So, in case you’ve been spending last 24 hours under some sort of rock, Sintel short animation movie is available on-line now. There are two interviews with team members already published that I know of: the one with Ton Roosendaal done by Andrew Price and the one with David Revoy done by truly yours.
Naturally, after having viewed the epic several times I couldn’t resist blogging about my personal impression. I actually take pills to prevent that. If only they helped Continue reading ‘On “Sintel”’
I’ve been diving into screencasting and video editing lately. Sadly none of currently existing tools quite worked for me.
PiTiVi. Simple and almost all I wanted (I really am not into effects, just fades would do), but latest stable version doesn’t properly render videos that have still images. You need version from Git and most recent GStreamer.
OpenShot. Doesn’t read OGV files from recordMyDesktop, snapping is broken, overall sluggish feeling.
Kdenlive. That’s where my hope was. Doesn’t read OGV as well, but xvidcap sort of worked. Unfortunately the version I have renders heavily unsynced audio and video. In fact, depending on a codec it will render different incorrect versions of original clip.
I’ve seen some other editors and I was genuinely unimpressed.
The solution? Blender’s video sequencer. Even now I can’t believe I’m saying that. I’ve been neglecting Blender as a production tool for quite a long time. I used to say that all this soon-blender-will-do-it-all is just childish. But hey, this morning it took me about 20 minutes to twist my head around some basics concepts and then I just sat down and compiled a short clip and it all rendered like a charm.
The video in question? Oh, it’s just an early experiment
Okay, so we know which projects are picked for Google Summer of Code 2010 now. As you know, one of the points of GSoC is getting new people to free open source projects. Does it actually work?
