[ale] Video Editing ala Adobe Premier

[aaron]

I've been doing the media work you describe on Mac OSeX for quite a while and 
highly recommend the scaled down FCP, Final Cut Express for DV editing.  I've 
been exploring Linux media production options, but haven't run across 
anything that is even sophisticated enough to compete with iMovie, the free 
DV editing software that is bundled with Mac OSeX (along iDVD and the new 
Garage Band).  For DVD authoring and burning, the iDVD app supports 
reasonable customization options  and can automagically generate a basic menu 
structure based on markers in the QuickTime source file.

My experience with Adobe Premiere that it is a really miserable excuse for a 
Video editing program and should be avoided like the plague. General buzz is 
that the only version worth looking at is the latest high end release, and 
for the license cost you'll pay to run that under a criminal M$OS you're at 
least half way to owning a new OSeX / FreeBSD / X11 eMac with capable, 
integrated DV editing and DVD authoring software already installed.

Anyway, that's the route I settled on about 3 weeks ago when I joined the two 
media production companies I work for and bought myself an eMac.  I love 
running the Gimp and Open Office and Xterm next to iTunes and QuickTime and 
FCX and iDVD!  :-)

peace
aaron

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 21:41, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> I'm about to turn some Digital 8 video footage into a DVD but need some 
serious editing software to 
> handle the job. In addition to standard scene selection & transitions, It 
needs to be able to adjust 
> the brightness and colour of the video content, be able to mix in different 
audio well, and hopefully 
> perform advanced DVD menu generation. Has anyone been doing this recently 
(preferably) under 
> Linux or is Adobe Premier still my only usable option to date?
> 
> 	thanx & later,
> 
> 		Ben Scherrey
> 
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