We're now editing these films with Cinelerra.
If you're specialized in that software, and settled in our headquarter city (Toulouse) we might appreciate your help in taming it! Please contact us.
We are using it on a G5 (big-endian processor). Camille ported the Cinelerra's graphical toolkit for big-endian processors in 2004. At this time DV files was not handled by Cinelerra... But still not today! :-( We feel very lonely thinking we are maybe the only ones using Cinelerra on this kind of computer, so experiencing platform specific bugs. The blocking one is raw DV file support, it is very slow to render frames (one frame per second), and generates artifacts*. It seems that all applications using libdv are slow on this computer, even binaries provided by the library such as playdv. On the other hand applications using libavcodec have fast rendering, so we are interested in any patch making Cinelerra using libavcodec to render DV frames. Even if it is developped on x86, we should be able to port it.
We are currently working around by converting to MPEG, then render the final result from DV files on an x86 computer. It is not the most comfortable way to do, we would be very relieved if this could be fixed.
* We fixed it but it is still slow, if you are using a big-endian based computer you can give it a try or take inspiration form our patch facing this kind of problem: cinelerra_fildedv_yuv2rgb_.diff.
