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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. Is this an accurate statement? by coop0030 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The best open source A/V production environment for Linux today


    Is someone tooting their own horn? Or is this really the best software for A/V production?
  2. Re:Is this good for VHS = DVD by WWWWolf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, the best thing is probably using mencoder (part of mplayer) to capture the video through TV card, then using... something... to encode the video. (I've usually used virtualdub to capture and tmpegenc to encode in Windows. Nowadays I use mencoder and capture directly to xvid video; I suppose there's mpeg encoders like.. um... transcode? to do the thing.)

    I'm not sure if it pays to encode the video at DVD quality though, it's not really worth all of the effort. I've personally used VideoCDs, which most DVD players can play. Besides, CD-Rs are cheaper than DVD-Rs.

  3. How do they manage MPEG4 audio? by danigiri · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Mmmmm... I really wonder how do they manage MPEG4 audio encoding via QT4Linux...

    According to Apple, non-MacOSX OS's are not licensed to export AAC audio using QuickTime due to licensing concerns. According to the developer note, once a suitable license is acquired the interested party then could happily encode to AAC using QuickTime.

    I'm dowloading the source code... I'm really curious.

  4. Re:Usability? by eno2001 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have to echo this sentiment. I come from a background where I've worked with Avid/Digedesign products, Adobe Premiere and a few low budget Windows apps (Avid had one a few years back, but I currently use Sony Vegas on Windows XP) and I can say that Cinelerra has a lot of great features but an unusable UI. The fact that to work with two video sources, you need to run two instances of Cinelerra is preposterous. This is a perfect situation where the use of MDI is called for. Trust me, I've been able to make the move from say, Photoshop to GIMP with little trouble. Cinelerra (in it's last version) was a bear to work with. And the UI widgets aren't to helpful either. Bevelled buttons might look neat, but without proper graphics to tell when things are engaged or not, Cinelerra adds that much more work for the user.

    I'm not trying to assail the project itself. I think the concepts behind it are wonderful, but the UI needs to be rethought. If the developer would do what the Xine folks did, and build a base library of all the power in Cinelerra, then build a separate UI to put over the libs while allowing others to write their own UIs, I think we could have a killer app here...

    --
    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  5. 2 videos made with Cinelerra... by Conti · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Cinelerra is for sure the BEST video editor on Linux. The UI is a bit hard to learn, but when you're used to it, it's fast and efficient.
    Here are 2 videos I made with Cinelerra:

    http://www.europephoto.com/studios_conti/stunt_13_ mars_2005.avi

    http://www.europephoto.com/studios_conti/2005/Cont i-Stunt_30_Avril_2005.avi

    They were downloaded thousands of times, and it's about motorbikes.
    Those 2 videos were made entirely with Linux (mono-boot machine, with no windows OS installed on it! ;-))
    The list of software used is written in the end scrolldown. The computer, which runs Debian SID has a XP2400 processor, 1Go RAM and around 500Go of diskspace.

  6. Linux video badness is one reason I switched by Nice2Cats · · Score: 3, Interesting
    One reason I dropped Linux in favor of Mac OS X -- apart from the fact that I needed a laptop that would let me just slam the lid to put it to sleep -- for my main computer was that video editing is such a pain. Cin I never got to work, the documentation was useless (it was basically "if you don't know how professional editing works, go away"), and trying to recompile it was disaster. Kino was okay, but simply not advanced enough. At least the people working on it were polite.

    I don't want much out of video editing -- short clips of the kids for the grandparents, mostly -- and the combination of iMovie and iDVD is simply awesome. Maybe it isn't enough for pros or even semi-pros, but this is one area where Apple kicks Linux ass. I did one DVD using Linux, and that was enough for a lifetime, or at least until somebody gets a good clone of iDVD working.