Blender Gets Audio Sequencing

Qbertino writes "The universal GPLd 3D tool Blender that was bought free by the Blender community not so long ago, has gotten audio sequencing added to its feature set. This has been missing ever since the integrated Video NL (Non-Linear) Editor/Sequencer was introduced. The only other 3D package known for its integrated Video NLE is the proprietary Houdini, which also runs under Linux but comes at something like $3000 for its small featureset. This finally gives the OSS community a lightweight alternative to this and eases syncing 3D animation and audio a great deal. Audio sequencing will be integrated in the upcoming 2.28 release of Blender. Early adopters can download here."

Comments

It doesn't make too much sense

[Samir Gupta]

Just like those all-in-one cell phones, or printers/copiers/scanners/faxes, I suspect that they will have to compromise on quality, lest they end up with some bloated software product.

I'd much rather have separate best-of-breed software packages, than an integrated one that does everything OK, but not great.

Counterparts to Photoshop, Maya

[digitalhermit]

Blender is definitely a great success story. Like Gimp is to Photoshop, Blender is to Maya. Though Photoshop is still the heavyweight tool for photo manipulation and though I'm an experienced Gimp user, I know that there are things that Photoshop can do that Gimp cannot do as easily. But the $500 price tag for Photoshop makes me a big, big Gimp fan. It does everything I need. Same for Blender. It is not in the same class as Maya but with a little work, can do many of the same things. In fact, it's at the point where it competes well against many of the lower end commercial packages costing hundreds of dollars.

Re:Counterparts to Photoshop, Maya

[the_real_tigga]

Like Gimp is to Photoshop, Blender is to Maya.

AAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHA!

I like blender but this is hilarious.
Have you ever even *glimpsed* at the things Maya can do?

Re:Counterparts to Photoshop, Maya

[Anonymous Coward]

Gimp is useful to some casual users. But it lacks many basic elements of a professional tool of its category. Here's a missing function that you don't hear about that often, but I promise you it's a biggie: STEP AND REPEAT.

I've gone looking for an analog to this in the Gimp interface and Gimp manual. It simply doesn't exist. The closest thing to it --"offset cloned layers"-- just doesn't WORK.

It *does* make sense

[AsparagusChallenge]

Blender's primary target is to be able of making ready-to-publish video from scratch. Composing audio is a priority, unless you aim to recreating the beginnings of cinema.

How in the ... ?!

[gergi]

I'm totally impressed. I can't even figure out how to use blender much less resequence my audio (or whatever)!

Seriously... Anyone out there know how to use Blender? Wanna send me some links to documentation, particularly tutorials? Even better would be tutorials that are up-to-date!

Kudos to the Blender community!

[stox]

The Blender project is a major milestone in the progression of open source software. For the first time, a closed project was brought into the open by the users. Compared to others, they have been remarkably fast at bringing a working product to market. They have also been extremely responsible in respect for copyright, and are currently helping to bring more closed work into the open. This project is one class act, and I hope that their model is extremely successful.

Re:OSS is feature obsessed

[Hamster Of Death]

Simply because fixing bugs is boring and often tedious. Not many people get their kicks bug fixing. Writing new features is much more appealing since it is a) new and b) makes Open Source Project X that much more comparable to Closed Source Project Y

So new features are added first because they are fun and increase product visibility. Bugs often take a back seat due to the drudgery associated with them.

Now that that's taken care of

[fluxrad]

How's about someone get to work on a fully featured audio sequencer for linux?

I'm super happy that we can now sync music to animation in blender. It's just too damned bad we don't have an app to actually make that music in linux.

Undo?

[Tyler Eaves]

Okay, and UNDO is going to be implemented when? Seriously, I can't take a graphics package without an UNDO feature seriously.

Closed source is feature obsessed

[FooBarWidget]

why o why are closed sourcecompanies obsessed with features ? why cant you fkin fix bugs instead of the current obsession with adding more and more features that add more bugs making it even more unstable, is it boredom or pride ?

do yourselves a favour and make the original application perfect ie: bug free , before adding more features/bloat?

MS word gets more and more features every release, and most users don't even use a lot of those features. photoshop gets more and more features every release, while most non-professionals and home users don't even need everything photoshop can do.

*sigh*

Now back to reality. Why do you blame OSS? Closed source is no different. If anything, it's *closed source products* that add more and more features without looking back. Compare the latest version of Opera with Opera 3. On the other hand, compare GNOME 2 with GNOME 1: they actually cleaned up the GUI and *removed* a lot of config options and replaced them with sane defaults and autodetection, sped up Nautilus many times, and fixed numberous of bugs.

As for your Mozilla comment: Mozilla is meant to turn out this way. The Mozilla browser suite as we know it is just a "technical demo": it was never meant to be the final product. Mozilla was destined to split off in seperate products that use the same browser engine.