Sound And Video Editing
Linux is still very young, and the amount of software relating to sound and video is overwhelming. Whether a person wants to use editors as a hobby or a professional, with Free software an individual should find more than what he needs.
In many magazines and forums, many people have already said this over and over again, yet in the general population people who don't use Linux don't often read these articles. They don't know what they are missing.
Free software is available on all platforms, yet I prefer GNU/Linux so this article will cover some of the jewels I found for/in GNU/Linux.
I 'll also use this occasion in order to thank the free software community and the developers whose work is much appreciated.
I have tried many distributions over the years, and evolved around the ease of use of Mandrake, Aurox, redhat, mandriva, Fedora.... Then I found my true favored distributions, Suse that then got dethroned by Ubuntu. So my favorite distribution of the moment is Ubuntu. Who knows, tomorrow it may be Debian.
Over the years I have seen the emergence of an increasing amount of distributions and software until a contemporary state of astonishment. "How can one make choices when there is so much to choose from?" With free software, people are spoilt yet many prefer the entrapments of proprietary software? This leads me to believe that there is something illogical in life.
It is like being allowed to bring home any CD from a music store, seeing the boxes yet not knowing which tracks you would most enjoy. Making a stupid choice based on the packaging. If you want to put the C.D. on the wall and frame it that is fine.
Proprietary is like the shop where you can't listen to the tracks and have to make a blind choice. Free software is the shop where you can listen to the tracks and make a choice of the tunes you really like.
I haven't tried all the media editing software yet, it is like an impossible mission to fulfill, as I said, there is a lot of choice and what is at hand is always on the rise. Over the years, and particularly nowadays, some software has caught my attention. Sometimes getting it to run smoothly even teaches you a little about the machine you are using.
Moods change depending on the day, today, (or should I say tonight seeing the time) I really enjoyed playing with lmms and terminiatorX. If you want to make noise or tunes, they do a quite a good job.
This article would turn into the never ending story if I decided to refer to all the software. chuck looks like a friendly piece of software too yet I haven't spent much time with it yet.
For video editing, GIMP is THE essential in my eyes, even if only an image manipulation program, one shouldn't forget that video is images.
Sure there is Cinepaint, Kino, Pitivi Video Editor, Cinerella but GIMP is still the essential in my eyes.
I discovered and was converted to liking free software thanks to it. (or him, gimp evolves and can be pretty much considered alive and kicking)
Istanbul Desktop Session Recorder is a great tool too.
I'll use this occasion to write down a couple of links I added to my bookmarks.
Most readers may already know these sites, if you don't and are into audio-video, I think you will enjoy your visit.
http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
http://jahshaka.org/
http://cvs.cinelerra.org/
http://www.pawfal.org/
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
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I am still overwhelmed with the amount of different pieces of software available. This article may give users some guidance on a little of what is available. Just by using a search engine one will always find a whole lot more.
Once again I would like to thank the developers and the FSF for making all this possible.
Sometimes you wonder...
pandorange
Samstag, 16.Februar 2008