Reply #9: Cinelerra isn't that hard after all [View All]

[Syrinx]

After I finally figured out how to load files into it, the editing process is fairly straightforward.

I've got all the sections cut up and synced. All that's left is to load up the clips, insert some simple transitions, and render the final file. Maybe after I do that, I'll do the whole thing over from scratch. I'd probably do a better job, with a little bit of experience under my belt.

Cinelerra is a really cool program, but it crashes a lot! I'm tempted to try to write a similar editor myself. It doesn't really seem that complicated. All that it is really doing, in the manner I'm using it anyway, is keeping a record of source files, edits, and transitions in a xml file. And then rendering with gstreamer, I think. Maybe I could make a frontend editor using mencoder. Or at least put that on my infinite TO-DO list. :)