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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. Please be nice ... by clueless123 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dear Slashdot crowd.. As the mantainer of the cinelerra manual wiki, which runs out of my home cable connection on a P400mhz 64 meg machine ... Please, please, please be gentle..

    1. Re:Please be nice ... by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dear Slashdot crowd.. As the mantainer of the cinelerra manual wiki, which runs out of my home cable connection on a P400mhz 64 meg machine ... Please, please, please be gentle..

      You've made two tragic mistakes in your assumptions: 1. That Slashdotters actually RTFA, and 2. That Slashdotters read documentation of any kind.

  2. Re:Independent Films by clueless123 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lots of people run cinelerra on smaller machines. I would say that anything above 1.5ghz + 500megs of ram would do ... I use a 2.2ghz + 1gig ram, and it does fine

  3. Re:Is this an accurate statement? by jjr23 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. Cinelerra is awesome. I've been creating some custom DVD menu videos with it and it has been really great... especially since they have an optimized x86_64 version. Can't wait to see this new version.

  4. Re:Is this an accurate statement? by bluelip · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's advanced, but difficult to use. (In prior versions anyhow)

    For ease of use w/ most of the advanced features checkout MainActor from Mainconcept

    http://www.mainconcept.com/mainactor_v5.shtml

    Free to DL and test. (Watermark in output)

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  5. For realtime use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    All these specs are for realtime video editing. For offline video editing you can use a more modest system.

    Realtime, online video editing is for people who has clients sitting behind the editor and looking all the process to make changes at the moment.

  6. 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?