I think that contributing would be better. This kind of comments are quite common in the world of open source applications: Everybody kills them when they aren't ready yet. I could do a large list of things that I don't like of Jahshaka, but instead of that I prefer to invite users and developers to join and make some contributions to it (or make a new program, if you can). I really mean what I say, and I agree with Eugene: It doesn't grow faster just because of its small userbase and the lack of developers. I was a little bit dissapointed at first too, but the last RC actually shows some improvements, and it's becoming an interesting software.Īnd my opinion isn't biased because of some prize, as someone seggested. I think Jahshaka has many interesting things and will be quite usable soon, and has a lot of potential. But I wouldn't call it vaporware or something like that. I understand the criticism to Jahshaka, and I agree with most of the things you have said. Just as I do now with XSI and blender side by side. Adobe After Effects 6.5!īut that doesn't mean that I'll never use jah. So then there was RC3 but not a golden master but it should be possible to do some video editing with it.Īnyway after RC2 I finally let go off my hope and spent lots o' money on software that does do what it promiss. Then there was a V2 RC2 which worked a lot better (I guess because I never used it.) RC2 was the official beta and RC3 would be the golden master. My main man Jahshaka wanted his child V2 to be completed and so there was all of the sudden a V2 RC1. They would do anything to get him bakc into the team. So much that the evil sponsors asked morron Jahshaka if he would PLEASE? come back to the team. But this morron had some followers and they complained too. Smart decision I thought.īut then there was poor fellow Jahshaka who continued to complain about the evil sponsors who would make the software closed source bla,blabla. V3 would mean a complete make over of all the source. So they went on with developping the V3 code (it happens last spring) and promised that it would be up and running this summer. I think because they knew that V2 's code was that buggy it would never even run. So the evil sponsors decided to continue with the software but they would leave the initial roadmap and skipped the V2 release because ehhh. But suddenly it became a NLE and then there was I fight in the development team and the big loser was their lead programmer codenamed Jahshaka (he's the founder.) Jahshaka (the coder) left a very sad message on the jahshaka forum in which he stated the project wasn't opensource anymore and that the evil sponsors had stolen his code. I have been watching it for years and was hoping that it would become a compositor (which it should be according to their website these days). I don't even know if the demos were made with jah but I do know that I never ever could create even a simple animation with it. Trust me when I say that were able to show some gorgeous stuff years ago. If you haven't tried Jahshaka out, now is a great time to take a look as well as vote for a finalist if you are so inclined. The V2 Startup Screen contest was awesome and we have selected the finalists! Now its up to you to help choose the winner! We narrowed it down to the Top 12 so take a look at the awesome entries in the winners circle and vote for your favourite entry! They are all video startup screens and each is really nicely done and I am sure some (if not all) had Blender's help. They are having a contest for the start up screen that will be in the final 2.0 version (they are in RC3 and RC4 is fast approaching), and it's down to 12 finalists. They certainly got plenty of attention at Siggraph, so I expect nothing but good things coming from the team. Jahshaka is a realtime editing and effects system supporting Linux, OsX, Irix and Windows, and is certainly an up-and-comer in the open source graphics/film community. As an open source project Jahshaka was part of the Open Source Pavillion at Siggraph with us. Not Blender news, but think of Jahshaka as Blender's cousin.
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