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Has anyone used an OpenSource video editor?

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by jdclyde

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Over the weekend, I set ThingTwo (my boy) up with his first linux desktop (Mint, Felicia).

It does the browsing (FF) and IM (pidgin), which is about all he needs out of a PC.

What would make this sweet to help with his video editing class (high school, they use Adobe) is if I could find him a comparable video editor for linux.

I will be surfing some of the linux sites to see what is available, but was looking for some personal feedback on which ones you liked or didn't like.

[i]Side note, he WAS on a P4 2.4 with a gig of ram, is now on P4 1.5 with 512 ram. I didn't tell him what the specs were for the system, we just loaded it and let him play. A few hours later I got a "Wow dad, this is a LOT faster". B-)

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by the 'g-man.'

If you give him another editor then when in class he needs to use Adobe. Thus project work saved in Adobe will not work on ANOTHER perhaps. Best to check any compatability issues and find out if there is an exam in Adobe at the end.

PS: What happened to his better specced system?

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by jdclyde

so he can do homework.

Also, if we had this system going, the instructor has already shown an interest in some of the projects we have done, and might consider advocating to change the labs from Adobe and windows to linux and open source. With all the budget shortfalls, not paying all the licensing fees is a big saver.

To make this a zero risk trial for him, we just set the other system off to the side. If things didn't work out for him, we just drop the old system back in place and keep going. If it does work out, we will wipe the faster system and make that another linux desktop.

by jdclyde

From my browsing this morning, LiVES looked interesting as well.

http://lives.sourceforge.net/index.php?do=downloads

Will just have to do them both and decide between them, huh? The boy has a 20 gig drive with most of that free. Told him we would go to a larger drive when we do the wipe/reload.

I wanted him to just get used to use the linux desktop first, and then we are going to reload it from scratch, with him doing most of the work. Got a 120gig drive ready to go for him. :D

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