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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
