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Editshares Lightworks – the next linux killer app?

Oct 132012

It certainly can not be said that for Linux there is no easy-to-use and functional video software. Kdenlive and OpenShot for example, are members of this genus. But what about the professional segment? Do you know professional Linux video software to cover the (post) production workflow? Lightworks for Linux is approaching the public testing. So the cards in professional video editing with Linux and open source will be reshuffled soon.

Red Shark attack – Video Software bites and beats

Later this month the first test version of Editshares Lightworks will be shown, which runs on Linux boxes. Shortly thereafter, the Mac version will follow. The video software has a great tradition in the video section and is still involved in the post-production of famous Hollywood movies. What is Blender 3D for professional Renderers, the Lightworks could be for professional video editors on Linux. When the source code finds its way to the community is still unclear.

Lightworks – changes for Linux

First pictures of Lightworks on Ubuntu

About 95% of the original code has been found the way to the Linux version. The rest consists significant adjustments to the open source operating system. For example, the GPU accelerated effects and video output using Directx on Windows was replaced by OpenGL. The implementation of an efficient multi-threading was one of the hurdles that had to be taken.

EditShare is increasing its activities

In early October EditShare has established with Redsharknews.com a news page with the latest information for professional visualization. In the name of Lucy, the red Lightworks mascots, there are quite a lot of informative articles. This benefits not only according to data from EditShare, almost 400 000 users of the professional video software. A good tip for video enthusiasts and techies.

Lightworks – Cross Platform Video Editor with future

Not only steven spielberg loves it

ıllıllı Even the known video software with professional ambitions Cinelerra includes many effects and functions but it has also clear limits. Moreover, the update policy of Heroine Virtual Ltd.. does also not look better. From the Cinelerra-Fork Lumiera long time nothing could be heard too.

It is expected that Lightworks goes another way. By the impending availability on multiple platforms video data could to be exchanged and processesed in heterogeneous environment structures .

I think LightWorks will be the best Linux Video editor for the final touch in professional video workflow.

Even though EditShare with the Pro version followed commercial goals, the marketing will surely benefit the community variant with updates and stability. Lightworks will help to spread Linux as a professional video editing platform. As a Linux beta testers I’m looking forward to the end of October and i hope that the Editshare is doing their homework well to give us a stable Linux version. Because especially for video production in addition to the main features, stability and speed are important, right? ıllıllı

Open source VFX-pipeline – 3D Software Blender 2.64 released

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Oct 062012

A small change in version number after the decimal point, a big step for the professional 3D renderer. The current version of Blender benefits from some new opportunities in the areas of video and film technology. Next, there were a few updates to the GPU supported Cycles engine. But the modeling of 3D objects has been extended too.

Current Blender movie Tears of Steel

Current Blender film Tears of Steel! has improved the 3D software Blender strongly. Many new features were added in this release, as well as many fixes to previous bugs have made it into the current version of Blender. According to the developers, the focus this time was on the realization of a complete VFX pipeline with improved motion tracking, a planar tracker, better green screen keying and a new mask editor.

What’s new in Blender 2.64?

Cycles rendering received many smaller features and improvements for the use and in the engine area.

Sculpting now supports masks, and a skin modifier was added to quickly pull over a model of skeletons with a surface. The game engine was improved with better shadows and physics options and Collada export now has more options for export to other game engines.

Masks can now be created in the image and video editor, used in compositing and animation works also. The motion tracking is pleased with finer control and standardization of operation.

A few improvements, the game engine has gotten. There were as mentioned, a couple of updates in the field of light and shadow effects.

With more Multithreading the Cycles renderer has been improved. Moreover, the so-called Fisheye camera rendering is supported.

All the highlights of the new Blender version shows the complete changelog.

Blender 2.64 can be downloaded here for all current systems.

Tears of 3D software competitors

ıllıllı For many applications, the 3D software Blender is now on par with commercial software. When the development continues in this way, we can look forward to see the first full-length film created entirely with Blender and Open Source. ıllıllı

OpenShot 1.4.3 – Translations Needed for the video editor

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Oct 012012

Linux users are always happy for useful video software. The Video Editor OpenShot shines even more by a neat, simple user interface and a workflow as smooth as possible. With the seemingly soon OpenShot 1.4.3 are some innovations in the pipeline.

