Re: Re: Linux Video editing tools

On Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:57 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I havent heard of anything that can doo all the
> cool stuf After-Effects can do with layers, movement of images in 2 and
> 3-D, text, etc. Is there such a tool, and more importantly is there a
> source on the net that would answer these types of video-related questions?

     Cinelerra is probably very close to what you are looking for.  It allows 
timeline-based editing of unlimited audio and video tracks, compositing (with 
many different blending modes), keyframed movement of layers, and real-time 
and/or offline processing.  It also has extensive render farm support.  The 
official web site is located at:

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

If you're interested in Cinelerra, here's how to get it:

Red Hat:
The SourceForge.net project page has RedHat RPMs
(I do not recommend using the source tarballs from this site.)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/heroines/

Gentoo:
The current version of Cinelerra is in the Portage tree

Debian:
http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/

SuSE 9.0
http://kevb.net/files/RPM/

All others:
     There is an unofficial CVS repository and community web site, which also 
has an excellent mailing list.  The source code in the repository has many 
bug-fixes and optimizations not yet included in the latest official release.  
(Including a difference keying plug-in which I wrote last year).  It has also 
been modified to use the familiar GNU auto-tools build system, instead of the 
inflexible build system used by the official source tarballs:

http://cvs.cinelerra.org/

     If you decide to give Cinelerra a try, and you run into installation or 
compiling problems, feel free to e-mail me off-list.

Best regards,

|)
|)enji



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