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Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint

Posted by timothy on from the frame-set-match dept.

ubiquitin writes "To avoid confusion with the GIMP, the Film Gimp project has renamed itself to CinePaint. The project is essentially a legitimate fork of GIMP, and is focused on image manipulations for moving pictures." We've mentioned Film Gimp several times lately; it'll be even handier as programs like Cinelerra and Kino grow more polished.

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  1. Re:CinePaint? Kind of bland ... by DrPascal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    CinePaint is a "producer friendly" type name, and it sounds like it fits pretty well.

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  2. Put features in the mainline GIMP! by Speare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too bad for the GIMP.

    A lot of people had been hoping to see a backporting and/or merge between these two versions. This sounds like the architecture's going to be mainly irreparable.

    Some people would really like to see deep color channels and stronger tools for doing compositing work on movie frames.

    The more that digital cameras offer 12bpc RAW mode, the more the OSS world is lacking until GIMP can handle them well. Color corrections can and should be done with more bits, to avoid losing fine color integrity.

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