Comments on: Lightweight editors: One audio, one video

By: Adam Sampson

Adam Sampson — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:20:23 +0000

Yep, mhwaveedit is great — I switched to it from Audacity a while ago. The two big selling points for me is that it works properly with JACK, and it handles big files gracefully.

For video editing I normally use gopdit, which is one of those “does one thing well” tools (topping-and-tailing MPEG video).

By: KeithB

KeithB — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:52:15 +0000

@Adrian

A well known company markets its computers and software as ‘industry standard’ in the music production/audio area with great success. Students learn on that software, and audio hardware companies provide controllers, interfaces &c that are geared to the requirements and workflow…

Leading edge software (for the people who DON’T want to be ‘industry standard’) IS developed on FOSS platforms, see supercollider, pure data, ChucK and fluxus. Look at the puredyne linux distribution for a simple way of getting all this stuff pre-configured.

Audio support on linux is also a little less straight forward (OSS, ALSA, Pulseaudio, Jack and so on) which tends to put people off.

This little audio editor is interesting because its very simple. Linux audio in my opinion sometimes suffers from the nuclear sledgehammer based nutcracker problem.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:50:31 +0000

I always found it weird that Linux was lacking so much in the video/audio editing field compared to OS X and Windows.
It’s stable, fast and secure. What more do you need when doing large scale editing?

And don’t tell me a film editor isn’t technologically savvy enough to step away from OS X/Windows