Having decided that I wanted to make a split-screen video showing a bit from Flight of the Conchords alongside the corresponding Footloose clips that inspired it, I then spent over an hour downloading the clips off YouTube, correcting their aspect ratios, trying to get the new videos to load in Cinelerra, trying to figure out how to do a split screen in Cinelerra, and ultimately learning that Cinelerra is — dare I say — a useless pile of crap (at least on this Ubuntu install), I decided to just let you use your imagination instead. No capable video editor means I won’t be fancily editing any videos.
Watch Kevin Bacon do his thing [YouTube], then watch Bret keep up admirably [YouTube].
This whole scenario brings two things to my mind:
1) YouTube is frickin’ fantastic. The fact that I can decide I want to look at the bit from Footloose where Kevin Bacon dances away his frustrations and INSTANTLY SEE IT rocks my socks off.
and
2) Why must open source software still suck so much ass so much of the time?