However, any help with linguistic skills is needed to provide the video software to a wider audience.

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Tears of Steel – Watch the new Blender movie and preview of the DVD extras

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Sep 262012

What can cause, when someone chooses the wrong partner, in the current film of the Blender Open Movie project is shown. Unlike the previous productions of the project Tears of Steel is not pure 3D animation.

Here blend live action and 3D scene, thus bringing glory of the meaning of the 3D software.

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Switch to Multimedia Linux Part 9 – It is also safe?

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Sep 252012

Currently advise experts discourage them from using the Internet Explorer. For example, the german Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) give the advice not to use the widespread MS browser.

Hackers use a newly discovered error. This vulnerability would be being exploited in targeted attacks. Moreover, the attack code is also freely available on the Internet, the BSI writes on his website.

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Blender movie Tears of Steel in the Internet and premiere in hollywood

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Sep 212012

What Pixar, DreamWorks, Weta and the Blender Open Movie project next Friday have in common?

The ASIFA-Hollywood – the society of animation studio shows alongside two movies also the latest official Blender short movie Tears of Steel. To the delight of all those who can not be present in L.A., the Internet premiere is something before.

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Universal 3D renderer Luxrender 1.0 with Retina display support

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Sep 202012

After the fourth release candidate of the 3D renderer LuxRender now the stable version 1.0 was released.

Once goals have been achieved, such as increased stability, the developers have focused on other features.

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10 years Blender 3D software – special conference for the anniversary

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Sep 172012

In 2002, the idea for the Blender 3D software became reality. It is now 10 years ago. One reason to hold this year’s annual conference of Blender to mark this anniversary.

The cornerstone for the 3D software was laid in 1995.

First Blender splash screen

In this year the Dutchman Ton Roosendaal, chief of the 3D animation studio NeoGeo saw that the company’s internal 3D software was too old and too cumbersome to manage and thereby reprogramming from scratch essential was required.

The idea of blender was born. In 1998 the company founded Not a Number Technologies to finalize and distribute Blender. The project was not successful, so the company went down the drain.

One man’s trash is communities treasure.

After the bankruptcy the disappointed financiers agreed to put Blender for an amount of € 100,000 under the free software license GNU General Public License (GPL).

To achieve the goal of collecting this sum in the form of donations, Ton Roosendaal founded in 2002, the Blender Foundation. The collection was a great success. The open source community was delighted when the goal was reached after a short time.

Since 2003 blender gets regular updates and regular Open Movie projects just like Elephants Dream, in 2006 and the current project will bring the 3D software a good bit forward.

Blender 3D Software Conference 2012

The next annual conference will be held as usual in Amsterdam’s De Balie, this time from 12th – 14th October.

Suzanne, one of the integrated standard models

Due to the anniversary of Blender as open source project special events are planned. In addition to a mixture of lectures with scientific content, case studies from studios and workshops for artists and developers, there is the from the standard Blender 3D – model named Suzanne Award.

This Animation Festival, where 90 minutes short films on the basis of the 3D renderer will be shown in the local cinema on Friday. Deadline for own projects is the 1st October.

ıllıllı Interesting that just one person always came to the fore, to maintain life and to further develop the project of Blender. For programming, finance and public relations. He gave his baby never out of his hand. To the benefit of all. Thanks, Ton.ıllıllı

Switch to Multimedia Linux Part 8 – Whoa, I think I’ll freeze

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Sep 152012

In March 1987 there was a black day for the ferry ride. The “Herald of Free Enterprise” left with an open gate to Belgian port of Zeebrugge and capsized a few minutes.

Although the emergency teams at the scene shortly thereafter, were able only a few passengers who had fallen into the icy water, to be saved.

Through experiments with volunteers in a cold water tank was hoped that further evidence. U.S. researchers at the Institute of Naval Medicine in Gosport / Hampshire found the answer: The sudden onset of cold shock when immersed in the water leads to reflexive hyperventilation – Rapid-onset obsessive breathing with appropriate water swallowing and ultimately the death by drowning.

