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From: John on 29 Jan 2008 12:34 Hi Peeps, Any suggestions for a linux distro that leans towards video editing? I want to download video from my camcorder via firewire and edit using Linux. I will be using a 3Ghz Pentium 4, with 1.5GB ram, ATI 128Mhz graphics card and a 250MB hard drive. Thanks for any input. John.
From: Tony van der Hoff on 29 Jan 2008 13:12 On 29 Jan at 17:34 John <me(a)zen.co.uk> wrote in message <6096coF1oper3U1(a)mid.individual.net> > Hi Peeps, > > Any suggestions for a linux distro that leans towards video editing? I > want to download video from my camcorder via firewire and edit using > Linux. I will be using a 3Ghz Pentium 4, with 1.5GB ram, ATI 128Mhz > graphics card and a 250MB hard drive. > I think you'll need a bigger hard drive.... ;) -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:news_0711(a)vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England
From: Ian Rawlings on 29 Jan 2008 13:37 On 2008-01-29, John <me(a)zen.co.uk> wrote: > Any suggestions for a linux distro that leans towards video editing? I > want to download video from my camcorder via firewire and edit using > Linux. I will be using a 3Ghz Pentium 4, with 1.5GB ram, ATI 128Mhz > graphics card and a 250MB hard drive. Watch out for kerrnel 2.6.23, for many moons now the API for the firewire interface has been marked as deprecated and soon to be removed in favour of the new API, but the main apps that used it for importing camcorder data have ignored that and carried on using the old API. In 2.6.23 the old API was removed so any system running 2.6.23 or above will break all the apps I'd ever seen that could import from a mini-dv camcorder. I dumped the camcorder after a week as it wasn't very good and bought a hard disc based one that can be connected via USB and mpeg files copied off, much easier. As for live CDs, check the following; http://cvs.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
From: John on 29 Jan 2008 13:44 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 29 Jan at 17:34 John <me(a)zen.co.uk> wrote in message > <6096coF1oper3U1(a)mid.individual.net> > >> Hi Peeps, >> >> Any suggestions for a linux distro that leans towards video editing? I >> want to download video from my camcorder via firewire and edit using >> Linux. I will be using a 3Ghz Pentium 4, with 1.5GB ram, ATI 128Mhz >> graphics card and a 250MB hard drive. >> > I think you'll need a bigger hard drive.... ;) > Sorry, my mistake. Should have typed 250GB hard drive. John.
From: Mike Scott on 29 Jan 2008 14:04
Ian Rawlings wrote: .... > import from a mini-dv camcorder. I dumped the camcorder after a week > as it wasn't very good and bought a hard disc based one that can be > connected via USB and mpeg files copied off, much easier. And lower quality too, surely, compared with dv files. -- Mike Scott (unet <at> scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England |