[HLUG] kdenlive - jaunty

[Julian Robbins]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:27 +0000, "dicegeorge at hotmail dot com"
<dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:
> the magic keys Ctrl-alt-F1 say Ubuntu 8.04.2
> thanks
> 
> so next move is to make a new partition for home folder, ext3..

Yes, always, always a really good plan to create a separate /home
partition - it can be a life safer ... Not too difficult to do either
> 
> i have a friend coming round to do video work,
> so maybe upgrade to 8.10 and put kdenlive on that,
> when in april is jaunty due?

Kdenlive works pretty well in 8.10 to be honest, and is what I used on
the demo, and at work when I have been using Kdenlive at work. That said
the Kdenlive devs suggest that with using Jaunty that the ffmpeg
packages that it uses will give better results when rendering, as ffmpeg
are releasing a major new version with many, new features and
improvements. But as I say, if you just want to be able to knock a video
together and render it for the web, or a media player, using 8.10 is
absolutely fine.

Jaunty is out April.

Julian


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> From: "Matthew Macdonald-Wallace" <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:14 AM
> To: <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] kdenlive - jaunty
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> > Quoting dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>:
> >
> >>
> >> do you recomend upgrading to jaunty alpha before installing kdenlive?
> >
> > Ummm, I'd really steer clear of Jaunty at the moment, especially (and
> > there's no disrespect intended here) if you are asking questions about
> > how to find out which version of Ubuntu you are running.  Jaunty is
> > ALPHA for a reason - it will probably break your computer if you use it.
> >
> >> and is there a way to move my home data folders to their own partition
> >> before i do it?
> >
> > Not without repartitioning your disks, but if you;ve got enough free
> > space, then yes, it is do-able.
> >
> >> and would all my programs and preferences be ported over to the new 
> >> version?
> >
> > In the main, although you may be shocked at some of the results (I
> > know I was when I did an etch->lenny migration for a debian system I
> > run the other week!).
> >
> >> System/About Ubuntu  mentions 8.04, so maybe i have that version 
> >> installed,
> >> i cant find a menu to tell me which version i have..
> >>
> >> did a restart, it didnt tell me which version of ubuntu i have 
> >> installed...
> >
> > Hold down CTRL+ALT+F1 and see what information it gives you.  My
> > Machine tells me I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.2 which is Hardy.  Intrepid
> > is 8.10 and Jaunty is 9.04.
> >
> > The latest you should need to run for this kind of thing is 8.10.
> >
> > Make sure you press CTRL+ALT+F7 to return to your window manager!
> >
> > M.
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