For the last screencasts I had to do, I needed some tool were it’s easy to cut little pieces of various short movie files and that could have let me to assemble them togeher, maybe with some simple not too heavy transition effects.
I have tried some apps that promised that, but in the past i never had much luck. Cinelerra and Blender uis are simply painful, kino is just linear, pitivi doesn’t have any transition effect, lives insists to convert each movie frame in a separate png…
Now Kdenlive… in the past i never had much luck with that either, it was way too crashy to actually be able to get some work done with it… but some days ago I tried to compile Kdenlive from subversion…
And oh boy, everything is sooo right. I could do all the work in really short time, not a single crash, seeking frame by frame is really fast and using it is really easy.
Kdenlive is the exact balance between an easy to use app and one powerful enough (the interface could look a bit busy at a first glance, but is really simple and trivial compared to tools like Premiere, Vegas or Final cut)
I think it’s an application that really shows what the KDE development platform can do, because is something that is really unmatched in the Linux desktop, if you think the current version is still unstable and a bit impractical give a shoot at the next one as soon as will be out, it will shine!
Since it seems nowdays I can’t finish an entry without a screencast, here it is s quick and dirty “making of” of the Plasma multitouch video, well not actually that one, but shows how fast is possible to create a simple montage.
The video looked so good, I assumed you’d had some Nokia media types produce it for you. It goes to show that KDE is advancing on many fronts. Any KDE media types want to write a video HOWTO including some common title slides?
Those videos did look nice; I am a big fan of KDEnlive.
Now that KDE is no longer a desktop but just apps or the Software Compilation or whatever, i am saddened to see your videos taking place on Windows machines. Taking over the world on all platforms will be great, but it would be nice to have people move to Free platforms and I think demonstrating the tech on a Free platform is a good way to push that aspect.
Just my two centivos.
One of the most important feature is be able to take advantage of GPU accelerated decoding/encoding. This is one big feature we will probably likely be missing in the free world for a long(?) time. Other than that, KDEnlive is really awesome in every other aspects.
Hey, take a look at the OpenShot Video Editor. It is pretty good too. http://www.openshotvideo.com/
@lefty.crupps. “Now that KDE is no longer a desktop but just apps or the Software Compilation or whatever, i am saddened to see your videos taking place on Windows machines.”
KDE means now the community. KDE SC means all the software what is developed officially by the KDE community. And the desktops are not anymore called KDE 4.3 and so on, but just simply “KDE Plasma Desktop” or “Plasma Desktop” what is used on typical desktop. And then the Netbook version (what example the Kubuntu toke to experiment) is called “KDE Plasma Netbook” or just “Plasma Netbook”.
And the videos what you saw on the video, was not on the Windows. It was on Plasma desktop what was running. I believe you mistaken the Plasma desktop to windows Vista or Windows 7 because there was those anagoly meters on right side. There is as well pastebin, imageframe and analog clock, all with Plasma theme “Air”. So there was not anykind NT operating system at all on these videos, unless he was running Plasma Desktop as replacement for Explorer Shell on NT 😉
@ Simon Yuan “This is one big feature we will probably likely be missing in the free world for a long(?) time.”
I dont know current situation but if we get soon the OpenCL, we can get lots of things working on open source side.
Very nice
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