Learning Cinelerra
Posted on September 16, 2010Note: For the time being, I've totally stopped with this, just in case you were looking for help. I like to keep my computer lean, and so I have taken it off completely. If I get a fast enough Internet connection to actually upload videos, I might get into it again.
If you have been keeping up with the goings on in Sandcurves, you would think that I was chasing around doing a million things and kind of being a headless chicken. On reason for that is that I seem to be learning a thousand things at once. If that is what you thought, you'd be right. Well, I'm trying anyway.
It isn't really what I mean to be doing, but I keep having things show up that I need to spend some time learning new things in order to do them. One thing I am doing now is working on a slide-show for a family member (who I don't think reads this blog???) and I wanted to make the slide-show into a DVD. So, I did some reading up and trying things out, and decided that I should give Cinelerra a go.
Cinelerra, in case you didn't know, is a powerful video editing program. I don't know anything about video editing, so powerful doesn't mean to much to me. But, I thought, if I am going to spend time learning something, I'll go for something serious.
It is open source, so it fits nicely with both my philosophy about software, and my budget (zero).
The docs look heavy - and trust me, I like learning from heavy documentation. The problem is not the learning, the problem is more time and the fact that when I get stuck into learning stuff like that I get hooked and abandon everything else I am doing.
Maybe if I get it all working I'll start trying my hand at making videos and slide-shows for the blog, and I certainly mean to do a bit of video stuff for See Namibia.
Have any of you had experience with Cinelerra? Any other open source video editing software? Any tips you think I should have? Let me know in the comments.
I found a series of videos as a Cinelerra tutorial, and I'll have a look at them. I haven't watched it yet, but I'll just stick it up here, just by the small chance that you are also learning Cinelerra or something similar:
Cheers
BTW, my Portuguese learning is going really well. I'm listening to the CDs each day to and from picking up my boys - and anywhere else I go in the car. The boys are already tired of it!
