It’ll All End In Tears
So it looks like my great Ubuntu experiment is over. I’ve just ordered my new Canon 7D and was planning on shooting a lot of HD footage with it. Turns out no Linux program handles HD very well at all, there are ways to get it working apparently.
But it seems awful bloody difficult. It’ll be hard enough getting my head around editing video never mind having to worry about re-encoding the video and all that craic.
Sorry open source.
You have failed me.
Oh in case any one was wondering I ended up using RawTherapee for my raw editing, it’s little buggy but it mostly works very similar to the raw converter in photoshop, all sliders, which I was very happy about.
It actually gives you more options for tweaking in some areas and has a sharpening tool built into the converter.
One of the main problems with it is that when you straighten a picture the image just goes black. However the small preview image in the corner is still visible.
I might try and run it in Windows when I switch back, see if I have better luck.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
I’m Ubuntu-less as well at the moment. I was rarely using the old desktop in my room, and it was taking up a lot of space, so I dropped it into Camara (www.camara.ie), at least it’ll end up doing something more worthy than gathering dust
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March 9th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
dont stress Paudie, when the shit hits the fan and things start getting difficult, people always go back to the most tried & tested OS- windows.
Let me know if you want a copy of Win7, I’d be glad to help you out – its Vista but without the perf issues, and a better UI experience. For once, MS did stuff right and just worked on getting things working efficiently instead of packing in new ‘features’.
Or you could spend an extra 1000E on a Mac ‘etch a sketch’…
March 9th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Ha, Mac you’re funny Dave.
Going to save up (again) and get a 64bit machine for the HD video, will get Windows 7 then for sure.