kdenlive on fedora? (best video editor missing from fedora)

[Valent Turkovic]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Claude Jones <cjones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Monday April 7 2008 3:10:15 pm Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  > I would understand that kind of comment from somebody who
>  > doesn't use and video tools - as you suggested a BLAG
>  > maintener. But when I heat it from Dan Sawyer who is a Linux
>  > writer and does professional video production then that is
>  > completely different story. He did claim that you need to
>  > compile kdenlive from source in order to make new features
>  > work because in older releases you couldn't even separate
>  > audio from video. Also video framework MLT that kdenlive uses
>  > has gone through mayor changes in past few months.
>  > BLAG linux is over year old and stuck at fedora 7 release so I
>  > wouldn't give them a look if they don't plan to update to F9.
>  >
>  > So I would love to try for myself and see how kdenlive looks
>  > and works. If a linux video professional says that kdenlive is
>  > great I guess he knows what he is taking about because he is
>  > putting his money where his mouth is and using it in
>  > production.
>  >
>  > I have been to cinelerra workshop and love it! But I would
>  > also try other tools if somebody packages it for fedora.
>
>  You're making many claims. Do you know Jeff Moe? BLAG
>  deliberately stays behind Fedora by a version for solid reasons.
>  It tries to be a slighly 'late' Fedora that just works, and it
>  features compiled versions of many A/V programs that aren't
>  available elsewhere - that's changing now, but, they were in
>  front of the curve in many areas for awhile.
>
>  I don't know Dan Sawyer so I can't speak to him, but there are
>  many Linux video writers and many claiming to do 'professional
>  video production' -- if he claims he's doing professional video
>  on Kdenlive, I would like to see that, but until I do...
>
>  If you're keen to try kdenlive, why don't you package it
>  yourself? There are some very straightforward instructions here:
>  http://tinyurl.com/5psknr
>  see the table of contents at the bottom

I'm about to reinstall rawhide so I thought it this blows my box I
don't care, but I got stopped at first try. bash kdenlive_builder.sh
script needs xdialog and there is no xdialog package for fedora :(

Valent.

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