Well, first off, as you know, I reject the idea that anyone "ought" to want to change vidding programs if they're happy. After all, I stuck with WMM for the LONGEST time, because I wanted to, and that was the right choice.
Frankly, a lot of the stuff made available by Cinelerra is probably already available even in midlevelish Vegas - cus I always thought of Vegas at the higher end of midlevel. Plus...if you're not going to use the stuff, then what's the point?
But I can absolutely promise you that the program is not as complicated as that screencap makes it look. It's just ugly and scary looking which was the point of the illustration.
For example, as I said, the only reason there are four tracks there is because I kept trying new stuff behind the Starbuck Mask and since I didn't want to have to *re-* do it if I wanted to go back to an earlier version, I just used the track above to vid "over" it temporarily.
As to the lines running along the tracks - the white one is the fade in-fade out line. The blue one is zoom, the red one is left/right panning and the green one is up/down panning. Those are the histograms I talk about above.
On the Starbuck Mask track, the green...blobs are keyframes where I've moved the mask in some way.
All these things can be easily displayed or hidden if you don't want the track cluttered. For instance, in the above screencap I've also chosen to hide the effects which usually show up beneath the clips like...long, thing brownish red strips with the title of the effect printed on them.
And, now that you know what all that crap is, I imagine it looks a lot more like an ordinary timeline? I hope?
Basically next time I see you, if you want, I can walk you through it a little, just for curiosity's sake and you'll see that...it's not confusing just...confusingly designed at first?
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Date: 2010-01-16 11:39 am (UTC)Frankly, a lot of the stuff made available by Cinelerra is probably already available even in midlevelish Vegas - cus I always thought of Vegas at the higher end of midlevel. Plus...if you're not going to use the stuff, then what's the point?
But I can absolutely promise you that the program is not as complicated as that screencap makes it look. It's just ugly and scary looking which was the point of the illustration.
For example, as I said, the only reason there are four tracks there is because I kept trying new stuff behind the Starbuck Mask and since I didn't want to have to *re-* do it if I wanted to go back to an earlier version, I just used the track above to vid "over" it temporarily.
As to the lines running along the tracks - the white one is the fade in-fade out line. The blue one is zoom, the red one is left/right panning and the green one is up/down panning. Those are the histograms I talk about above.
On the Starbuck Mask track, the green...blobs are keyframes where I've moved the mask in some way.
All these things can be easily displayed or hidden if you don't want the track cluttered. For instance, in the above screencap I've also chosen to hide the effects which usually show up beneath the clips like...long, thing brownish red strips with the title of the effect printed on them.
And, now that you know what all that crap is, I imagine it looks a lot more like an ordinary timeline? I hope?
Basically next time I see you, if you want, I can walk you through it a little, just for curiosity's sake and you'll see that...it's not confusing just...confusingly designed at first?