First of all, I am new to this forum so I would like to tak the chance and express my frustration , about what is happening with Blender. Keep fighting Ton, we need Blender alive…
Well, lets get to the point. This morning, I read an article about a video/audio editing software called cinelerra, which is supposed to be Bcast2000 successor and which you can find (guess… ) at www.heroinewarrior.com!!!
Although, they say (in the article), that it is a real pain in … well you know where, to compile and install, it looks very similar to its predecessor (bcast2000) and it also appears to have a lot of improvements. If things are as they describe it, it would prove a great tool to use it for making our movies with Blender.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I will sure check it out this weekend and I will inform you if I have any progress with it.
Well, you know, Cinelerra has been in the net for a while now… I downloaded (from the backups at sourceforge since it is no longer available at heroinewarrior) and tried to compile it. However I could never do it
I’ve heard of some GCC 3.x realted problems and I probably have to upgrade to it.
I have allready tried to compile Cinelerra with no success :x .
I know that it may be stupid to insist in compiling such a stubborn piece of software, but since there is a possibility that Blender will share (I surely hope not :-? ) a similar fate as bcast2000 and since Cinelerra is in some way the continuation of bcast (who wouldn’t wish that there could be some sort of continuation for Blender!!!), I guess that as a matter of honor, I have to give it a try.
I 've checked their forum at sourceforge and they mention things about using gcc-3.x and setting the CFLAGS variable, allright as Malefico mentioned.
So I’m going to upgrade to gcc-3.0 and see where it gets. Stay tuned, because if I finally get some progress with that, you will be the first to know (ofcourse ).
I tried Cinelera. I don’t like it. Its seem very Toy storeish, like it should have came witha Barbie Doll kit. But I come from a Final Cut Pro 3 background.It warns you that its tough to compile, I take it they made it that way. Code is probably broken.
I hope Blender don’t go that route. There is no reason it should be hard to compile.
PowerMacG4, I think cinellera mustn’t be confused with other profesional tools.
If you consider cinellera as an opensource project, I believe it is a very good effort to bring video editing into Linux platform. You have to know that I have also being using MainActor for Linux (which is a profesional package), quite a while and cinellera seems to be equally good.
There are some problems if you try to compile it from the source (I had to upgrade to gcc-3.0 install nasm, and “play” a little bit with some peculiar environment variables in order to make it work…), but herroine-virtual have recently released, an rpm, which does the job pretty much o.k.
If you have the money you should go and buy a more professional tool. But if you don’t, then cinellera is perfect…
I use Zwei-stein on occasion. I use it mostly for bluescreening. The interface is somewhat confusing, but I like it.
I also have Pinnacle Studio 7 and think its great. As far as I know It doesn’t do chromakeying. Other than that, it has everything I need for video editing.
Also, if you can find the older beta, Axogon Composer (now known as Mainvision) is pretty cool. I use it to make laserbolts and lightsabers mostly. I think Blenderwars.com mirrors the old beta.
, about what is happening with Blender. Keep fighting Ton, we need Blender alive…
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