I
often use my desktop computer to edit family videos. I'm far from
being en expert or even en advanced amateur, my needs usually are
limited to cutting out bed scenes, stitching the good ones with some
effect and, sometimes, add head titles and a little of music. I
usually
use
OpenShot for video editing and
AviDemux in case my source video needed some simple processing before
editing. These tools are more than enough for my limited needs but,
while browsing around into the Internet, I read about a tool that
appeared very promising to me:
Natron,
I so decided to install it and give it a try.
What
Natron is
Natron
is a compositing software. Its main function is mixing together
different sources: video, pictures and text with addition of various
filters and effects. Let's also point out what Natron is not: Natron
isn't an editing software. Natron is not suited in cutting and
stitching videos together even though, reading community forums, I
understand it isn't impossible using it that way.
Natron
user interface
Natron
is a “
node based”
compositing
software, the process applied to source video is graphically
described by a graph where every node represent an elaboration step
like, for example, an effect or a filter. May be it’s because I’m
very “
graph-minded” because of my work, but I felt at home
with Natron suer interface from the very beginning. I started by
trying to correct a very dark and noisy night scene:
It
has been some time
since my latest “test-drive” of a linux distribution on the
EEEPC. I must be honest about it: the EEEPC is getting everyday older
and I’m slowly loosing interest in improoving its use. By the way
afrer reading of the newly
released Linux Mint
version, powered by Cinnamon
3.0, I’ve been tempted to write a live disk on my USB stick and try
how it performs on my old netbook.
