use-revolution Digest, Vol 77, Issue 71

[stephen barncard]

Audacity  does not support real multitrack audio and only uses it's own
plugins.
As a two channel editor, it's still not as useful as the $80 Sound Studio.
Many pro features missing.

There is an open source video editor avidemux2, but its interface is not
that great. No competition for Final Cut.
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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


On 1 March 2010 12:50, Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 01/03/2010 22:39, stephen barncard wrote:
>
>>
>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>> DON'T spend money on Mac Software; once you have the machine and the
>>>>> operating system
>>>>> pretty well everything else should be FREE.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> Good advice for some ...That's not a realistic or practical goal for
>> those
>> who use their computers for more than word processing and web access..
>>
>> In many cases the commercial versions are still better, or provide a
>> workflow is more efficient. Also many of the open source software
>> offerings
>> seem to not look or work like real Mac applications.
>>
>> After working with the Sun Virtualizer, I still prefer the hand-holding
>> and
>> stuff 'that just works' in VMWare's paid Virtualizer. And there is yet to
>> be
>> found any open source audio and video editing software that nears the Mac
>> experience of Final Cut or Logic. This is the stuff I use every day.
>>
>> And then there's Cyberduck - open source FTP client - that blows away
>> everything I just said.
>>
>> I just don't think it's good advice to give to anyone - "Don't spend any
>> money on software" - especially to a group of programmers!!
>>
>>
>>
> For Graphics and Sound I think that Open Source is really good (GIMP,
> Inkscape, Audacity, Ardour(linux)),
>
> But there is no respectable Video Editing suite that is Open Source, yet.
>
> Ultimately one has to use one's own judegement with regard to these things.
> I am perfectly happy developing the sort of software I develop with 100%
> Open Source + RunRev.
>
>
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