Samhain13

this is one of the reasons why designers should not use linux - lack of good tools.

Eh?

Tools are only as good as the people who use them. In other forums, there's so much debate about tool vs tool like GIMP vs Photoshop. But what good is either if the person using it lacks the talent? Conversely, a person who has talent, whether acquired or developed, can manifest his talent regardless of what tool he uses. Besides, Flash 8 is still a good application-- unless of course one heavily relies on pre-built functionality and does not care to learn ActionScript for customising functionality-- and it runs fine in Linux, through Wine.

i hope they come up with an open source version soon.

I hope so too. But I think the real problem here is that Flash itself is not open source so interested developers may find themselves faced with legal issues, in terms of patents and what-have-you's. It would be wonderful though if Adobe were to make Flash open source to allow for broader community development, the way Netscape did with its browser and its rendering engine. But then, that's entirely up to Adobe and their business plans.

The only open source editor that I came across to is the F4L I mentioned earlier. I did try it but at the time, it doesn't do very well; and from what I read, development seemed to have come to a long pause. I never looked at it again for the simple reason that I can run my Flash 8 Pro just fine under Wine. I have no idea is the later versions are already supported though.

There are, of course, open source PLAYERS that I believe are widely available. Gnash is the first thing that comes to mind. But then, they are players and not editors.

Then you'll really need Flash.

There's GyachI (Gyache Improved). You can look for it in the UbuntuForums, it has it's own thread there since one of the contributors uses Ubuntu (and is Pinoy too).

I've been using it since 7.04 but for some reason, the webcam utility in 7.10 version doesn't work for me.

But if you're running KDE, there's always Kopete. It also runs in Gnome but I find it rather slow in this environment.

I came across a certain F4L (Flash for Linux) project in the past. But I haven't kept track of it.

i have a need for a flash editor w/o resorting to installing adobe.

That's going to be a problem. Flash is, of course, an Adobe product so there's really no going around them.

But if you'd like to learn something new, why not try experimenting with SVG and Javascript for making animated presentations for the web? It seems pretty cool, although at this stage, browser support is very poor.

If you're building media players, I think iTheora is worth a look. I've been playing around with it on-and-off. It uses the Cortado Java Applet to stream Theora/Vorbis files. I have samples in my site, if you care to have a look. You can find them here:

http://www.abcruz.com/index.php?args=Devel...loits_In_Media/

i believe thats for players..i need something along the lines of blender3d and flash..yung mga creators.. ty

Blender is readily available, just install it from the repos.

Flash, I think still has no Linux alternative but if you're still comfortable using version 8 Pro, it runs fine in Wine.

Video editing, I would personally recommend Cinelerra. I have just in fact, over the weekend, finished a project using it. It's not very hard to use, just imagine using a multi-track Windows Movie Maker. I'm even tempted to compare it to Premiere but then I have not used the latter in a very long time. Cinelerra can also be used as a music editor, just delete the video track and choose to render audio only. It supports lots of formats. The version I'm using can be found here: http://cvs.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php

If you're into MIDI, Rosegarden is the best! But you'll have to get either the lowlatency or real-time kernel to make it work properly. You'll also need to have TiMiDiTy++ installed. Here's a great guide: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~djm/ubuntu/feisty/#timidity, then install Rosegarden from the repos.

If you're into transcoding, you should also have the Medibuntu repos enabled because they have a better ffmpeg version (or so I'm told). I would also recommend installing ffmpeg2theora and mencoder. And that's where you get additional, non-free codecs. You might also want to visit this thread in the UbuntuForums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=567016

For imaging software, there's really a lot to choose from. I prefer combining The GIMP with Inkscape and ImageMagick. I think you'll find a nice multi-image resize-and-make-thumbnail script that I wrote (hehehe) for ImageMagick somewhere in the back pages of this thread. You can also try Krita if you're more comfortable working on a Photoshop-like interface-- but I'm really not a fan.

Ayun.

i believe thats for players..i need something along the lines of blender3d and flash..yung mga creators.. ty

Blender is readily available, just install it from the repos.

Flash, I think still has no Linux alternative but if you're still comfortable using version 8 Pro, it runs fine in Wine.

Video editing, I would personally recommend Cinelerra. I have just in fact, over the weekend, finished a project using it. It's not very hard to use, just imagine using a multi-track Windows Movie Maker. I'm even tempted to compare it to Premiere but then I have not used the latter in a very long time. Cinelerra can also be used as a music editor, just delete the video track and choose to render audio only. It supports lots of formats. The version I'm using can be found here: http://cvs.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php

If you're into MIDI, Rosegarden is the best! But you'll have to get either the lowlatency or real-time kernel to make it work properly. You'll also need to have TiMiDiTy++ installed. Here's a great guide: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~djm/ubuntu/feisty/#timidity, then install Rosegarden from the repos.

