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Linux Video Editor Cinelerra 1.0 Released

Posted by chrisd on from the we-missed-broadcast-2000 dept.

Ogerman writes "At long last, Heroine Virtual's Cinelerra 1.0 has been released. This successor to the discontinued Broadcast 2000 project is absolutely amazing and should give Adobe Premiere and others a run for their money as it continues to mature. So, fire up those digital camcorders, get to work on all your latent indie-film ideas, and help put ol' Jack V. out of a job. Here's the 1.0 Press Release." For those unfamiliar with Cinelerra, check out the screen shots.

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  1. Re:Yet another video app that ignores audio... by foobar104 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Friend, everything you said is perfectly valid, but... video finishing is not audio finishing. Fire, DS, EditBox, et cetera are not audio finishing equipment. They have audio input and output capabilities, of course, and you can mix tracks and whatnot. But that's just for scratch audio. The real audio will get mixed and laid down by an audio professional in a ProTools (or similar) suite after the editor finishes the video.

    Basically, the reason why nobody cares about audio in video editing software is because the guy doing the video work is never the same person as the guy doing the audio work. Instead, it's two different people, both highly trained professionals, with totally different areas of expertise.

    Now, if you want to complain about how a particular audio finishing program is inadequate, be my guest. But complaining about how video editing software is a bad audio editing tool is kind of like complaining about what a poor job your screwdriver does of carving your Christmas goose.

  2. Re:video capture by dcstimm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use the Wintv GO Hauppuage card and I can record tv shows with mplayer, xawtv, and vcr,

    I like vcr the best because it has timed recording.

    Here is a example:

    vcr -g /dev/video0 -c 'divx ;-) low-motion' -v -p 38 -F 30 -q 100 -m mono -b 64 -t 32m tv-show.avi

    -g is to set the device (my wintv card is /dev/video0)

    -c 'divx ;-) low-motion' is the video setting

    -v is for verbose

    -p 38 is the channel to record

    -F 30 is the frame rate

    -q 100 is quality and its set to 100 which is best

    -m is to set mono or stereo

    -b 64 is the bitrate for the mp3 audio (64 is perfect for mono audio and 128 and higher is good for stereo)

    -t 32 is the timmer, I have it set for 32min

    and last is the file I am saving it to, which is tv-show.avi

    Hope this shows you how easy it is.

    Plus you can stick vcr in your cron tab to record tv while you are away.

    vcr comes with most distros.

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    keanmarine.com