Kim:
It was called Linux right from the beginning - Linux version 0.01, released mid September 1991.
UNIX was an older more powerful OS mainly used in mainframe networking by larger companies. UNIX was never free, and actually quite expensive.
Look here for a time line chart of UNIX.
http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#08
You will see that the timeline starts in 1970. All current unix-like OSes when asked for the time/date will return the number of second from Jan 1, 1970.
A great many of the UNIX OSes in the chart are/were free most notably "BSD". Look whe Apple has don with Mac OS X (aka "Tiger") it is based on (and really still is) BSD UNIX. They were able to use BSD UNIX with out paying anyone a dime. BSD is licensed such that it can be used for any purpose, even re-sold comecially for free. Next look at Sun's "Solaris 10". This siclearly ATT UNIX System V derived and is now completely free and Open Sourced. There have been free UNIXes from 1970 to present. Yes some version were also sold at high prices too.
THis continues today. Look at Apple. You can buy "tiger" or you can get "darwin" for free. Both from Apple.
Back to Video Editing on Linux. .....
Cinlerra is a full up professional editing system. HOWEVER. It is NOT a turn-key end-user product.
You can buy such pre-configured systes based on Cinlerra but they are expensiv. You can also get the software and install it on your own hardware but the software you get off the web is a moving target. Deelopers are ostantly (several times a day) making changes to it. YOU will have to do your own quality control. and do your own testing before moving downloaded software onto a production system. So if you want touse Cinlerra you need to install both a "stable" system and an experimental system and be wiling
The other one is "kino". This is a _much_ simler video eding system. It is more like those systems that sell for $100 and run on PCs. Basically there is just one video time line and you drop clips onto it and maybe add transitions. iKino is more like apple's "iMovie" while Cinlerra is more like Apple's "Final Cut Pro".
If all you want is the to cut shots together Kino wil do it. But I have this vision of a short movie where a little girl goes into a tourist-style "submarine" and loks out the window does some daydreamming and then imagines herself swimming outside like a mermaid with no equipment interacting directly with the marine environment. we the viewers whoud see her outside the sub and see what she sees And then she stops daydreamming and climmbs out of the sub. This movie requires compositing animation with many video shots, so I'd need to sync and edit animation and several video track and multi-track audio. Kino can't do this. you want the other one.
wil
