Best distro for video editing

[Wolfmight]

Ok, I know Cinelerra is one of the best video editors for Linux, but what distro should I use it on?

I'm looking for one that can run Cinelerra (rpm installer I think), and I want to have plenty of free resources available. I hear Gnome is faster, whilst KDE is prettier. I like my visuals, so probably KDE.
Here's my system specs:

Asus motherboard with Nforce2 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
Athlon XP 1.8ghz
1gb DDR Ram
300GB Hardrive
128MB ATI Radeon 9500Pro
19" Flatpanel Display


I normally use premiere, but I wanted to try video editing on linux for a chance. Premiere tends to crash when I paste 10+ filters onto video segments at once. It's the latest version too. 1.5Pro.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Linspire seems cool, but does it include too much?

I remember using RedHat Linux awhile back and it didn't run anything. I tried installing Linux versions of software and they all failed.

[Wolfmight]

I'm going to try Suse Pro 9.3.
Any good?

[4play]

I'm going to try Suse Pro 9.3.
Any good?

not my favourite version of suse. im waiting for opensuse 10.0 to come out.

then again i dont think it will really matter what distro you use since they are all pretty similar.

might be worth looking into a bit of clustering if you have any others pcs hooked up to a network.

[Wolfmight]

finished installing suse 9.3 pro and it's not too bad. Seems to already have loads of software bundled with it. I could have even added 250+ more packages, but not right now. :-/ mighta been "TOoO" much with all of it installed. All I need are the media apps.. Now then, Codecs Codecs codecs... :-)

[4play]

use susewatcher and install the codec packs that are avialable.

otherwise install http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=124 + all the dependencies at the bottom of the page. then you will need to install http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=325.

you can install them by

1)downloading them to home
2) open up a konsole (bash)
3) typing su and entering your root password
4) then rpm -i filename.rpm ( or use -U if its already install and you want to update it)

[Wolfmight]

Does it woop VLC Player too?

[4play]

no vlc and its a bastard to install.

[Wolfmight]

ah ok, well I've got Suse connected to the internet now. Took bloody forever, but we have things going alright now. Something called " Hot Plug" was a setting that fixed the connection issue

[FXTGx]

I've never used it before, but you may want to check out dyne:bolic. It's whole point is multimedia editing, so it may be optimized for what you're needed.

Not positive, but it's something to look into....maybe

[dbk927]

Ubuntu Studio gets released in April... it comes fully loaded with audio/video production and editing software already bundled.

http://ubuntustudio.org/

check it out