I'm actually glad you wrote your review the way you did: as a normal user who doesn't have the patience and fortitude to keep persisting with software that doesn't work straight-away. As in: the usual Windows-software user: Linux users are typically a bit more persistent and more forgiving of software quirks. So, well done - good perspective.
I'm a huge fan of Blender: build my own from git from time to time, just to get the latest-greatest. Saying that, I couldn't quite nut out the video end of things, and put it down to Blender being more of 3D-modelling/game dev software with the video end of things being for recording animation and not so much for editing existing video. So, I read with some surprise that someone in the film industry would find Blender to be the best tool available for that purpose. I think I need to revisit Blender again for video editing!
I've actually invested in Lightworks - used the freeware Linux version when it was still in beta and have since gone to the full (subscription) Linux version since. There is no question even to this non-industry-hobbyist that it is a sophisticated tool and works fantastically well at what it does, so whilst Blender has some surprisingly advanced features, it might be worth your while to have another look at Lightworks, perhaps on a Debian-based system instead of RedHat. Dunno. Don't think it actually qualifies as open-source, though... not really. I have yet to find any source-code available anywhere for this product.
I have run Lwks on maya and now qiana (Linux Mint) and it runs flawlessly. Nice thing about Linux is that distros don't cost anything but time: you can always run another flavour for a specific purpose. Interestingly, I now run Windows that way: for a specific software that only runs acceptably in Windows on bare metal; Poser Pro 2014. For everything else, Mint is my distro of choice for ease of use and flexibility.
Thanks again for the article - nice to see someone writing from a non-FOSS-user perspective.
"Every year my options have just gotten better and better, and it is to the point where I feel constricted when I have to use anything else."
Precisely. Every now and then I have to go back to MS products because work requires it or because I'm cleaning up someone's system. Restrictive is the exact word. It's a relief to get back to Mint.
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I'm actually glad you wrote your review the way you did: as a normal user who doesn't have the patience and fortitude to keep persisting with software that doesn't work straight-away. As in: the usual Windows-software user: Linux users are typically a bit more persistent and more forgiving of software quirks. So, well done - good perspective.
I'm a huge fan of Blender: build my own from git from time to time, just to get the latest-greatest. Saying that, I couldn't quite nut out the video end of things, and put it down to Blender being more of 3D-modelling/game dev software with the video end of things being for recording animation and not so much for editing existing video. So, I read with some surprise that someone in the film industry would find Blender to be the best tool available for that purpose. I think I need to revisit Blender again for video editing!
I've actually invested in Lightworks - used the freeware Linux version when it was still in beta and have since gone to the full (subscription) Linux version since. There is no question even to this non-industry-hobbyist that it is a sophisticated tool and works fantastically well at what it does, so whilst Blender has some surprisingly advanced features, it might be worth your while to have another look at Lightworks, perhaps on a Debian-based system instead of RedHat. Dunno. Don't think it actually qualifies as open-source, though... not really. I have yet to find any source-code available anywhere for this product.
I have run Lwks on maya and now qiana (Linux Mint) and it runs flawlessly. Nice thing about Linux is that distros don't cost anything but time: you can always run another flavour for a specific purpose. Interestingly, I now run Windows that way: for a specific software that only runs acceptably in Windows on bare metal; Poser Pro 2014. For everything else, Mint is my distro of choice for ease of use and flexibility.
Thanks again for the article - nice to see someone writing from a non-FOSS-user perspective.
"Every year my options have just gotten better and better, and it is to the point where I feel constricted when I have to use anything else."
Precisely. Every now and then I have to go back to MS products because work requires it or because I'm cleaning up someone's system. Restrictive is the exact word. It's a relief to get back to Mint.