Cinelerra not ready for prime time? or Why can't I use this program

spindles · 03-25-2006, 02:26 AM

Well... I might give it a go tonight.
For other people looking for Cinelerra sources, try:
http://cvs.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.html

Lots of distros supported and variants for differnet processors -- with Suse Fedora Debian-x86 Ubuntu Debian PowerPC(g3). Slackware. Source.

Also documentation, tips, test clips and more.

hellodio · 03-25-2006, 04:59 AM

Thanks for the link to the site http://cvs.cinelerra.org. It seems to be more usefull than the official site (http://heroinewarrior.com).

spindles · 03-26-2006, 04:09 AM

hellodio, I took your advice and yesterday I started preparing to install Cinelerra2.
I'm still at it.
Have spent much time on updates and adding pre-requsites.
Almost done, except configure warns that uuid and its libraries cannot be found. I did install uuid but it may not be in the expected place.
Hopefully I will figure this out soon.
But if anyone has any tips on uuid I would appreciate hearing about it.
I want configure to be perfect because I don't want to do this twice.
I post a report eventually -- then we'll know whether a newbie can install Cinelerra2 from source.

hellodio · 03-26-2006, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by spindles

hellodio, I took your advice and yesterday I started preparing to install Cinelerra2.
I'm still at it.
Have spent much time on updates and adding pre-requsites.
Almost done, except configure warns that uuid and its libraries cannot be found. I did install uuid but it may not be in the expected place.
Hopefully I will figure this out soon.
But if anyone has any tips on uuid I would appreciate hearing about it.
I want configure to be perfect because I don't want to do this twice.
I post a report eventually -- then we'll know whether a newbie can install Cinelerra2 from source.

Didn't you try to install the RPM from http://kevb.net/files/RPM? (I got there via http://cvs.cinelerra.org).

spindles · 03-26-2006, 07:43 AM

Hi hellodio,
Actually I am talking to Kev B right now on IRC.
I went for the build from source. Kevin had rpms for suse9.0 and 9.2 but not 9.1, so I thought what the hell... build it, learn stuff.
BTW_______Nice helpful people on the cinelerra chat ____
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
...on the channel cinelerra on Freenode. If you don't know which server to connect to, try irc.freenode.net, port 6667
_____________

Update: (I am really doing too many things at once) Kevin says I should try one of the RPMs.
Will keep you posted.

spindles · 03-26-2006, 10:24 AM

Okay, I can confirm it: A newbie CAN install Cinelerra from source on Suse.
Since I had arrived at a good configure Kevin suggested I try the build instead of an rpm.
The first make was no good due to my not having all of ffmpeg installed, but after fixing that it installed okay.
Of course it took almost all the weekend to get the pre-requisites and dependencies organised. But then I am a slow-moving newbie.
And for the final steps I had handholding from Kevin B and hermanr on the cinelerra irc channel. But that's how it is with linux isn't it? -- stupid newbie meets helpful experienced people etc.

hellodio · 03-26-2006, 01:03 PM

Hi Spindles,
Congatulations! Experience in compiling from source is allways handy in Linux. I hope you will be able to edit your first movie very soon. Will you let us know if you succeeded in making a DVD compliant mpeg2 movie? And how you did it?