ParanoidFactoid

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

Davinci Resolve does not run on Wayland!

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

Has never worked properly on Wayland.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

Good luck convincing Blackmagic of that.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

I use Resolve in production. It’s rock solid.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Yeah. On Win and Mac, it imports anything. But on Linux, the paid Studio version will import x264/x265 with mp3 or PCM (wav) audio. Not AAC. People don’t like that. Lol

But you’d be insane to edit with these interframe formats. And most commercial editors would auto-convert ingested x264/265 to an intraframe format like Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHR anyway. They’re essentially containers for jpeg or png frames instead of compressing collections of frames. Much easier to scrub the timeline that way, though the files are huge.

On Linux, Resolve (both free and Studio) imports DNxHR with PCM audio and edits that like butter. ffmpeg easily converts prosumer camera x265/aac output to DNxHR. Or Shuttle encoder, if you want a GUI. And most pro cameras output ProRes, ProRes RAW, or DNxHR directly.

Also, Resolve on Linux will ingest all Blackmagic RAW file formats, if you have a Blackmagic camera. And the little BMPCC 4k is still a steal at $1200 or so. As long as you light your subject properly, that little camera shoots gorgeous photography.

Resolve is a pro tool. But a project takes time to set up. For little things, I’d go with Blender’s VSE, which is full featured but has a terrible interface, or kdenlive, which is a Windows Movemaker like toy, but has a normal interface you’d expect from an NLE.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

Fusion is what I hate most! Lol I come from Ae and the Adobe suite before I switched. And while I’m comfortable with node based systems, Fusion just isn’t all that compared to all the plug-ins for Ae. Or Blender, which is also fantastic for motion graphics. Fusion does a great job animating titles though.

Resolve requires a whole production pipeline to use it properly. From ingest, organization, cutting, and post for audii, color, and graphics. It’s best suited to broadcast or features. Or, advertising.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

It’s a toy.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Ouch, that does hurt. Sorry, dude!

You could use gpu passthrough with iommu and qemu to a virtual system and run Win. A real PITA. I know.

I’d bitch about that on the blackmagic Resolve forum. That’s a serious hit to your workflow. Call out Dwaine, he works there and does Linux support. Nice guy.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I mean, I dunno about you but for me this is money. I make money with these tools. I prefer Linux for privacy reasons, but I’m not religious about it when it comes to money. We all gotta eat.

The Blackmagic folks might help. Especially if you paid for Studio. I don’t work there and can’t make promises, but I’d definitely make a stink about that. At least get a formal statement from them on Sony support in Linux.

My in-house is an old GH5s w/ a Shogun. But if the client pays, I prefer to rent an URSA mini. So I haven’t hit this.

Really wish I could help more.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

I do this for a living. Most people shooting family vids or youtube vlogs/video essays would find Kdenlive perfectly well suited to their needs. It does simple transforms, titling, adjustments, etc. And it looks like a normal NLE. When you hit a wall with it, the move to a commercial program will be easy.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

Go with an LTS version. Fedora is upgrades twice a year. Mint is just Ubuntu. I’d choose 22 04 Mint over Fedora for this reason. But Debian Stable is old yet tried and true. Plain Debian works.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

The file manager in CDE worked. And it’s all open source now. What I’d give for CDE and Motif to come back! Lol

That old shit all worked better.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2022997

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/994

I ran into each of these personally.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

Here’s what I mean:

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/994

bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2022997

Oh, and…

zdnet.com/…/how-to-rename-multiple-files-in-windo…

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

I don’t want to debate win here, that’s off topic, but batch renaming is something Explorer does.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

That view bug has been sitting around since 2009, from what I can gather. But a file manager giving false filesystem state to a user is a showstopper. It violates the main purpose of the program. And risks data loss. Users may make errors based on false information.

Batch renaming I use regularly by ingesting media from cameras, though typically at the command line.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

Select a group of folders and try it yourself!

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

22.04 is not outdated.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

You’ll have to compile a daily from github if you want the proposed fix.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

I’m not a fan of either Gnome or KDE.

To me, the big mistake both make is in the presumption the UI and utilities shipped with those platforms are why people use it. But no. Nobody uses MacOS because of its nifty calculator or the Finder. It’s the overall toolkit integration with apps. Not even look and feel. But consistency in use.

Neither KDE nor Gnome offer that.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago

I don’t presume to know why others choose to use anything. But MacOS is highly consistent across apps. Dialog boxes, text input forms, file browsing, hot keys, all the same across applications.

ParanoidFactoid, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I’m not telling devs what they can do. Merely pointing out this is why the projects fail.