Cinelerra Info

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Cinelerra Tutorials

http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs/wiki/doku.php?id=getinvolved
http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs/split_manual_en/cinelerra_cv_manual_en_toc.html#SEC_Contents
http://www.g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/rendering.html#_how_to_choose_the_format_for_rendering
http://www.g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/
http://www.g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/CinHOWTOs/get_media_ready.html#How_to_capture_video_from_your_miniDV
http://www.g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO loading.html#_how_to_load_video_audio_and_still_images_from_disk_to_the_resources_window
http://crazedmuleproductions.blogspot.com/2007/06/beginners-guide-to-exporting-video-from.html
http://makefx.wordpress.com/
http://delicious.com/hadzi/phd.tools.cinelerra
http://content.serveftp.net/video/qtcompatibility.ods.html

I finally released the last (for now) Cinelerra tutorial in the series I have been doing on my podcast. You can check it out at http://www.thesourceshow.org/node/90. I also documented my process for rendering and transcoding the podcast into various media formats at http://www.thesourceshow.org/node/91. If whoever is maintaining the Cinelerra Tutorials section of the website could update that I would appreciate it.

I am doing the following tutorial: http://www.robfisher.net/video/cinelerra2.html

When I get to the following instructions:

<quote> The fastest way to compose a rough cut of your masterpeice is to use two screen editing.

  1. Position the insertion point at the end of the current video. Do

this by clicking the Jump to end Jump to end icon icon. (In which window?)

  2. Drag the source clip from the Resource window into the Viewer.

(I thought it was already in the viewer)

  3. Position the viewer where you want the next shot to start. (I

want to splice it at the end)

  4. Click the In point In point icon icon, or press the '[' key. (I

put a [ at the end)

  5. Position the viewer at where you want the next shot to end. (It

is already at the end)

  6. Click the Out point Out point icon icon, or press the ']' key.

(the ] is on top of the [)

  7. Click the Splice Splice icon icon, or press the 'v' key.  (Here

something is wrong, because nothing happens)

Repeat this process to build up your video. You can view the result at any point in the Compositor window. </quote>

What am I not understanding?

the [ and ] in the viewer should be around the part you wish to put into the timeline. move the timeline's whatsitsname scrubbing-thing last in the timeline and press the splice icon.

Something like that?

Gasten

Cinelerra + MIDI patch + DM2 Demo (turntable)
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ruJVAiUYf7g
https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/cinelerra/2008-March/013607.html

about cinelerra
http://lwn.net/Articles/262985/
http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/node/28

about lumierea
http://www.pipapo.org/pipawiki/Lumiera/GuiBrainstorming

pure:dyne

http://download.goto10.org/puredyne/leek_and_potato/puredyne-leek_and_potato-rsync.iso

pure:dyne for everybody workshop at access space 9.5.2008
life cds to download
royalrabbit.goto10.org/rl/NL_waag.org/miso/

hosts: access space, sheffield

system
- all the infos you get from devel.goto10.org/puredyne/wiki
- best to have one project folder with project name, keep all clean
- never name with space in linux
- to switch between desktop use CTRL-ALT and arrow right/left
- to get two monitors running: google on dual head nvidia for get both monitors working edit /etc/x11/xorg.conf
example for "nvidia" card
then use application: "nvidia-settings" to add more monitors
rc for pure:dyne is #pure:dyne on irc.goto10.org (for the pure dyne)
use weechat as irc application

capturing file/live stream & transcoding
see https://devel.goto10.org/puredyne/wiki/pd4e-video-kino for basic capture, edit and export from a firewire dv cam in kino instructions
- for capturing we use kino, see kinodv.org
- start kino through the terminal typing in kino, advantage is that you see what happens, per example when it crashes
- the firewire drive is not readable by default in debian, you need to open a terminal on change permission (see manual, something like chmod 666 /dev/raw1234)
- kino captures automatically with scene detect
- kino can be used to transcode into mpeg4/3gpp etc.
- avidemux can do batch transcoding

editing
- use cinelerra
https://devel.goto10.org/puredyne/wiki/video-workshop
search the archives of the cinelerra mailinglist regarding problems
irc for cinelerra is #cinelerra on freenode
- open cinelerra through terminal with comman cinelerra
you need to enable shared memory for cinelerra (often this doesn't happen on startup) therefor you need to change into super user su and type in the line as stated at startup (see also documentation)
- follow up project of cinelerra is "lumiere", a collaboration between the cvs.cinelerra & open movie editor team
- kdenlife will also be included within the pure:dyne distribution (same guy who developed kino is developing mltframework & kdenlife)
- playback is jerky
you need to go to preferences (in tab performance) and enable back frame rendering, (and add a backslash behind the output link for the mpeg files
/berender/ maybe also add render) cinelerra will write individual low quality mpeg fram into a cache wich enables it to run much more smothly. then restart cinelerra
- check on autosave settings (don't forget to save because of crashes)

basic editing with cinelera
https://devel.goto10.org/puredyne/wiki/pd4e-video-cinelerra-stage1
you can do in and out point
you can creat subclips of the master clip & rename them with the tool besides setting in and out point
you make clips by simply using the timeline
the arrow is the drag and drop tool
the cursor symbol is the editing tool
- you can also drag files into the viewer window without having to drop them into the timeline
you can make subclips in the viewer window
the best thing when starting with a project is to import all the media files into the viewer & make subclips from the viewer & name the sensibely
- make sure the green playback button is enable to see it
the red record button is for editing if you want to save it from editing (lock it)
- the whiteline is the levels it needs to be activated over the menu view
in the menu view you can see assets, fades, etc.

titles/subtiteling
- select with the cut & paste in edit mode on the timeline the area you want to be titled
then in video effects you select title & drag it into the selected area
then write text into it by clicking on the luppe
- generate keyframes, with keyframes you can put different titles into the same
make sure that you enable keyframes
- write the credits in open office. make an image file (with gimp) & then import the image file into cinelerra & use the pan function to make credits

effects
- the keyframes can be used to make any kind of effects & controll them

xyz concept
with 0 button as short cut you can toggle this on and off
with 3 you can togle between anything, the short cuts are always explained in the menu, see the view menu
in menu window show overlays you can select camera position for x/y/z

transcoding & colorcorrection/filters with avidemux
https://devel.goto10.org/puredyne/wiki/pd4e-avidemux-intro
you can buy the manual on flossmanuals.net
- pay attention to understand the concept of lossy codecs, where you loose information forever or you can have loss less codecs wich will have no loss of information when transcoding. ex. for audio flac is a truely lossless audio compression. wav is completely uncompressed, frame after frame (32bit 192khz sample rate, very high quality)
with video the important bit is that the codecs sit alongside each other in a container, wich is a format like .avi (microsoft format) or .mov (mac os) - since we have video we have two different types of media inside our containt the video codec & the audio codec quicktime dv is a lossless codec, completely uncompressed
- understand the concept of interlacing: one frame contains all the even lines & the other fram contains all the odd frames - television can understand the interlaced format. if you play back on an lcd screen or computer screen you need to merge those two lines, that's called deinterlacing
- colorcorrection in avidemux
avidemux can be use to apply filters
to do batch list / job lists: