On 31/10/12 15:09, Rajko wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:15:06 +1100 Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Are there any Cinelerra users reading this list or can you answer these vexing questions for me, please?
In YaST the latest installable version of Cinelerra is 2.2CV - and I have it installed. However, on the heroinewarrior.com site I see that there is version 4.4 released. There are 2 versions, original at http://heroinewarrior.com and community version CinelerraCV http://cinelerra.org/ more at http://cinelerra.org/about.php .
Yes, I know. But seeing a version number 4.4 as against 2.2 automatically attracted my attention :-) . Also it appeared to me that 4.4 was more commercially oriented than the Community version.
My questions therefore are:
1. Has anyone compiled this 4.4 version for oS 12.2 AMD64 from source tar.xz - and perhaps the rpm is available in one of those private repos on opensuse.org? Search will not give you option to look home repos. It did before, but today search for Cinelerra did not list any home repos.
Not many need that kind of software and as you can see from CinelerraCV they are trying to produce version that will work with modern libraries. The original uses its own versions.
I take the view that if you want the best results then you use the best program to achieve that result, and Cinelerra is most powerful. Mind you, you need a licence to drive it but it is well worth the effort to learn how to use it even if it is for doing a simple task as creating a DVD from the TV programs I capture on my dvb card. I downloaded the manual about a week or so ago but being in a hurry to do some editing didn't bother to read it but after spending a few frustrating days I decided (yesterday) to start finding out how to do things by reading the darn thing :-) . I can now see some light at the end of the tunnel. I really should have started reading the manual when I downloaded it because at the beginning it gives a big list of tutorials on how to use Cinelerra. One of the annoying things about them though is that they are skewered towards systems which use Never The Same Colour (NTSC) and not PAL which Europe has (and so do we). The other is that the manual/tutorials are out of date and not uptodate with the latest changes in the s/ware.
2. I have downloaded the source code for 4.4 but wonder if it is safe to simply use the instructions given in the tar file to compile it (ie, just run '/.cinlelerra'? The tar.xz is for Ubuntu, so it probably needs adjustment.
First is to run ./configure to prepare local compilation.
[.................] Thanks for trying to compile 4.4 but I decided to stay with 2.2 and now won't bother with 4.4 :-) . The CV is more stable than the heroinewarrior version I discovered after doing a bit of reading. And in any case I don't have the expertise to do any fiddling with the config files to iron-out any 'bugs' in order to make a successful compilation. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.9.2 & kernel 3.6.4-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org