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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[beccatoria]

Cool - it does seem like that's why I have less HD space issues than you, yeah. Another programme you might want to look into - as I mentioned briefly in another comment, I think, is Lightworks. It's a professional editor (used for like, actual current Hollywood movies) that's getting open-sourced to Linux, Windows and Mac. The Mac beta is scheduled for later this year, and Windows and Linux are out already (although the Windows one is more advanced than the Linux one). It's functional right now, although at the moment, for Linux, the patch that lets it make reference files for h264 is busted so you have to conver/import imovie style. That said, it does this very quickly and efficiently, so if you're used to dealing with files of that size (it sounds like a similar size) that might not be an issue for you. Plus the next Linux update should fix the issue since it's already fixed in Windows. And will presumably come pre-fixed when they eventually release it for Mac.

It IS a work in progress, and currently, for instance, the only way to do masking work is to use a community-made effect which is a bit of a workaround - but the basic functionality and a fair amount of the more complex functionality is already in place.

It's also ultimately going to be Open Source but not entirely free to use. There's be a free version and a paid version. On the plus side, the paid version will be pretty cheap at £40/year which is way less than most NLEs of that level, and also I think the main thing you'll be getting for the paid-ness is extra codec support mostly for professionally used stuff like RED, but also I think for the ability to use reference files for h264 instead of converting to a new file (and again, this may not be that important to you?)

Anyway - in case you're interested - http://www.lwks.com/

As to Cinelerra, it can import a reasonable number of formats. It prefers uncompressed mpeg stuff, but it'll play fine with xvid or h264 as long as it's in .avi or .mp4 format. It's fine with .vob but won't import .mkv. That's not a huge problem though because it's the container it doesn't like, not the video stream, so if you just change the container without re-encoding the video, it'll deal with it fine.

It's a bit fussier with audio. Anything uncompressed - wav, or pcm - it's cool with. But it's fussy with other things, sometimes it'll play mp3 fine, sometimes not. It's usually cool with aac, although it tends to freak out if it's 5.1 instead of stereo.

Finally, you know, even with older stuff, I don't tend to feel like there's that much difference between using lossy and lossless stuff. Or like, what I mean is, if you rip at high enough quality you can tell the difference, it's too huge for distribution anyway, and honestly I can't even tell the difference on my laptop screen without actually pausing and specifically looking at/for the pixelation patterns. At a certain point I'm just not enough of a source obsessive to feel it's worth it, but as I said, I work with screens that can only handle 720p not true 1080p hd?

But also, stick with what is working for you, absolutely. And I have heard that clipping can be useful in rewatching. Honestly, I think my vidding would probably improve for more rewatching, but, um, lazy. ;)

[frayadjacent]

Thanks so much for the info! I will check that out!