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Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

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Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

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Post by arvinsim »

pinouchon wrote: post #165
wallacoloo wrote: post #51

Video editing. There’s Kdenlive and OpenShot that are maybe the most well-established, but they we’re both very buggy the last time I dealt with them, and they’re nowhere near featureful as what’s available commercially. I think we could benefit from a well-know MovieMaker equivalent. Something that isn’t featureful, but is reliable (read: doesn’t crash) and intuitive.

I'am about to try DaVinci Resolve as an alternative to Premiere (I used Premiere in the past). But I don't want to fork $20 per month because I don't use it that often. A good opensource video editing software (or NLE non-linear editing as they call it) would be great.

Wait, isn't DaVinci Resolve a one time purchase of $299? Or am I missing something?

Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

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Post by sterlind »

znpy wrote: post #91

Object databases. Strictly speaking, Versant object database by Actian (iirc) is the only long standing player and the only actually working implementation.

YES! my first job used an in-house object database, and it was magical (though everyone else seemed to hate it.. I think they were just using it wrong.)

It had UML schema, Paxos replication, fine-grained transactions, cardinality checking, reversible upgrades, etc. Application code ran in-process with the database, and it made it really eady to do anything.

I'd love to contribute to an open-source version but probably can't since I've read its code.

P.S. It fell out of favor because the systems that used it tended to be monoliths that did too much to scale well. The "right way to do it," IMHO is to build a central stateful brain with it, kick all asynchronous work out to stateless worker microservices and read from active secondaries. If the brain's only job is to mutate state by applying business logic, you can scale quite far.

Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

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Post by cweagans »

yellowapple wrote: post #219
joshuamorton wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but you probably don't make a habit of storing music or video (or weird proprietary binary animation formats) that people are modifying in git.

Indeed I do not. If game developers (and/or game engine developers; looking at you, Unity3D...) showed similar restraint, then they likely wouldn't feel the need to tie themselves to 90's-esque version control schemes.

You're not really going to get away from large binary files in game development. They need to be version controlled somehow. Adding more layers of indirection for how that actually happens is just kicking merge vs file locking can down the road.

Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

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Post by cweagans »

yellowapple wrote: post #198
joshuamorton wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't quite think you understand how perforce works. Locking the file is a signal not to work on it because someone else is modifying it. There isn't currently software that supports semantic merging of audio or video, so perforce says "someone is recoloring the asset, don't change the animation until they're done, or you'll just have to do the work again". In the meantime, perforce prevents you from checking the f…

> Locking the file is a signal not to work on it because someone else is modifying it I know how file locking works. Like I've said before, my day job involves using a locking-based version control system. My disdain for locking-based version control comes specifically from having to put up with it instead of using something sane like Git. > So you have to explicitly and clearly bypass your source control to do what…

> because someone's breathing down your neck to get that animation done and won't take "well I'm waiting for Bob to finish recoloring first" as an answer

As it happens, that's exactly the answer you're supposed to give. It's not like game devs have any shortage of things to work on at any particular time.

> All of those cases would've been avoided had we used a version control system that used branches and merges instead of locks and unlocks.

I don't think you're thinking this through all the way. If I have 5 different branches where textureA.png got modified, which one is the right one to end up with after everything is merged? Who is going to have to re-do work? Branches do not solve that problem, and without out of band communication, that problem is made significantly worse than if those changes were done in sequence (which is what file locking enforces).

Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

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Post by tdewitt »

jeena wrote: post #162

Confluence, Jira, Photoshop

Agreed for two out of three but I've never used Photoshop. I think it's worse for confluence. There are viable alternatives to jira but I've found nothing even "good enough" to replace confluence and it sets a very low bar.

Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

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Post by miedpo »

wallacoloo wrote: post #51

Video editing. There’s Kdenlive and OpenShot that are maybe the most well-established, but they we’re both very buggy the last time I dealt with them, and they’re nowhere near featureful as what’s available commercially. I think we could benefit from a well-know MovieMaker equivalent. Something that isn’t featureful, but is reliable (read: doesn’t crash) and intuitive.

It takes a bit of getting used to but VSDC does fill the Movie Maker spot pretty well. The hard part is that things are in a few menus, but once you got that down, it's pretty good.

Edit: Not Open Source though, woops. Still a good sibstitute since Microsoft doesn't host Movie Maker anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

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Post by mikewarot »

Google Picasa - A photo organizer that works offline, and lets you run facial recognition on your photos to organize and tag them.

It has a bug, and sometimes gets labels swapped if you have more than one in a photo, which then metastasizes to corrupt the samples used to compare new photos against.

It was awesome, and now it's gone.

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