Audio

As the Gentle and Loyal Reader knows, I’m very interested in audio editors on Linux. Now, it’s clear that Fillmore isn’t exactly in Ardour‘s space, it’s equally true that not everyone needs the same feature set.

Once you have something like Ardour setup and know how to use it, it’s really not a problem to use it for either “real” projects or simple work – but if you aren’t familiar with or don’t have the time and inclination to learn a full-featured video editing environment, you certainly want something simpler.

Video

This leads me to Lombard, because I’ve long been looking for a very simple and easy-to-use video editor for Linux. Where I enjoy audio production and am quite comfortable with various DAWs, I am just a hack when it comes to editing videos.

This is the application domain where I want something simpler.

I would like to do some basic video editing, but usually my friend does it instead with Adobe Premier. I’m sure he’ll remain better at it than I will, but I’d like to at least be able to whip out my laptop and show a “scratch” version of a promo video or commerical or whatever.

Yorba

Both Fillmore and Lombard come from Yorba, the non-profit software group behind Shotwell with a goal to make it as “easy to work with media using Linux as on a Mac or Windows computer”.

It seems like Yorba is focused on using Vala to bring a suite of media apps to GNOME. It seems to me that Vala has taken some FUD for being underused, so it’s interesting to see an organized effort adopt it and produce some nice looking apps.

Commentary

It would be remiss of me not to mention that – as usual – I enjoyed the comments as much as the article, especially when one of the most vocal Mono ap0logists on the net shows up to explain no-one is really out there lobbying for Mono. Heh.