If you're into transcoding, you should also have the Medibuntu repos enabled because they have a better ffmpeg version (or so I'm told). I would also recommend installing ffmpeg2theora and mencoder. And that's where you get additional, non-free codecs. You might also want to visit this thread in the UbuntuForums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=567016

For imaging software, there's really a lot to choose from. I prefer combining The GIMP with Inkscape and ImageMagick. I think you'll find a nice multi-image resize-and-make-thumbnail script that I wrote (hehehe) for ImageMagick somewhere in the back pages of this thread. You can also try Krita if you're more comfortable working on a Photoshop-like interface-- but I'm really not a fan.

Ayun.

yes !!! may sumangayon din sa akin na okey yung gutsy gibbon !!!! he he he !!!!

Ako, sasangayon din! Hehehehe! Medyo hindi lang naglalagi dito sa MTC kaya ngayon ko lang nakita ito. :thumbsupsmiley:

re: Photoshop and Gimp, I have to agree with Ronin. Gimp's still a way off-- but it's highly usable for web graphics (i.e. jpg, gif at png). So far hindi ko pa naman siya kinailangan for print, at least not seriously.

Anyway, you can use combinations of applications to do complex work. Tulad kunwari Inkscape+Gimp. Sa Inkscape ka mag-layout, sa Gimp mo i-process yung raster images, tapos bahala ka na kung saan mo i-finalise yung artwork.

As to Flash. I also agree with Ronin. I run my Flash through wine and it works alright.

when we checked the network tools it listed three "connections":

1. loopback interface

2. eth0

3. eth0:avahi

 

none of them work.

we tried the pppoeconf command and a host of other things, still no internet.

Help!!

In my case, it's eth0 that's being used. But one thing I always forgot was to turn the thing off before I start with pppoeconf. Try "sudo poff dsl-provider" first before running pppoeconf. If it gets you to where you're supposed to enter your user details then it should be ok. Although there are times that it's not the configuration that's problem but the name servers your DSL provider connects you to.

...err, but then again, I may be just as new to this as the next guy.

Takot ako. Pumunta ako sa "known issues" tapos nakita ko na papalitan daw niya sa xorg yung nvidia-- hindi ko na tinuloy basahin.

*Hello po, this is a re-post from another forum. I'm just putting it here since I think it's a related subject. I'm also the original author of this post...*

Hi! Sorry for double posting, I'm just excited about a thing I've learned today. Sorry kung medyo novice na novice ang dating at talagang naaliw lang ako.

I received a CD from a client for whom I am making an online store. The CD contained 169 images of products that I had to resize from 1000+ pixels in width to somewhere around 300px. Additionally, I had to make a thumbnail for each of them.

Of course, coming from a Photoshop background and remembering quite well my last post, the first thing that came to mind was "how do I make the GIMP do repetitive stuff like how Photoshop does it with its Actions utility?" After an hour of searching and attempting to learn Script-fu, I was led to the idea that perhaps The GIMP isn't what I needed to accomplish my present task.

Right, so what I really needed was "Mogrify", a command line tool that comes with ImageMagick. And here are the simple steps, which I hope will be useful for others, that allowed me to resize 169 images, do some basic brightness/contrast operations, and make thumbnails for each in less than 10 minutes:

(Again, install ImageMagick if you don't have it yet.)

1. Make a directory for image files that need conversion. Copy-paste the files to that directory.

2. Open a terminal and cd to that directory.

3. Run "mogrify -resample 72 -resize 300 -sigmoidal-contrast 5x50 *", this will take several minutes depending on the number and size of the files to be processed. It also begs to mention -resample is the DPI value and -resize is the width in PIXELS. The thing will preserve the original image's proportions.

4. Run "mkdir thumbnails" then "cp * thumbnails/".

5. cd to the thumbnails folder and run "mogrify -resize 100 *", which resizes the copied files to 100px wide.

