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Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing
dmbkiwi writes "For a long time I've been a big fan of Kdenlive. I've written two articles about it. One is a general overview of video editing on Linux and the other is more specific to Kdenlive. For a number of years, video editing on Linux – at least at a consumer level — has been patchy at best. This is somewhat ironic given the heavy use of Linux in major Hollywood blockbuster film production. However, with the advent of Kdenlive, things are looking pretty good and with the release of version 0.8, there have been some great features added for the more advanced users, while still retaining a simple and easy to use UI."
No, it isn't. It's part of the stupidity to name everything for KDE with a "K" or KD or even KDE at the beginning. A cheap and failed attempt to copy the "i" meme from Apple
Apple fanboy, eh? KDE community has actually been using this naming convention for years and years and years, all the way from the beginnings of KDE. Way before Apple started using the 'i'-meme across the board of their products. So we could just as well claim Apple is the one copying the meme from KDE if we follow your logic.
Names for products need to be pronouncable, easy to remember and difficult to confuse. "Kdenlive" falls on all three counts. For starters, it helps if they're actually, you know, names, not random gobbled-together parts of words.
Random gobbled-together words or terms, eh? Like for example ColdFusion, RoboHelp, Alcohol 120% etc.? Those are all confusing names which really don't say much about the product itself and seem like completely random words. KDenlive ain't really different from those, it consists of two clear terms: KDE and enlive. I do agree that using 'KDE' or 'K' at the beginning of every damn application is silly, but...really, there's a lot of even worse names in the commercial space and yet many of those products are perfectly good and actually pretty successfull.