Which version of "Wine", or am I on the wrong track?

[James Linder]

On 18/04/2012, at 10:00 PM, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:

>>>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
>>>>> I am not sure which version of Wine to install from Macports (there
>>>>> are three), or if this is even the right approach for what I want to
>>>>> do.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The goal: Edit a "movie" (screen recording), from the view that 80-90%
>>>>> of what I recorded will be tossed.
>>>>> iMovie is a failure (as far as I can tell) as selecting sections and
>>>>> removing them.
>>>> 
>>>> Pretty sure you can cut frames with iMovie.
>> 
>> I am completely unable to manage selecting frames and deleting them
>> with iMovie. Maybe there's a trick that I don't know.
>> 
>> Things/commands/keystrokes behave differently when there is a
>> selection inside the current clip and when there is not.
>> Things behave differently when you are working with a clip in a
>> project vs an event clip.
>> I cannot find a way to adjust the left/right ends of a selection
>> without simply moving the selection -- the length of the selection
>> does not change when I try to adjust the start or end point of a
>> selection.
>> 
>> I want to be able to say "This selection is what I want to toss", and
>> at other times "This selection is what I want to keep".
> 
> Not reallly how iMovie works.
> 
> What you need to do is just insert 'cuts'.
> 
> Say the following is your video:
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Now say you want to remove a chunk in there, you would just 'cut' it in
> front of band behind where you want, effectively making 3 separate videos
> that are now strung together.
> 
> ----------|------------|------------------
> 
> Now just click on the middle section and remove it
> 
> Video editing is a little different mind-set from editing pretty much
> anything else.  Think of your video as a long section of tape, or even
> film.  If you want to remove frames from a section of film, you cut on
> either side of it and remove it, then splice the two ends together.
> Since you're all digital now, the splicing is automatic, even giving you
> the chance to add a transition for dramatic effect.
> 
> It's been a while since I've done anything in iMovie, but that's the
> gist of it.
> 
> But now we're way off topic for this list. :)

But THAT is what I like about avidemux, a video editor for bears of little brain (Winnie thur Poo, AA Milne)
<ctrl>C <ctrl>V (maybe <cmd>c for Mac, I don't recall) etc obvious usage with none of this timeline nonsense.

James