Building The Ultimate Video Editing Suite

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday December 10, 2003 @10:39PM from the pan-and-zoom dept.

PlainBlack writes "Once upon a time, I was the Chief Engineer at a small TV station, but got out of that line of work about the time that people were talking about replacing video tapes with hard drives. Now I'm looking to build myself a professional grade editing suite using only open source tools so that I can dump as much money as possible into the hardware. My question to Slashdot is, what are the best open source tools for such a suite? I'll need both video and audio editing; a bank of wipes, fades, and other effects; a great paint program; and a titler (text overlays)."

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What a bunch of cheapskates and freeloaders by rudy_wayne · 2003-12-11 00:45 · Score: 0, Troll

"Now I'm looking to build myself a professional grade editing suite using only open source tools so that I can dump as much money as possible into the hardware."

In other words, you want soneone to write a "professional grade editing suite" and then make it available to you for free. Why exactly would you expect that? Please explain.