Shameless plug time. www.celtx.com - Open source pre-production application for making films, stageplays, audio, AV and comics (so far).
That's a really impressive piece of software.
Open-Source Tools for Working With Video and Audio
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#12Shameless plug time. www.celtx.com - Open source pre-production application for making films, stageplays, audio, AV and comics (so far).
Woah!! + many internets, and I wish I could upvote you twice. I work in this area (kitchen TV right now) and had heard of the project a while back but forgot about it - this looks superb. The popular commercial alternatives (EP/Movie Magic and Gorilla) are made of fail, and I'm not such a big fan of Final Draft either.
After randomly dumping a bunch of day job (unscripted TV location plan data) and personal (2 feature scripts) into it, you've got yourself an evangelist.
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#13I don't think the author tried to get any real work done with Audacity. It's really not up to par with either Sound Forge or Wavelab. I really had a terrible time last time I checked out Audacity. I understand it's free of charge and you can definitely get some work done with it (if you aren't in a hurry). The thing is I just don't think open source is competitive in that kind of market. First of all: very limited ex…
All true. Ardour and Rosegarden are better as far as multi-tracking goes, but still. The killer app (but not open source) in this space is Reaper, which runs on anything, 32/64 bit, free to use and cheap to buy, yadda yadda. For real work I use Adobe Audition.
There is a load of fabulous OS stuff out there for hardcore geeks, from PD to Jack. But for those who are seeking free-as-in-beer software to get things done, open source is not the way to go. It's even worse with video - I hugely admire Cinelerra, but would not dream of using it for anything important.
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#14What a disappointing article!
Only four piece of software mentioned. Of the four, only Audacity and Blender are really about working with Video and Audio. The rest are a format transcoder (Simple Theora Encoder) and a general purpose media player and broadcaster (VLC)
So in summary, none none of them are really about editing video.
The article even failed to mention you can almost do that with Blender, but learning a complete and thus quite complicated 3d suite to edit your vacations' videos is a bit "much."
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Audacity is clunky but gets the work done when it comes to simple editing. Not really indeed very good for a musician since it misses useful realtime feedback on effects, but for a Dad looking to record / edit / convert his vinyls into mp3s it works perfectly. As for why you'd want to have low latency on a sample editing software, I do not really understand why. Unless you want to record and process effect automation…
Low latency is interesting when you're tweaking the VST in real time and want to see how it affects your recording. With enough CPU power and a good audio card, this is doable even with a complex stack of effects. I guess it could also be important when using external processors.
Yet this has nothing to do with low latency. You can have a decent realtime preview with ~120ms latency, which I use as a limit for instantaneousness.
Low-latency is good for performance, as in, for performing live. And that's it (Then again ask any church organ player about latency.. He has ton of it)
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#16Shameless plug time. www.celtx.com - Open source pre-production application for making films, stageplays, audio, AV and comics (so far).
Woah!! + many internets, and I wish I could upvote you twice. I work in this area (kitchen TV right now) and had heard of the project a while back but forgot about it - this looks superb . The popular commercial alternatives (EP/Movie Magic and Gorilla) are made of fail, and I'm not such a big fan of Final Draft either. After randomly dumping a bunch of day job (unscripted TV location plan data) and personal (2 featu…
Thanks much to you (and dtf) for the feedback. Really appreciated. We don't get a lot of press (you'd think that whoever wrote the piece about open source media apps would have at least Googled around a bit beforehand...), but the WOM is working nicely.