yup. still boring.

[frayadjacent]

OMG how do people viiiid?????  I am so bored of clipping.  I need a snack, maybe?

In other news, I went on my first run in almost 3 weeks.  Cramps + migraines + sinus infections conspired to get me irrecoverably off the half-marathon training path.  :(  Well, at least I'm running again.

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[thirdblindmouse]

You can avoid clipping by vidding in Blender, which is available for all platforms! Come on over to Blender -- no clipping, easy-to-learn UI... Okay, no, I can't keep this up; I'm not that cruel.

Seriously, though, if you don't mind the other qualities of Blender, it does run quite nicely on a Mac. I've done it! (I've also tried to use Blender on the Windows machine at work, but the machine didn't seem to have codecs installed yet, and mainstream OS or not, no one on the internet could explain to me how to successfully install the damn things.)

[frayadjacent]

Well, if I comandeer my partner's computer there's a good chance I'll install Ubuntu on it. I'm not sure if I'd partition the hard drive or not in that case; I'm leaning toward not. Anyway, vidding is my main hesitation -- I want to check out your Blender tutorials first! Maybe trying it on the Mac would be a good start.

[sanguinity]

Blender is the... 3D modeling program? *is confused* I see mention here and there that it can be used for video editing, but that is less clear at the website itself.

ETA: Never mind, I found your blender tag! ...omg, I might finally get to try a non-linear editor omg omg. That can do color effects maybe? omg omg

[beccatoria]

Ooooh, interesting - I run Linux (sounds like you do to? - I'm on Ubuntu), and I use Cinelerra for vidding but I did look into Blender before I decided that no, Cinelerra would be easier to learn afterall... I would still like to learn more about it at some point, if only because its 3D modelling (okay so NOT an easy thing to learn) sounds so fascinating. I do have it installed on my laptop.

How does it stack up in terms of effects, etc.? I would eventually like to move away from Cinelerra, because as much as I've come to be competent and comfortable in it, it's not brilliantly maintained and one day I suspect it will die out. Blender is better maintained. But I'm concerned about functionality because I don't know how advanced it is as an NLE? For instance, if you don't mind my asking, does it have masking capabilities, and if so are they simple shape-masks or can you actually draw/feather/animate multipoint masks? What are its compositing capabilities like?

Also - have you taken a look at the Lightworks beta? That's another programme I'm looking at eventually moving to because again it'll be well-maintained and platform agnostic (though the Mac beta isn't out yet), as well as having a really high level of functionality. It doesn't currently have a few features I need it to have yet (though I understand they're forthcoming), so...I have an excuse to avoid learning New Stuff for a while longer... ;)

[thirdblindmouse]

It absolutely has masking capabilities. However, I absolutely cannot figure out how to work them, so I'm not sure what kind of masking it is. Which is pretty much my experience with Blender in a nutshell...

I don't know how Blender compares to Cinelerra because the last time I tried Cinelerra it managed to crash X. Granted, this was a long time ago, but I ended up in Blender not because it was superior as an editor but because it was superior as a program that didn't crash X. Now I have so many projects invested in Blender that even if this Lightworks project works out (sounds cool! I hadn't heard of it) it would be difficult to bring myself to switch.