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Avidemux 2.6 Video Editor major update with optimized hardware acceleration

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Sep 132012

After a long time for the swiss knife of video editing and conversion, the Avidemux video editor there was no special major update. Now the developers reprogrammed a large part of the source code or in the voice of the makers “Rewrite all Internals”.

Apart from the obligatory bug fixes there are outstanding features like the better performance through hardware acceleration and extensions in the audio area.

Video software speeds up

Video software in technical soaring

After some time standstill in the development the cross-platform video software Avidemux comes with a major release. In the recent years there were fixes, and small changes in the surface. Now some major improvements under the hood has been made.

Among others the following system changes were implemented:

Hardware acceleration currently using VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API) – This temporarily benefit only graphics cards from NVIDIA + S3 Graphics
OpenGL filters (only Qt4/mac & linux)This benefits 3D chips of all OpenGL compatible cards
Support for additional languages like Spidermonkey, TinyPy und QtScript
Support for multiple audio tracks (input / output).

Installation video editor Avidemux 2.6

Who only wants to test the new version of the video software, can install new 2.6 version parallel to the old 2.5x.

The installation works by GetDeb repository. First, the repository can be added easily using this .deb file.

After installing the deb – file easily type in the following commands in a terminal.

Update the database:

sudo apt-get update

And for the installation of the current version 2.6 of Avidemux:

sudo apt-get install avidemux2.6

With hardware acceleration never down by

For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OS X, there is the video editor Avidemux 2.6 hereto download.

No. 2.6 is alive

ıllıllı The phrase “Back on track” would be surely inappropriate for the popular audio editor – tool. Avidemux is never dropped due to lack of actuality from the focus of the users! The current version can be understood as more than just a sign of life. By OpenGL not only for NVIDIA Chipset Support it benefits all users with shorter conversion times. ıllıllı

Lightworks for Linux – release date of the alpha version mentioned

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Sep 102012

An old Chinese proverb says: A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Fortunately, the video software – Baby by EditShare, Lightworks in the Linux version, still made the first step into the scene, with a test build on the performance at the IBC 2012 .

After the long wait for an installable version of lightworks for Linux or even the release of the promised source code, there’s even a date for the alpha – version of the professional video editing software.

Upon request, an employee of the Technical Sales Support – team announced, that after the first demonstration of the linux test – build at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam they would bring out beta as soon as possible.

lightworks for Linux – Alpha Release for October mentioned

Then a voice from Lightworks Development Team in the forum tells the date of publishing: “We aim to have a Linux alpha build available on October 30th”.

Then a moderator to consider: Thanks for your enthusiasm, but don’t forget that this is only the Alpha release. And don’t forget what Alpha means: it means it’s not stable enough to be called Beta and is certainly not ready for doing projects on.

By all means take part in the testing but please don’t risk any of your work with it.

(In fact, it will probably appear to be pretty stable, but the very fact that it’s in Alpha testing means that unpredictable things could happen).

ıllıllı I would like that the linux version of lightworks works, when it gets released. ;) ıllıllı

Switch to Multimedia Linux – Part 7 – The price of freedom

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Sep 092012

Once upon a time, when the Microsoft marketing department was still not yet on Linux cuddlecourse. Everywhere in the country proclaimed the royally paid heralds of the reigning King William, first Ferengi from Microsoftesia, the exploits of the monarch. At the same time they condemned the disunity and lack of quorum of the opposition challenger.

This happened as long as the people wanted to hear it. Then he changed his tactics of struggle and confusion.

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First edition of The GIMP magazine expected in autumn – update, it’s out!

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Sep 062012

GIMP photo software users can look forward to new inspiration and information.

In fact, a team of enthusiasts are working on a regularly published magazine for the best image editing and photo Software for Linux.

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For the first time we heard about the project about a year ago, along with a call for contributions. Since then, a lot of work was done! For autumn this year the first issue of the magazine will be expected.

Erstes Cover von the Gimp Magazine

The free! Magazine is for casual users as well as for advanced users or professionals. You can read articels about GIMP or about other open source software the photo area.

The editors look forward to, in spite of the fact that it has started just three months ago with the compilation of the contributions, that the for the first edition planned 50 pages are already completed.

