Vegas video replacement for linux?
 

Anyone know of a good program that runs on linux that can do video capture and editing like Vegas video?

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Danielle

Thanks tony. I think that is what I was looking for.

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Danielle

Cinelerra is buggy. It won't work normally. It crashes twice a minute. In most cases videos won't play on Windows if encoded with it.

What do you recommend?

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Danielle

Any other recommendations?

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Danielle

I can't recommend anything because there's no any good video editor on linux. You can try http://jahshaka.org/. I didn't test it on linux, Windows only. It was unstable too.

Here's the bad news about using Linux: anything but very basic video editing isn't going to happen, unless you're willing to shell out major cash for professional apps the guys in Hollywood use (like Piranha), or at least a few grand on programs like Smoke from Autodesk, or you are a Linux programming guru, you won't like what's out there for Linux.

Cinelerra is a horribly buggy mess. In theory is actually great (lots of options and extensions and so on) but in practice I've had nothing but problems and it seems like that's the majority of people's experiences.

Kino: very basic, doesn't do HD of any kind last time I checked.
Jashaka: Buggy, incomplete, even more problems than Cinelerra.

There were a few others but they were so bad I already forgot them LOL

To sum it up, since I have read some good things from one or two Cinelerra users, maybe give it a shot and hope it jives with your system. BTW, even if Cinelerra does work for you (miracles do happen), it is still far more limited than Vegas, Premiere, FCP, Avid, and Smoke.

BTW, you could *TRY* running Vegas on Linux using Wine. Photoshop works that way, Premiere Pro doesn't...so I guess it's a gamble and maybe worth a spin?