to my Gentoo box but it has been Masked. so friends please be kind enought to advice me to setting up a full professional video lab using Gentoo Linux.<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > ...<br>> > "The future lies ahead."<br>> > _______________________<br>> > < Have you mooed today? ><br> > > -----------------------<br>> > \ ^__^<br>> > \ (oo) \_______<br>> > (__) \ )\/\<br>> > ||------w |<br>> > || ||<br>> ><br>> > Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-Adapt-v1.1#<br>><br>> --<br>> <a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br>--<br>Nick Rout<br>Barrister & Solicitor <br>Christchurch<br>Contact details at <a href="http://www.rout.co.nz">http://www.rout.co.nz</a><br><a href="mailto:nick@rout.co.nz">nick@rout.co.nz</a><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org </a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>...<br>"The future lies ahead."<br> _______________________<br>< Have you mooed today? ><br> -----------------------<br> \ ^__^ <br> \ (oo) \_______<br> (__) \ )\/\<br> ||------w |<br> || ||<br><br>Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-Adapt-v1.1#