Gimp magazine for beginners and professionals

The first articles included some of the following infos:

Feature on an artist who uses only GIMP and UFRAW
HDR photography
A list of essential GIMP resources
Design gallery featuring contributions from the GIMP Community
A unique GIMP 2.8 review

The digital magazine uses a traditional layout and it will be available in PDF and EPUB format . Also an online version of the Gimp’s PDF magazine will be published on issuu.com.

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First edition of GIMP – Magazines published

The first edition of GIMP – magazine has been released as expected.

ıllıllı I really have to say it’s even become a bit more artistic, as expected. Its very beautiful and artistic photographs show in a very nice way what is possible with the photo software. ıllıllı

First cover of the gimp-magazine

The first edition of the magazine Gimp can be downloaded on gimpmagazine.org.

Have fun reading.

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Maybe the magazine is to appear in the Ubuntu Software Center. This is still not decided.

Reading material for the open source photo software

ıllıllı A new periodic magazine, which my favorite photo software is the topic? Bought! Oops! Is indeed free. The project makes a great impression and It will be surely a must-read for many multimedia Linux users. Good luck! ıllıllı

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digiKam Software Collection 2.9.0 and outlook for 3.0.0

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Sep 062012

Just the moon turned once around the Earth after the professional photo software digiKam 2.8.0 has been published, there is already the update to version 2.9.0. This is mainly with bug fixes, but also it is the last 2.x – version. The major update to 3.0.0 is coming up this year.

And in this next version of the photo workflow software collection some interesting Google Summer of Code 2012 projects will be integrated.

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Braking rockets launch! Multimedia-Linux-blog lands on Ubuntuusers planet

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Sep 042012

In the near future selected articles of multimedia-linux-blog will appear on planet.ubuntuusers.de. This as an opportunity i would like to get rid of a few words of welcome and introduction of my blog.

Equal first: As a newbie in the blogger area it did very well, to be welcomed so warmly with a lot of tips on the Ubuntu Users planet. Thanks for that!

Hello World on the Ubuntu Users Planet

What can we expect from my blog? In short, the articles aim to increase the performance of each inclined reader in creative open source area. So, more Klickibunti and color for the planet, something like new curtains and frills on the digital window ledge? Do not worry. From my side, there are certainly no instructions for installing the latest screen saver. Rather, I present programs for media processing in audio, video, photo etc. For the future, video tutorials and detailed descriptions are planned.

Rather Silly Walks, as pressed in conformity

Of course, I want to introduce myself as well. My name is Klaus. Computers were for me always (c64 – time) miracle machines that could do creative things. Creative in the sense that what graphics and music are concerned. Of course, many games inspired me that the existing hardware (via the specified properties even beyond) brought to their limits. What fascinated me then is still true today. Whether i painted a picture with GEOS or create a 3D – animation today with Blender, whether i composed with Octamed on Amiga or today with Renoise. The topic has not lost its charm. Linux, in my case i use, drum rolls, now the outing, the current Ubuntu comes with Unity, which gives me an opportunity to be creative.

I get to be creative, as i am using existing software to implement solutions. Sometimes I vacillate between aesthetics and efficiency, however, tend to decide for efficiency.

Why Apple is not my style? Wipe twice, then three times, then i guess you’re mobile phone, pad, computer isn’t in Kansas anymore. – With restrictions – - Apple knows what are intuitive interfaces, really Top (Please under no circumstances be understood as a call for flamewar Here I would just describe why I want to write here.!.) It is perfect if you like the predefined functions. If you want regular tread familiar paths in the same way. If the worst thing for you would be, “to run a changing system”- Then you can eat the sour apple.

However, this method would restrict me strongly. Ok, maybe I could live without one or two. If I had to be dictated to me what programs, file formats, interfaces, or Web formats can I use or need? What if I was with various restrictions deprive many creative ways? I want to be able to mess around “my” system. Or at least have the feeling that I’m doing this. This feeling gives me Linux.

Despite the types of free software these possibilities cost something. Time. Time to deal with open source. If you accept this fact, it can really be fun, as it is for me. But this issue should not now be spreaded. Please forgive me my scriptuale incontinence.

From me the warmest greetings to the bloggers of the bright center in the Ubuntu – galaxy and the ubuntuusers team.

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