erm... i was referring to that guy
who occupied the linuxvideo.org domain...
and the question of how to get it back to where it belongs...
On Friday 19 December 2008 12:22:59 Fred Williams wrote:
> On December 19, 2008 05:03:26 am Kurt Georg Hooss wrote:
> > sure you are right.
> > a more practical question is how to deal with this.
> > appeal to common sense? explain the benefits of open sources?
> > or just let him go with it?
>
> Yeah, for newbies, it's a bit of a messy jungle of apps that don't do
> what is needed, and you have different apps for different steps of
> the process. Part of the problem is all the diferent formats for
> files and things like "Save" not saving the video, but rather saving
> the project.
> It looks and feel like it's rather amateurish code to them. A big
> enhancement would be to get the capture function working in
> Cinelerra. It doesn't inspire confidence to say, "Oh that doesn't
> work yet."
> I remember when I was making a DVD last summer that there was some
> real help and support from this group and when it really worked for
> me, that was a great experience. Yeah, it would be great to have
> everything under one roof so users could capture, edit, render and
> burn DVDs all under one interface with an intuitive menu structure.
> Then it starts to look attractive.
> In the mean time, I think hand-holding is good and directing people
> to appropiate documentation is a big help. For me emphasising that
> while there is a lot to learn, the up side is that you get to learn
> it and the knowledge is power. However I am often motivated by
> different things compared with other people. For the general public
> I suspect they want things as simple as possible and the computer
> does all the work.
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dr. kurt georg hooss
kurts film / schoepfung & wandel
breite strasse 6-8, d-23552 luebeck
kurts-film.de
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