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Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint
ubiquitin writes "To avoid confusion with the GIMP, the Film Gimp project has renamed itself to CinePaint. The project is essentially a legitimate fork of GIMP, and is focused on image manipulations for moving pictures." We've mentioned Film Gimp several times lately; it'll be even handier as programs like Cinelerra and Kino grow more polished.
this is like, way up there man, its like, oh my gosh
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It's always fun to be using software with a name that coincides with my favorite sexual role.
Interesting, but why does Slashdot lower the bar for weekend news items?
It's not like the story duplicates and Jon Katz writing didn't lower the bar enough already. Now you're writing about name changes to obscure Open Source projects.
Maybe it's just me, but is this really Stuff That Matters?
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CmdrTaco was renamed to "Cocksucking Malda" to avoid any confusion with a heterosexual.
I agree, Cinepaint is the best. FrIMP ? ;-)
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CinePaint? Not exactly a creative name. Out of the names mentioned as candidates in the press release, Film-Fu is easily the funniest. But I guess being funny isn't exactly what they wanted to achieve for "the most popular open source tool in feature motion picture work" ...
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Hard to believe GIMP has a topic of it's own, despite the fact this is the first story in the topic for over a year (see here), when overclocking (which I'd love to filter without removing hardware!)/individual BSD's/P2P (including the RIAA/MPAA/*AA)/and so on don't have topics!
Does this mean the developers have to park further away now?
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This is really cool. I used to think it was just another Open Source project where someone creates a SourceForge website and then abandons it two months later after no code is written.
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Gimp is a name subject to ridicule, at least now I can use something that dosen't sound lame.
What the heck is a "legitimate fork"? Does this mean that there are "rogue forks"? And, yes, I know what a "fork" is (IT and otherwise), but I've never heard of a legitimate fork.
What strikes me here is that if we're now going to call forks legitimate and rogue (or whatever), that implies that there's some authority in charge of authorizing or blessing these forks. Part of the beauty of OS is that a given project always stands the risk of losing mindshare with its user base to forks which may do a better job of fulfilling the needs of the community. Calling them "legitimate" or rogue or whatever you will, seems to be irrelevant.
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Thats two name changes. First gnome gets renamed to lame and now gimp to cinepaint. Maybe kde will drop the k and callthemselves something like teldkde (the extensible lame desktop killing desktop environment).
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I mean, how much credibility do you expect from the outside world by giving your project a cutesy name like "GIMP"? Last time I checked, that was a slang term for a cripple, and a not-very-nice slang term at that.
Maybe "Cinematic Layout Imaging Tool" might have been more in keeping with the spirit of cute acronyms.
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I once tried GIMP on Windows, but it opened up about a dozen independent windows such that it flooded the task bar beyond use. I wonder if CineGump (or whatever they will call it) will open up a window (task) for each film frame. That would like be really annoying, gals.
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How about Forrest Gimp?
Why fork?
Are there features going into CinePaint that aren't valid for GIMP? And the other way around?
It seems like both projects might benefit by staying more tightly coupled.
Too bad for the GIMP.
A lot of people had been hoping to see a backporting and/or merge between these two versions. This sounds like the architecture's going to be mainly irreparable.
Some people would really like to see deep color channels and stronger tools for doing compositing work on movie frames.
The more that digital cameras offer 12bpc RAW mode, the more the OSS world is lacking until GIMP can handle them well. Color corrections can and should be done with more bits, to avoid losing fine color integrity.
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to antidisestablismentarianzilla, it's bloated enough to deserver that title.
I agree with them. CinePaint is definitely a much more professional sounding name than FilmGimp was and also more than the other suggestions.
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If it had a name like FilmStudio, it would sound to me like an amateur effort (My First Film Studio?!?!), which we know it is not and would not have the success it will most certainly have in the future.
Well I like it anyway
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With all this rebranding going on i decided to change my name to !# thts Mr!#
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What can iMovie do, and why use it?
- Send iMovies to DVDs -- instantly
- Stunning Skywalker(TM) Sound Effects
- Convenient chapter markers
There's also a ton more features, such as real-time original image manipulation filters that allow you to create characters and picture transitions.For anything aside from 2048 dpi high-motion special effects, iMovie is the much better choice. It comes with every Mac computer. Can't beat that, plus you get the BSD core
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If you want more information, search about both projects, read their mailing lists and websites.
It had nothing to do with the failure of marketing tests with the brand name "File Cripple".
Why break away from the gimp name if its a fork?
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The project is essentially a legitimate fork of GIMP
Good, because you know how bad the "support" costs can get when you fork illegitimate chil... errr.... projects.
Second path, which seems to have been discarded by CinePaint people, is pushing the GEGL library ignoring old code, make small test apps, and then merge with GIMP. A more parellel aproach.
For GIMP people all is like in the past, no new hands helping, either with current project or with libraries for future one. For CinePaint they get a quick solution, but maybe a dead end. :(
Oh, well...
GIMP 1.3 does not have support for 16 bit per channel.
Is everyone on Slashdot a moron?
Maybe you should read your news here then.
I have one serious suggestion to make. Please port Gimp and CinePaint to KDE. The benefits are laying on the hands:
- C++ for rapid development
- QT/KDE for a seriously cool plattform
- Better maintainance
- More acceptance due to QT/KDE
Open cutting software. :)
I was reading this article and I saw the icon for the gimp, you know the weird looking dog creature. Well anyways it freaked me out when I saw its freaking eyes move! I kinda got scared... DAMN MOVING GIF FILES!
