[Scottish] Linux and video editing

[Bill Ritchie]

Thanks for the advice William. Will try to track down Live CD versions. 
As for going it alone on partitioning.......
Cheers
Bill

William Anderson wrote:
>
> 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.
>