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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.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Bill Ward wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Christian Einfeldt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:einfeldt@gmail.com">einfeldt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi, <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Bill Ward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@wards.net" target="_blank">bill@wards.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> What Windows apps did he need? </blockquote></div><div><br>Power School: <a href="http://www.powerschool.com/" target="_blank">http://www.powerschool.com/</a><br><br>Adobe Premier Pro<br>Booksmart <a href="http://www.blurb.com/" target="_blank">http://www.blurb.com/</a><br> iTunes<br>and one other whose name I have forgotten.<br><br>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:<br> <br><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122834329238077143.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122834329238077143.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business</a><br><br>so hopefully Adobe won't be in a position to bribe the teachers again this year. <br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Could he have used WINE? Or perhaps run windows in a VM?</blockquote> </div><div><br>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.<br> </div><div><br></div></div>VM is resource intensive, and not suitable IMHO for video editing and rendering, particularly on this machine.<br><br>c u<br> </blockquote></div><br>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.<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">BALUG-Talk mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:BALUG-Talk@lists.balug.org">BALUG-Talk@lists.balug.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org">http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>