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Free Realtime Video Editing for Linux

Posted by Roblimo on from the things-we've-been-hoping-for dept.

paRcat writes "Broadcast 2000 Final has been released. To those that are into realtime 640x480 video editing, this is good. It's an awesome package, and all free! Here's the link." Has anybody out there tried this yet? It sounds great, but so far we haven't been able to dig up anyone who's actually worked with this software to get their take on it.

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  1. On a similar note... by Booker · · Score: 4
    Josh Pieper just announced on the v4l-list that he has put together an MMX enhanced mpg1 encoder - to the tune of an 85% speed improvement:
    Hello all,

    For those of you creating mpeg-1 movies out there, I have added some preliminary MMX optimizations to the stock Berkely MPEG-1 encoder. I have obtained about an 85% speedup on my tests compressing videocd data. Up to 6.9 fps, from 3.7 fps on my PII 333.

    I have used this together with a stdout-enabled mpeg2decode to recompress mp1e created streams at lower rates. It has no MMX detection, and I am not an intel performance expert, so it's not all the way optimized. I figured it could save some of you quite a few clock cycles.

    The URL is: http://www.umr.edu/~jjp

    Thanks,
    Josh Pieper

    Wow... synergy...
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  2. I hope this is real. by VValdo · · Score: 4
    this would really put a lot of power in the hands of normal people-- video is replacing print (or at least supplimenting it) as a primary means of self-expression and giving a free editing system to the people means taking power away from the media giants and select few who have the $ to purchase such equipment.

    I mean, if we're going to have a million TV stations on the internet running out of people's homes, we have to have a way for those people to edit their shows, right?

    Avid (makers of $100K non-linear editor systems) better watch its ass. I knew this kind of thing was an inevitability, but didn't realize it would be available so soon.

    Here are some other links to similar projects:

    http://www.geocities. com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/6309/index.html - the Free Film Project
    Freefilm.linuxbox.com - not up yet, but coming

    Of course the big players now in this industry are Avid (with the Media Composer, Film composer, Digidesign (Protools), etc.), Media 100, and Adobe (who has Premiere 5.x). If this actually exists, man, that would be great!

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  3. Sweet! by Mullen · · Score: 4

    Now I can make commerical quality p0rn at home with my Linux box (No pun intended!). I just bet this is what Linus was thinking when he started making Linux!

    However, on a serious note, this is cool. Now if I could get Quake3 to give me a serious Frame Rate, I would *finally* be happy.

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    Linux O Muerte!
  4. this is why the BeOS should go OSS by passion · · Score: 4

    If Jean Louis were to follow the pack and go with digital democracy, open-sourcing the BeOS could push this sort of thing into overdrive. To combine the digital media capabilities with the most peer-reviewed OS around has got to be a great thing.

    Until that time, Linux should probably focus on building market share by improving the Gimp and developing a strong vector graphics app to compete with the main 2 commercial OSes. Only by gaining a market share by slowly building people's confidence in the product can attract the proper attention. Otherwise, you'll get Joe Hollywood-Wannabe trying this system out, and finding the man pages way too convoluted to follow. Video editing for Linux will gain a bad rap and go by the wayside, unfortunately crippling an otherwise fat-potential business within the next handfil of years.

    By the way, aside from pure evolution - what kinds of long-term goals do the Linux community forsee?

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  5. Not Bogus by wharfrat · · Score: 4

    This is real. I have used this, it works well. If your not going to download it that is fine. But it is real. I am running it on my Pentium 200 mmx (not a PII). With a SB16 kernel driver. No OSS-Comercial.
    I am not using the Video features, just the Audio. For Audio it is the fastest editor for Linux.
    If you are still a sceptic, but want to believe. Check out freshmeat.
    Look up the previos version Broadcast on the net.
    This is real, I guess you nay-sayers just don't have faith in Open Source -- or know what it means.

  6. Another NLE project by esca · · Score: 5

    I've been working on a GPL'd video editor for unix for sometime now.
    I'm looking for people willing to help with the project.

    http://www.crow.atu.com.au

    Eric

  7. bc2k by wharfrat · · Score: 5

    I downloaded the Binary version of this early this morning. Very Impressed. I had played with a Beta, this is much better. Just the nonlinear sound editing capabilities alone are unmached in Linux or GPL software -- let-alone the video. This version has support for any sound card supported by the kernel, the previos version Broadcast. This is a major leap in the Field of MultiMedia for Linux. As well as the buz in the SoundStudio mailing list. Personaly I had a fear this would not be GPL, as this was a major project, and it was not GPL in the BETAs. In fact the BETAs I saw had timebombs in them, they would expire.