There are some promising improvements in Ubuntu 8.04. I’ll have to try an upgrade, maybe even to fix the boot sequence of my Linux drive (after my repairs, it is reporting Error 17 on boot). Simplified X11 configuration, support for multiple monitors of differing sizes, and that new audio system are all promising.
I might just need to fire it up today just so that I can try taking a binary dump of a flash card to try to recover all the photos and videos I lost. The data recovery worked partially. I lost all my MP3s. Most were truncated, all the file names were lost and the organization of them. The same unfortunately applies for a detailed set of films and photos I took of some archaeological sites in Crete, and a hiking trip through the Samarian Gorge.
I’m still very bitter about that.
In the meantime, I’m downloading Adobe Premiere elements. Can somebody explain to me why I might want to consider comparing it to Broadcast2000/Cinelerra/Open Movie Editor
You can watch the history of Linux video editing unfold with these three apps:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/11/magazine/broadcast2000.html
Of course I can’t actually get it to work, and nothing in Linux seems to have a deshake filter, so while it is almost there, it took 8 years to get there, and there are free tools in Windows that get most of the job done, but still leave me quite willing to fork out $100 for a reasonable tool. Wine doesn’t seem to cut it for the free Windows tools.
Film Gimp/Cinepaint and Open Movie Editor might help me in 2012. In 2008, I just don’t have time to think about it.
Time to take the Richard Stallman Philosophy. I think it was Richard Stallman, the idea that if there is no free software available to do what you need to do, then it’s reasonable to use commercial software.
