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.

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.

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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... :-)

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)

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Does it woop VLC Player too?

no vlc and its a bastard to install.

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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

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

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