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It's an animated gif, the eyes move. I thought for sure I was hallucinating again only this time I'm not suffering from sleep deprevation. I was thinking maybe just a little bit too much Pepsi for me...or maybe the eyes don't move?? eh? eh?
then i am going to rape the corpse
in this case thats not porting... its rewritting code. waste of time.
however you want to write some wrappers for c++ or qt widgets, have at it.
Why not call it 'CinePint'?
To avoid confusion with MS Paint, the CinePaint project has renamed itself to Film Gimp.
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Did anyone notice that the icon for gimp is ANIMATED (his eys move) is this me, or is this the FIRST animated gif on slashdot??
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FilmGook, FilmNigger, FilmGreaser... the list goes on. What the fuck were they thinking, giving it a nice, inoffensive name like "CinePaint"? It makes absolutely no sense!
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A functional fork, to coin a term, is different. At my company, we have several different version of our client software, all of which does basically the same thing in different contexts. We organize this by placing most common functionality in a shared library, and using different code for each context (email integration, web client, desktop client, et cetera.) The codebases have enough different functionality that different code should be used, with common stuff in its own sandbox.
This is a good way to go. It encourages the core code to be put into a generic library. Having a GIMP for single images and a GIMP for sequential images will move the developers to code in a way that maximizes reuse. They're not (really) competing with each other, so there's nothing to lose by sharing. And they'll each have their own space to work in, without having a poorly-overloaded interface for both single and sequential images.
Or, they could not share code, and it could suck. But the incentive is there for sharing, and the architecture of both systems would naturally improve.
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In a case such as this where the project name changes, what happens to the CVS module name? Does it change as well? Is everyone required to re-pull the source from a new name? And finally, how is the history preserved?
Now without a lame name.
I have a website. It's about Macs.
I'm not suggesting there aren't any, just that I don't know of any. From the GTK world I have GIMP, Pan and XChat on my Windows laptop. They are certainly in varying stages of completeness, but they all work. In fact don't licencing issues mean that, for GPL Software at least, the "guarunteed portability" you speak of is irrelevant because QT isn't available under GPL on Windows so GPL apps built against QT can't be distributed?
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Now at least GPL'd software has a chance to be mainstream.
Using normal-sounding, non-GNU names suggests a mainstream product to the uninformed. What CIO wants to go into a board meeting to pitch a plan to save the company money by using "free" open-source software products that sound like GIMPs, DOPEs, Snakes, and coffee beans?? Non-technical types will think (s)He is out of their flippin' mind.
Now if only the KDE developers would stop naming everything with a K....
a usable UI, unlike its parent? If it does have a sane UI, would somebody please port it to the Gimp?
hum ?
After all GTK stands for GIMP Toolkit.
It's ludicrous for anyone outside the project to suggest a wholesale change from C/GTK+ to C++/QT. It's the people who work on the project who actually have to work with the code and it makes sense for them to work with what they are most familiar and comfortable with.
You will certainly not get "Better maintenance" or "rapid development" if you disenfranchise your developers. The "cool platform" and "more acceptance due to QT/KDE" just reek of KDE fanboy garbage.
If any of these theoretical reasons were practically significant then there'd be no need for a request to port GIMP. People would _want_ to use QT and Krita (or whatever) would be a significant app already.
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My 9th grade son has been using Cinelerra to put together several cinematography projects for school. It does crash occasionally so you want to make sure you save your layouts periodically, and it uses HUGE amounts of memory when loading in video files (it seems to want to store everything in memory), but it has a pretty decent set of features, including multi-layer editing, numerous effects and transitions, and clustered rendering. It may not be as mature as the best commercial packages, but it's already as good as or better than most of the low-end programs that come with most capture devices. He's been using Blender to do 3D titles and credits and stuff like that.
The combination of Cinelerra + Blender + FilmGimp is pretty decent considering it's all open source. You can do better with commercial software, but not without spending many thousands of dollars.
Oh bs. How could any Linux - the only OS this software supports - user not know what the Gimp is? It's been the only graphics editor of consequence since before linux was shipped in boxes.
Oh bs.
Exactly. I was joking. I see that you posted that as anonymous, so you may never read my reply.
Here I thought that i was just being really paranoid.
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the most important area to these guys. as far as i can tell, is getting it on to OSX and selling it(metaphorically speeking) to Mac users, if they wanted the package to have a future on the linux desktop surely they'd be working on porting to GTK2 and then to OSX from there.
just out of interest, what can one actually do with filmgimp, sorry, CinePaint? i built it the other day and tried to have a play around, could really work out how to do anything at all, and is it just me or is it strange that they leave script-fu's that don't work with the filmgimp plugin set in the distro?
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That's why the parent was modded funny...you don't seem to be very intelligent...
I've had FilmGimp sitting on my hard disk for several weeks now. And I can't figure out what makes it a cooler app than Gimp proper. I don't think FilmGimp is really of useful for the average GNU/Linux or *BSD user, who'll be more interested in ripping DVD's or VCD's than doing laborious frame-by-frame correcxtion. FilmGimp would be useful if it allowed the video component of a DivX file to be imported and reexported without it eventually losing sync with the audio. Let's say I want to titles (and not just subtitles) to the DivX. Or let's say, I shot a digital video, and I want to make a cheap but cool, special FX laden sci-fi web short.
the only OS this software supports
Not true. CinePaint runs on Linux (x86), IRIX (SGI MIPS), and Mac OS X. A Windows port is in the works.
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