I recently talked about VLMC, or VideoLAN Movie Creator, a movie creator based on VLC, or VideoLAN Client, one of the better media players in existence. I talked about how it might be the movie maker for Ubuntu Linux, you can read more about it here. Since then, I have had a chance to test drive VLMC, in order to give you a review of it. Keep in mind, this is just a preliminary review, many features, layouts, and bugs, will change. If you want to install VLMC for yourself, be prepared, while it is certainly doable, be prepared, it’s not an easy thing to do, that is, unless you enjoy doing this sort of thing, or have already compiled VLC from source. Also, it is possible that I may have just gotten a bad build of VLMC, as when code is in such a young stage, bugs come and go very rapidly, and this YouTube video obviously has not had the same problems with it that I had.
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VLMC, a Preliminary Look
Jan 3
For ages, ubuntu has been hurt by the lack of video editors. Several years back, when cranky Ubuntu Forum goers were complaining about the lack of video editing software, I was always quick to point out Blender. However, it had several problems. First, it couldn’t capture film from a camcorder, meaning that you had to use a separate program to get the film off, I would recommend Kino. While it worked, it still was a clunky solution, getting video in one editor, exporting it, and then importing it into blender. The second problem was the raw power of Blender. You would start it up, and see a 3d modelling program, not knowing that it was a 3d modelling, animation, movie sequencer, UV editor, physics simulation for particles, cloth, other soft bodies, audio editor (albeit a really bad one), game engine, and more. Even those that stuck around long enough to get to the video sequencer, generally saw all the buttons, nobs, and switches, and ran. And to be honest, I don’t blame them. If I didn’t spend the time to learn blender several years back, because I wanted to do 3d modelling and animation, I would have run too. Read the rest of this entry »
