"We're getting close to the last stops on our tour of NLEs for
Linux. This week I've focused my attention on two editors, both of
which surprised me in many ways.
"OpenMovieEditor
"Its Web site states that OpenMovieEditor has been "... designed
for basic movie making capabilities... [and] to be powerful enough
for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use". In fact I found
OpenMovieEditor to be a surprisingly capable NLE, modest in its
stated goals yet possessing some features not commonly found in
Linux NLEs.
"OpenMovieEditor (Figure 1) leverages the capabilities of a
variety of open-source projects, including libquicktime, FFmpeg,
Inkscape, and the frei0r fx plugins popular with other A/V editors
for Linux. However, the program has some of its own special
attractions, such as support for the JACK audio server and
transport control, a GUI for automation curves, and node-based
compositing. This last feature is indeed unusual - most other NLEs
employ layer compositing - and it is not amiss to plunder Wikipedia
for this definition :
"Node-based compositing represents an entire composite as a tree
graph, linking media objects and effects in a procedural map,
intuitively laying out the progression from source input to final
output, and is in fact the way all compositing applications
internally handle composites... Layer-based compositing represents
each media object in a composite as a separate layer within a
timeline, each with its own time bounds, effects, and
keyframes"
