by Qyot27 » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:27 am
Sadly, most video editing programs on Linux aren't really close to Premiere (and those that are in that range are pretty alien to what general prosumer NLE users expect)? I'm not exactly holding my breath waiting, either.
Other options would be OpenShot, kdenlive, Lumiera (a rewrite of CinelerraCV that looks a lot friendlier; may still be in an unstable state)?
It's difficult to say exactly what you should use, re: file formats, since that can change a lot based on what versions of libavcodec/libavformat/etc. the above programs are compiled against, or if the distro in question restricts parts of that code (requiring extra packages to get that functionality back: at the very least, Debian and Ubuntu do this, not sure if any others do)? They should be like, 99.99999999% guaranteed to support HuffYUV (and ffvhuff, aka the YV12 version of HuffYUV) and FFV1. Those are your safest bets, for both import and export.
If you know that you're using new versions of the libraries, then that can expand to also include Lagarith and Ut Video (although at present, encoding either of those has to be done through Wine)? However, this means really new versions: Lagarith was added in January 2011 and only supported YV12 until November-December, when it finally gained RGB24 decoding (RGBA and YUY2 aren't supported, although there are some RGBA-centric commits in there)? Ut Video was added in October 2011, and to my knowledge, supports all of the relevant colorspaces.