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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Fedora 25 Alpha and processing.

About processing, you can find more from processing website.
Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. There are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning and prototyping. 
Is simple to use. You can use with Java also with python and android mode.
Come with many examples and tutorials.
Today I tested with Fedora 25 alpha.
I download the 64bits tgz file. I extract the archive into my home user.
I used the binary file to run it and I install some modes from menu Tools and them Modes tab.
I run one simple code to see if is running without errors.
And working well, see the result:

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Linux application Flowblade version 1.8 .

This video editor is a multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux released under GPL 3 license.
I try to use also with Fedora Linux distro ( Fedora 25 alpha) but not work for me.
I don't see in Fedora anything like python-gi-cairo.
Also, I put this issue under GitHub project, maybe will be fixed.

According to the official webpage, the software comes with:

Features

Editing:

    3 move tools
    3 trim tools
    4 methods to insert/ overwrite/append clips on the timeline
    Drag'n'Drop clips on the timeline
    Clip and compositor parenting with other clips
    Max. 9 combined video and audio tracks available

Image compositing:

    6 compositors. Mix, zoom, move and rotate source video with keyframed animation tools
    19 blends. Stardand image blend modes like Add, Hardlight and Overlay are available
    40+ pattern wipes.

Image and audio filtering:

    50+ image filters: color correction, image effects, distorts, alpha manipulation, blur, edge detection, motion effects, freeze frame, etc.
    30+ audio filters: keyframed volume mixing, echo, reverb, distort, etc.

Supported editable media types:

    Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs
    JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF graphics file types
    SVG vector graphics
    Numbered frame sequences

Output encoding:

    Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs
    User can define rendering by setting FFMpeg args individually

Sunday, September 18, 2016

News about Blender second release candidate and other projects.

The Chairman Blender Foundation and producer Blender Institute, Mr. Ton Roosendaal come with this news about second release candidate and other projects:
Hi everyone,

Here are notes from today's 14 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net 
#blendercoders.

1) Blender 2.78 RC2

- Second release candidate is out! 
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.78/

- Release logs are also taking shape:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.78
https://www.blender.org/features/2-78/

Based on tracker reporting and further testing we either do a RC3 or 
the actual release this week. Sergey Sharybin and Bastien Montagne are
 monitoring it closely.

2) Other projects and 2.8

- Currently Blender for OSX links to an Apple system library for 
quicktime (qtkit).
This has been deprecated for long, and will be removed from 
XCode 10.12.
We have to decide if we want to drop this, and make Blender for 
OS X use ffmpg for 
all codecs.

- Julian Eisel uploaded custom manipulators patch for review 
https://developer.blender.org/D2232
Code docs
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=User:Julianeisel/Custom_Manipulators

- Mike Erwin is in Amsterdam, with Dalai Felinto and others 
he will do design sessions
on the 2.8 viewport. Expect interesting logs and docs!

Thanks,

-Ton-