*Added here, also by me:*

You can also use this script. Copy and paste to a text editor and save as mogrify-make-gallery.sh in your bin:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This script is for resizing images found in a given directory

# Run the script in the directory of your target images: mogrify-make-gallery.sh

echo

echo -----------------------------------------------------------

echo Image Gallery Modifier v 1.0 by Arielle B Cruz

echo Written for ZsaZsaZsu-Bijoux.com

echo This script relies on ImageMagick and Mogrify.

echo -----------------------------------------------------------

echo Resizing original images to 300px wide,

echo this may take some time. Please wait.

mogrify -resample 72 -resize 300 -sigmoidal-contrast 5x50 *

echo Applying noise-reducing enhancement.

mogrify -enhance *

echo Creating thumbnails sub-folder.

mkdir thumbnails

echo Creating thumbnails, 100px wide each.

cp * thumbnails/

cd thumbnails

mogrify -resize 100 *

echo Applying noise-reducing enhancement.

mogrify -enhance *

echo Done. Mabuhay\!

echo

#end of mogrify-make-gallery.sh

did you boot from the live cd and mount your partition and edit from there?

ganun kasi ginagawa ko pag meron ako nasira config and ayaw mag boot ng maayos ang ubuntu.

Yan ang hindi ko naisip!

Well, I guess that's what I get for panicking.

liquidtension: yeah, it's actually a good OS. It's not as "plug-and-play" as Windows is, at least not if you use your PC aside from the regular office work. Media is really difficult to configure at first. But when you get all your stuff together, it really does wonders.

Can someone post the ideal Feisty Fawn repository listing here - including the non-free ones?

You can enable multiverse and other repositories from Synaptic to get more applications.

Then there's also Medibuntu, where you can get some non-free stuff like codecs and Skype (if you need it)-- I don't remember the address exactly but you can Google for "Medibuntu".

Damn. I hope they make it even more user-friendly next release and won't have to rely on terminal commands anymore.

 

I also ran into trouble recently with my display setting. I messed up the configuration in /etc/x11/xorg.conf...

I actually ran into a similar situation when I first installed Edgy a few months ago. The only solution that I was able to come up with was to reinstall (toink!). And I honestly don't know how to remedy it should I run into that situation again so I just shun away from editing xorg.

I haven't experienced that "things turning green" problem though. When I messed up my xorg, I was trying to get Beryl to work and I must have typed the wrong stuff in the wrong places. I wasn't able to overwrite the old xorg with the backup.

Using the terminal though, I think, is something that we really cannot escape. Hehehe! Well, we'll get used to it.

Hummm... what language did you choose when you installed it?

^Blender 3D. http://www.blender.org

Nasubukan ko na, madali lang naman matutunan. And it's light weight. I don't work much in animation though so I can't say how it compares to other software. But here's the thing, I wasn't able to try the others that you mention because I lacked the system requirements. I was able to use Blender though.

There are sample renders in YouTube. Just search for "Blender 3D". The comments I came across found it to be comparable to Maya-- but I really wouldn't know.

Ken: Thanks talaga sa link, I was able to install and run Cinelerra. I think I can work with this!

Anyway, share ko lang din... I wasn't able to have the program run at first because apparently, there are complied packages that don't work or don't work well with my system. I was able to download a package that works in my Ubuntu Feisty though and here is the source: "http://giss.tv/~vale/ubuntuopengl/ ./" -- I tried two others that didn't work but this one did.

Ayun! Very happy! Salamat ulit sa link.

Kenj: I'm using Ubuntu now, and so far it's the only distribution I've tried. Ok naman if you're newly transitioning from Windows to Linux. Meron nga lang siyang dalawang desktop environments (actually hindi lang dalawa pero popular ito): yung Gnome (stock na Ubuntu) at yung KDE (Kubuntu). I've tried both but now I'm leaning towards Gnome, although KDE looks very familiar if you're used to WinXP in my opinion. Madami din tools yung KDE to help you with your hardware-- in my experience, mas madaling mag-install ng printer sa KDE kaysa sa Gnome (yung Brother kasi ang gamit ko at medyo mabusisi siya). Anyway, masayang adventure yan! Hehehehe!

^Uy! Tempting. Will do some reading and asking around on how to install that in Ubuntu. Medyo hindi pa ako marunong mag compile from source. But thanks!

Hey, thanks for the replies on my video editing question. I've tried Kino but I think it only works for DV Cam stuff, which I don't have. Will do a bit more research on this-- especially on the GIMP-related matters, thanks. Cheers!

Hello po. Pa-advice naman ako kung anong meron video editing software na puwede kong patakbuhin sa Ubuntu. The files I need to edit are mpeg (kung may wmv support din, mas ok). Kahit yung kasing simple lang ng Windows Movie Maker. Thanks.

Firefox pa rin!

Saan kayo naglalaro? At tuwing kailan? Paki-PM naman ako, thanks.

Oi! May nagha-Hattrick ba sa inyo? Bisita naman kayo sa page ng team ko:

http://abcruz.com/SOL

^^^ Actually, I can't even use the water effects. And I can't even use the animated Sky Dome. But I'm ok with it, the desktop cube works fine and more of the window effects. Hehehehe!