>> GENERAL INFORMATION

Author:		epitaph
Name:		Rogue Baguette (Rogue Bagel II)
Length:		04:33
Date:		July 13, 2009

>> TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Video Codec:	x264
Audio Codec:	FAAC
Resolution:	1024x680
Framerate:	45fps

>> MUSIC USED

1. Charlie Clouser - Convoy
2. The Legion of Doom - Lolita's Medicine
3. The Future Sound of London - We Have Explosives (7edit Remix)
4. Celldweller - Symbiont (Instrumental)

>> FEATURING

- epitaph
- cuirass
- thekov

>> PROGRAMS

- GIMP 2.6
- CPMA 1.47
- Kdenlive 0.7.5
- Avidemux
- Mplayer

>> IMPORTANT NOTES

This movie is a pseduo-sequel to my much better movie known as "Rogue Bagel".
As a joke we started saying that I should make a sequel named "Rogue Baguette".
I played with the idea a bit at first and then decided I would do it -- entirely
on Linux using only open source and free tools. This made the whole process a
lot more difficult than I had anticipated mostly due to the fact that there are
very few non-linear video editors for Linux. Those that are available are often
cryptic (Cinellera), unfinished (Kdenlive), or insanely painful to use (Blender
sequence editor). I decided on Kdenlive since it seemed to resemble the editing
environments of Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas to a degree.

Capturing media was the first challenge. It was simple enough to dump screenshots
and record audio -- separately. The game clients that support making video files
with sound all seemed to generate sound with cracking on Linux. I was capturing
audio manually but I ended up giving up when I realized another large problem:
no q3mme. So I used defrag to get freecams. All in all it wasn't horrible. Using
Mplayer to compile the screenshots was great once I wrote a simple bash script
to automate the process and take care of organization.

Editing was by far the worst part of the experience. Kdenlive is a good
non-linear video editor but it is simply not complete. It's version of 0.7.5
speaks volumes about where it is in its development cycle. It has a lot of key
capabilities but was very unstable (crashes, lost project data). It also had a
lot of problems keeping audio and video in sync. I would save a project file,
open it later and things would have somehow become out of sync. Some clips
would just seem to glitch out or disappear once they were previewed in the
preview monitor. I could go on and on about Kdenlive annoying the piss out of
me at times but it isn't necessary.

I am just glad that Kdenlive exists and is being worked on. By the time it
reaches 1.0.0 I'm sure it will be a great non-linear video editor. Until Lumiera
even shows signs of any development Kdenlive is the premiere editor for Linux.
Thanks to the Kdenlive team!

Most of all I am glad this project is done. It looks like a 5th grader put it
together and is dwarfed in quality by my previous movie (Rogue Bagel) but
the quality of the content was pretty low too so I don't feel too bad.

Enjoy the movie.

P.S. Stick with a Mac if you're looking to do serious video editing!
