[BALUG-Talk] Progress at the school with Linux

[Jeremiah T. Gray]

I had some good look capturing with kino and editing with kdenlive.   
My main complaint is that the UI isn't as clean as I'd like, and I  
wound up making it worse by dragging a window into a position I  
couldn't seem to get it out of, but the combo of these two apps was  
useful and simple enough to easily train non-native english speakers  
to use (at a language school) in an afternoon.



On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Bill Ward wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Christian Einfeldt  
> <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> wrote:
> What Windows apps did he need?
>
> Power School: http://www.powerschool.com/
>
> Adobe Premier Pro
> Booksmart http://www.blurb.com/
> iTunes
> and one other whose name I have forgotten.
>
> Adobe Premier Pro could kinda sort be replaced by either Cinelerra  
> or the Open Movie Editor.  Neither are a slick or have as many  
> features.  Plus, (and most important) Adobe _paid_ him $1,000.00 to  
> got to a training for one week, PLUS they _gave_ him a 1GB RAM dual  
> core 1.3 GHZ Lenovo notebook PLUS gave the schoold $5,000.00 to  
> spend on _any_ peripheral equipment that they wanted, such as  
> digital cameras, etc.  However, I note that Adobe will be laying  
> off people:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122834329238077143.html? 
> mod=rss_whats_news_us_business
>
> so hopefully Adobe won't be in a position to bribe the teachers  
> again this year.
>
> Could he have used WINE?  Or perhaps run windows in a VM?
>
> WINE will not support any of the apps he needs, AFAIK.  And  
> remember, we have to knock them _all_ out before we can render  
> Microsoft Windows obsolete.  Plus, he has said that he wants to get  
> comfortable for at least one year before abandoning Microsoft Windows.
>
> VM is resource intensive, and not suitable IMHO for video editing  
> and rendering, particularly on this machine.
>
> c u
>
> Sounds like you're stuck then.  However for video editing, you  
> should be aware of Kino and KDEnlive which provide some movie  
> editing abilities for Linux, though neither is really "ready for  
> prime time."  We had a Kino presentation last month at PenLUG and  
> just booked the same speaker again to demo KDEnlive in March 09.
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