[Scottish] Linux and video editing

[William Anderson]

simon yuill wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> For editing video there is Kino (http://www.kinodv.org/) and Cinelerra 
> (http://cvs.cinelerra.org/about.php).  For still image work (ie 
> Photoshoppy stuff) there is GIMP (http://www.gimp.org) and a variant of 
> GIMP called Cinepaint that is specifically geared towards moving image 
> work (http://www.cinepaint.org/).

It should be noted that while these are excellent apps, their workflow 
is different from Premier and Photoshop.  GIMPshop tries to redress that 
by putting Photoshop-style menus and toolbars onto The GIMP to try and 
help Photoshop users move across.  I don't think there's anything 
similar for Premier.

I'd definitely try these apps (GIMP and Kino / Cinelerra) on a Live CD 
if possible to make sure you feel you can use them in place of the Adobe 
apps.  If you can, great, get rid of that Windows box :)  If you can't, 
look into dual-booting - Ubuntu makes this process pretty painless now, 
even for Win2K / XP Pro users with NTFS partitions.

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