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

[Edwin Tan]

hi Valent,
so BLAG is another linux distribution....... don't fedora 8 have its 
programs
available for the audio and video functions? just curious?

thanks

regards,
Edwin Tan,
Technical Support Manager

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valent Turkovic" <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: kdenlive on fedora? (best video editor missing from fedora)


> 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...
>
> I admit I'm not too familiar with BLAG or Jeff Moe, and I didn't say
> anything as a fact just as my personal observation. I was on BLAG
> forums and I don't see almost anything happening there, and that they
> don't have dates on their posts doesn't help also :(
> I'll keep an eye on BLAG a bit more. Does anybody know why aren't they
> making their packages available for livna or RPM Fusion?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
>
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