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Cinelerra 2.0 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody-likes-video-right dept.

Eugenia writes "The best open source A/V production environment for Linux today, Cinelerra, has reached version 2.0. It sports H.264 video encoding/decoding & MPEG-4 audio encoding through Quicktime4Linux, the ability to load any MPEG or IFO file directly, the ability to import raw digital camera files through dcraw, gamma correction for raw digital camera files, better chroma key support and much more. On a similar note, the promising DIVA home video editor (written in GStreamer and Mono/GTK#) is progressing fast as well."

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  1. How about usabilty? by WWWWolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have they actually improved the GUI? I could never ever figure out how to use Cinelerra. (This coming from a long-time Blender user. I'm no stranger to weird interfaces, it's just that sometimes it's easy to hit the limit =)

    And toolkit? Do they still use the weird, inconsistent, completely unaesthetic toolkit? (A lot of cool pro X11 software seems to use fltk these days, why not that?) I don't really mind it that much, but it'd be nice to see a GUI that doesn't make eyes bleed.

    And video compatibility? Specifically, I'm curious how it handles all the stuff captured with mencoder. Can I toss a MJPEG AVI in and it thinks it is what it is? How about XviD support? Make me drool and say it does Theora and Vorbis?

  2. GPGPU for GP? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This kind of app seems ideal for processing on the GPU in the videocard. Not just for rendering the display, but for the codec even on a server. Is there any work on such a beast? Probably ideally a GStreamer filter with APIs running on the CPU, which internally sends the data to/from the GPU, calling an app that actually runs on the GPU, a GPGPU process for graphics processing. Like maybe a Sh shader in a GStreamer wrapper. Such an architecture could allow a GStreamer filter chain to use multiple videocards in parallel in a single machine, for scalable multiprocessing that doesn't bottleneck the CPU, leaving it free to run the rest of the app, UI, network/disk, etc. Is it out there somewhere?

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  3. Re:Is this an accurate statement? by jambarama · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Open Source software has often been acused of lacking in the graphical department. With the advent of more stable Inkscape 0.42.2 and user friendly Gimp 2.0 this has left us lacking only in the video department. Cinerella 2.0 was just released to close that gap. Coupled with alternatives such as diva , blender and others, what is linux and other Open Source operating systems still lacking?

  4. Re:Independent Films by bugnuts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Making a professional-quality movie is generally not cheap. The cost of a single lens on a pro movie camera could put you through college for a year, easily. Film ain't cheap, either.

    But with evolving technology, even a crappy 1.7Ghz computer will be better than the old technology of Xacto knives and splicing tape.

    So, dream of making an independent film all you want, but it's your script, the directing, and the acting that'll make the film, not the post production work.

  5. Heard about vi and Emacs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Heard about vi and Emacs? Those are something as mundane as text editors. Not "word processors", but text editors. Yet they take quite a while getting used to. If you accidentally get into vi, you will not get out again until somebody tells you how.

    Yet many coders love vi, or Emacs. You will probably have a hard time understanding why. That's your loss.