F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

[Tim]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:23 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Video editting does not strictly require encumbered crap.  If we had
> the video editting application such as kino in the distro...we could
> edit raw dv from camcorders into quite usable compress theora videos.

 From time to time, I look into trying video editing on Linux, dabble
with some semi-functional software, and give up in disgust.  There seems
to be a fundamental misunderstanding in what's needed with video editing
(and some other video related things, like DVD-video backing up), in
that we need to create an end-product that's directly usable by someone
else.

If I create a video, I have to give someone on a DVD that they can play
in a standard player connected to their TV set.  Ogg theora output is
useless.

The input side of things is similarly warped.  I need to be able to
import DV, and work on the files in their own format.  Notwithstanding
the problems in trying to get video into a system on a virtually ignored
firewire port, converting digital video from one format to another is
not only wastefully time consuming, but damaging to video quality.

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