The YaST configuration utility is light years ahead of other conventional system tools and makes the days of having to edit config text files a thing of the past. SuSE is an excellent operating system even at 8.2, it beats other Linux distributions in ease of use, functionality and stability. Pricing to be announced soon according to MainConcept. This application for other distributions is only in preview as I said and this application is a commercial product, meaning you have to pay for it and the source is not available. If SuSE continues to offer this application for free with its OS, this application might make buying SuSE just enough reason. It is very easy to use and works with most codecs and Digital Camcorders. This product is made in Germany and that may explain why SuSE got it before anyone else did. It also is good but for a person not used to working with it may have some trouble navigating it, and a iMovie user will have to retrain himself on how to use this Application. The interface on this application looks like it may be QT as well. MainActor comes free with SuSE Linux 8.2 and right now a preview is offered on their website for users of other distributions to try out. MainActor is a video editing tool similar to Apple iMovie, its not quite as intuitive as Jahshaka but for the job it needs to do it is excellent. This is one project i will be taking on to help them make it better. It is licensed under the GPL and is freely available for download. This program was founded and is maintained by a man in Jamaica. The tool layout is quite good and something I would consider on par with most commercial products, it can be understood by a novice like me and and is quite intuitive. It features a Desktop that you can use to put all your clips and materials on and use the drag-drop-fuctionality, it also includes a painting program. The interface on Jahshaka reminds me of Shake. It is written in the excellent QT crossplatform development environment so it has a very attractive interface and it it not GNOME like at all. With this you can add music, add special effects if you want to put in subtitles and credits and subliminal messages this is the program for you. It is still in its alpha stages and is nowhere near the finished line, but, my experience with it is that its a pretty solid project even in Alpha. It is comparable to Apples Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects and is located here. Jahshaka is a real time editing and effects program. This review is done from the perspective of a home desktop user. I am not however into professional animation, film production or any other type of multimedia authoring so I cannot speak on how these tools will work or how they compare to the tools that professionals use. I use these tools now and I find them to be excellent for what I do. Today with Jahshaka and Main Actor the things that could only be done on a Mac or a Wintel machine can now be done on a Lintel machine as well. There were no good video editors for Linux in the past. In the past in order to make good home movies one needed either a Mac or a Windows PC.
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