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- yeah free beats anything.
btw- just because it requires alot of cpu power doesnt mean it beats the rest:
Shake 3 Linux

    * 550MHz Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor
    * Red Hat Linux 7.2
    * 256MB of RAM or more
    * 1GB of available disk space for caching and temporary files
    * Workstation-class graphics card, such as NVIDIA Quadro2 or Quadro4, ATI Fire GL 8700 or 8800, ATI Fire GL2, or ATI Fire GL4
    * Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color
    * Three-button mouse

I just can not stand cinelerra's awful UI its just like Premiere/AFX.