Help with Cinerra
 

as all the forum links seem to be dead for this software,I was hoping I could get some help here since it runs under Ubuntu. I have had this problem with other software also. I want to open a file(In Cinerra) but the software open dialog box will not let me get to the files on my drives. If I could get to the media folder I could access all my drives. Does anyone have a solution other that having to copy my files to a directory under the home directory?
Thanks,
Paul

Are you talking about cinelerra?

It is supposed to be used in user space.

I do not know why your video files would be in /media but they should not be. They should be in a directory in user space.

You could use the bugger there by opening your root terminal and running;
This would open it as root. Then it could access files that it does not have permission, normally, to mess with. This is not a real good idea and will leave you with your output owned by root instead of your user.

Much easier to put the files where they belong with the correct permissions and ownership on them to start with.

This is an article that may help you understand the file system better;
http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/

You seem to want to mess with the system a good bit. This is a good thing, and FUN. It is more fun with a little information. This is a pretty good place to get general info on Linux;
http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org/cont...r-1-what-linux

I just deleted it. Other software suited my purposes better.
Thanks,
Paul

Ok, so your external drives mount, in the Debian branch anyway, in the /media file. I have 640Gb in an external enclosure that has 4 OS' and 2 large storage partitions.

The 3 HDDs mount in /media. The partitions mount normally in user space. All your flies go back to / if you think about it.

I have the external up right now and the path is /media/Holding-E/Debian for the file I am currently in.

Cinelerra is absolutely new to me. Just installed it about 2 weeks ago. However I do store my videos on a partition not in my OS although it is on the same drive. To make it easier to get into (not having to manually mount it each time I reboot), that partition is in in my fstab file and mounts that partition to /media.

Having just pulled up cinelerra I look for my video files. The path that Cinelerra is showing is /media/I-Holding/Holding/Catch-All/Video/Yup. Has the buggers all listed right there.

I do not know how long you have been playing with Linux but I can understand the frustrations. This is a link that I just fell on when I was feeling about the same. Have seen it linked a number of times since then. It is a good thing to read.
http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

I never felt that the MS system made any sense at all in the ten years I ran it. I am one of the few people that I know that regularly put off problems by directly replacing system files from my install disk to my installed OS so I got pretty familiar with it. Linux with its owner ship permissions and file structure (pretty much Unix) is quite a relief to me. You do need to understand the system. I may one of these days.

If you are having better luck with the Kdenlive package I would use it. While I do not like the KDE desktop at all (just grinds me the wrong way) a number of KDE packages are pretty nice to have around.

K3b is a standard install on all my installations, for instance. Every once in a while I will run into something that Brasero will not handle. I have Xfburn and K3b. All three use different backends so if one doesn't do the job one of the others will.

Cinelerra is the only vid editor I have on here. I have no idea how to even use the bugger. When I do I will be trying others. Why did I pick it first? The list I read was in alphabetical order.

This is something I know nothing about. I hope you do. You may come across questions about this editing business sometime next month (not a chance of time before that).

If you have an answer for me on this use small words for a total noob.

Well the so-called non-linear editors are fun to use. I used several windows one Like sony Vegas(both pro and Vegas movie), The adobe premier, Avg, Pinnacle, to name a few. They all operated about the same. This is intuitive at it's best. use one app, you are familiar with all. That's about the best thing about Windows, that and the file system. After I have a few years with linux, I may feel the same. I love the abilities to create dissolves and transitions where I want them, to create animated titles also. If you really want to get creative, design a title in Photoshop and import it in to the video editor.

[embarrassed] So you saw the post before I edited it(hehe)? I was just sounding off through frustration I guess. I see you found a way to access the drives huh? That good, I may come back to it. I left a post on the Kdenlive forum. I couldn't see my video after I loaded it. i would be editing blind, so to speak. I'm on openshot now. I like it. I seems much like the windows editors I was telling you about. As soon as I can figure out how to add a title that fades in and out It will be just what I want I think.

I know you know more about the workings of Ubuntu that i do please click on this link:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...85#post4463585 and advise me on this.
Thanks,
Paul

Over on the OpenLinux forum there is a gal that does this stuff as her job. She seems to really be impressed with OpenShot.

I have no idea what non-linear means but it sounds impressive.

Everybody needs to vent.

I will take a look over there but if you are installed on one partition it is a bugger to get more space safely.