Kino/ other open source software

[Mister Stocks]

Hey guys, lately I've been contemplating the move to linux and I was wondering what everyone's thoughts were on Kino, cinelerra, and the works.

Yes I know how much hassle linux is, but I will also be keeping a windows partition for when sh*t hits the fan.

:badputer:

[TwistedLincoln]

I use GNU/Linux exclusively, with the one exception being my video editing workstation, which runs Windows 2000.

Kino is a decent editor for straight cuts, joins, etc. but doesn't do any real effects, compositing, etc.

Cinelerra is *almost* professional quality, which an insane amount of great features. Sadly, it isn't terribly stable, and codec support may not always be what you need, depending on the project. There are plenty of ways to convert the video with seperate apps in Linux, though.

If you do video work for a living, I'd tell you to keep Windows for that, and use Linux for everything else. If it's just a hobby, I'd say switch everything to Linux.

If you need any help making the switch, I provide free support via my website's forum.

[Mister Stocks]

Thanks for the advice, you get what you pay for, I guess.

[RokMartian]

Have you looked at Jahshaka? http://jahshaka.org/ I've played with it for a day and it is interesting. Just thought I would throw that out there ...

[Mister Stocks]

I've heard some absolutely horrid things about Jahshaka, mostly stability issues. Of course, thats all second hand because I can't even get mine to run...

[andy mace]

I like the command line interface on Linux. Damn the GUI!! :D Out of curiosity I compiled and ran both Cinelerra and Kino. It would be great if the applications were ready for prime time but neither of them turned me on like Vegas did.

There are some nice command line utilities like ffmpeg, mencoder and dvgrab so Linux might work best as a network storage, capture and background conversion box... One very interesting thing is that ffmpeg now supports DVCPRO50 and will support HD in the (near?) future. Now if only I could get ffmpeg to capture from the firewire port, I could make a small embedded box to act as a simple firestore. I hope dvgrab catches up with DVCPRO...

[Softix]

Hi,,

I would say Jahashaka is great than Kino. As a user said, Kino faces many stability issues, none of which are in Jahashaka. U can try this. Jahashaka also has stability problems but not so much compared to Kino.