Sam stated it well. Keep in mind that "professional software" and "commercial software" may be the same thing or have differences. Just because CinelerraGG is free, as opposed to for sale commercial software, does not indicate its professional quality. There is some commercial software that sometimes is not very professional, is unstable, and the majority of it is never warranted. (Just read some of the licensing agreements for commercial software which clearly indicates that they are not held responsible). I would also like to add the following *professional *attributes of the software and service provided by the website: 1 - To loosely paraphrase the original author, video editing used to only be done with exotic software no-one could afford. Now CinelerraGG is the affordable alternative for getting started. 2 - Several users use it to make production videos for which they are paid -- being paid for work is part of the definition of "professional". This most likely includes music videos. 3 - To be considered professional, the software must be reliable and stable. No one wants to put a lot of time and effort into creating a video, just to have the software crash and lose the work. I think that the current state of CinelerraGG is very stable. That is not to say it can not crash, it just means that it is not an everyday thing. 4 - The main developer is a professional programmer. Although no pay is involved for CinelerraGG, he was classically trained in the computer science field with a bachelor's degree and worked for several companies in the industry for over 35 years. In addition, his assistant had worked for pay in the computer field for about 30 years starting out as Sharp Wave in the Navy, bachelor's degree in mathematics with Phi Beta Kappa, and master's degree in Computer Science, not to mention the Cray system programming experience. 5. The web service as provided by Sam is truly a professional work of art completely maintained almost exclusively by him on an ongoing basis. At the same time, his video/photography skills are impeccable. This CinelerraGG website includes such professional qualities as a Bugtracker, a Forum, access to documentation, extremely professional looking pages, and includes language translations where possible. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 2:47 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi all! Why can cinelerra be called a professional editor? What does she have that which others do not have (Kdenlive, Shotcut, Olive, etc.)?

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