Re: kino will be only a dv editor forever?

Dan, thanks a lot for your words, tips and explanations...

This is one of the many things that I love about free software... the
connection... real software makers talking with "just" users... its
wonderful to be part of all of this......

best regards,
luciano

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Dan Dennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Luciano A. Ferrer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Kino will be only a dv editor forever?
>
> Looks that way.
>
>> No other codecs?
>
> Nope. I have stopped working on Kino, but someone else could take over
> or fork it.
>
>> I love kino, especilly the "slice" functions... mark escenes, export,
>> export video/audio, etc...
>> but its time consuming (and not to talk about hard disk space used) to
>> convert all the videos to DV... even when you do not need a DV
>> quallity (or even when you do not need video at all)
>
> Agreed, but it was made only for DV and miniDV camcorder owners. The
> foreign import function was added to let one use non-DV assets with a
> DV project. I needed to keep it simple until my skills developed, and
> I wanted to see good I could make it handling the unique aspects of DV
> without dealing with the constraints of generic and abstract APIs.
>
>> btw, can you recommend me other apps to do "slice" tasks nicely?
>
> I am helping with kdenlive now, which is multi-format/codec.
>
> --
> +-DRD-+
>

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