[K12OSN] video editing software comments

Calvin Dodge caldodge at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 03:11:28 UTC 2006


On 10/27/06, Eric Brown <ericbrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to second Kivo.  I have never used it, but I know people
> who have and it came highly recommended.  BUT, it is my understanding
> that it would not be good to run it in a terminal environment.  If

Amen to that!  In fact, it even had problems (choppy video) running
directly on the computer, until I replaced the built-in video with an
add-on video card.

> you've ever done video editing on a Windows computer, you'll know that
> it is very processor intensive.  If you attempted to do the same thing
> on a terminal, which only gets a share of the processing power.  Plus,
> all that video has to go down the wire from the client to the server,
> then back to be displayed on the screen.

Network traffic is the bottleneck, for sure.

> And thanks Calvin.  I'm currently dual booting between XP (when I
> absolutely have to) and Ubuntu, with plans of never going to Vista.  I
> have to do a lot of video editing for my job, so I intend to use your
> hints.

Cool!

Calvin




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