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#1 2011-06-04 12:32:46

Włóczymyśl
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From: Poland, Szczecin
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Video edit is slow and unstable

When I'm editing video files with PiTiVi, Cinelerra, LiVES (doesn't matter) it's so laggy when I already have a little more pieces of video than a couple... then I need to save a lot cuz the software goes down very often. How to partition the disk in order to master the video editing possibilities? Or maybe some other tricks with the OS? My hardware is not THAT bad (Intel i7, 4GB RAM) so I believe I really could use it to work... while I can't. ;c

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#2 2011-06-04 14:14:22

cell
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Re: Video edit is slow and unstable

Video editing under linux is just not all that awesome. One application you did not mention that might be worth a try is openshot.
Other then that pitivi has released 0.14 but it has yet to be updated to the repos - http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/pitivi/ 
There's a PKGBUILD for the git version of pitivi in AUR or  you could edit a couple of lines in the original PKGBUILD and give it a go.

http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … tivi/trunk

pkgver=0.14.0
pkgrel=1
optdepends=('frei0r-plugins: get more video effects')
conflicts=('pitivi-git')
options=()
source=(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/$pkgname/0.14/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
sha256sums=('d5ab54c1c4c7c1431fc3da67e977a9d94eb0828246ec2bb4e420de49cf5df629')

If this will fix any of your issues I do not know but I mention 0.14 as it should have some nice improvements -
http://thiblahute.blogspot.com/2011/05/ … ttens.html

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#3 2011-06-04 14:29:36

Włóczymyśl
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Re: Video edit is slow and unstable

I tried git version and I had all the issues present, then I used the version from [community] as I thought it may be more stable... it wasn't; then I tried Lives and Cinelerra-cv and Lives seems the most usable but not perfect. Openshot is too primitive for my needs. So again, I believe it's not because of video editing software, it seems like my PC just not have enough power but still, in theory it has! So basically you are saying that it's Linux itself, right? It sux much as I don't use Windows for 5 years now and it was obvious for me that it can be set to do any job better, just needs some work... was I wrong? You see, MacOS is Unix too and it's great for video editing as I heard... so I thought it's just the case of settings, like maybe big temp partition (is it really matter if I gave my system really big root or separate temp?) or some other filesystem, like xfs maybe... dunno, I just feel bad as I can't edit all my movs in some respective manner. ;c

Edit:
Blender is working fine and I heard it has linear video editing capabilities so I will give it a try but I'm a little scared of the interface. wink

Last edited by Włóczymyśl (2011-06-04 14:30:58)

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#4 2011-06-04 14:40:42

cell
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Re: Video edit is slow and unstable

If you are doing the next King Kong movie then yes I would think twice before using linux as a platform if you are doing a smaller or home project then you should be fine smile As for applications being crash prone or unstable I suppose the best fix would be to report bugs and try out new version of software.

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#5 2011-06-04 20:37:18

Włóczymyśl
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Re: Video edit is slow and unstable

the lack of other replies made me think that your statement need to be taken as a dogma so thanks for sad true... ;c

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