Category: Manuals

Mapping AV streams to DVD

I edited a film in Cinelerra, and rendered it as a QTfor Linux file, settings: Sound ‘two complements’ Video ‘DV’ The soundtrack was exported seperately as Wav files, with exactly the same length. I wanted to replace the original sound with the soundtrack, and used ffmpeg to mux the files and convert them to a […]

Editing software, Manuals, Problems and solutions

FOSS Codecs for Online Video

FOSS Codecs for Online Video: Usability, Uptake and Development An excellent overview of the best available tools for the creation, playback and embedding of online video using Free and Open Source Software video codecs, and a set of recommendations for development to enhance their adoption by social change video projects on the web. Input was […]

Annotation tools, Manuals, Problems and solutions

workshop Command Line Video Editing

In the framework of Verbindingen / Jonctions , Michael Murtaugh made a workshop editing video from the command line in Actic, Brussels. A cookshow full of text based visual magick, examples of small scripts and inverted use of player functionalities. Look on Michaels wiki page which contains example code for encoding tools like ffmpeg and […]

Manuals, Software, Workshop Open Video Libre

Cortado test

A small step for mankind, but a considerable one for me. After having deliberately neclected the subject for a long time, I decided something finally needed to be done about the disfunctional media plugin situation on the videopage of my website. I implemented the Cortado Java applet in the pages linked from this page which […]

Manuals, Software

Remuxer cut cut

When you don’t feel like playing around with complicated editing software but you need straight forward rocket fast video cutting, try trimming your clip with this script. You can set an in- and outpoint and make a new file of the selected area. It works with Theora video + Ogg soundfiles. It’s a python script […]

Editing software, Manuals

Two screen / dual-head set up

Super handy when working with a timeline / viewer editing software is a set up with several screens. I am busy with an elaborate project in Cinelerra, and scrolling through an endless timeline in a too small window is the last thing I need. A widescreen setup and being able to drag files from one […]

Editing software, Manuals, Problems and solutions

Cinelerra Wiki

Tip from the Mailinglist for the unofficial CVS for Cinelerra Alex Ferrer took the much appreciated initiative to built a wiki on Cinelerra: http://ftconsult.taxnetusa.com/twiki/bin/view/Cinelerra/CinelerraManualTOC There is a Spanish and French translation, and it includes a variety of topics related to the software. Installation, editing tips and tricks, hardware requirements and more.

Editing software, Manuals

Video camera & FireWire (IEE1394)

A common problem with fire wire capturing is that the raw1394 (capturing) and dv1394 (export) modules do not start up at boot. This can be solved. This post on the BXLUG website explains how to make a small script that will load the firewire modules at start up. http://www.bxlug.be/articles/220 In an open terminal for root, […]

Editing software, Hardware, Manuals, Problems and solutions

Search & Edit

Michael Murtaugh wrote a script which allows you to edit video sequences based on keywords in a subtitle file. The script uses videogrep, searches for words in the subtitle file, creates an Edit Decision List and plays the file in Mplayer. This way you can search through video files and make content accessible through comments, […]

Annotation tools, Manuals

Making autostart DVD using Tovid

I made a description how I produce DVD’s that play in any DVD player. (PC, Linux, Ubuntu 6.06) The resulting DVD will start the (first) film automatically. The files will play one after the other, seamlessly, and you can jump from one to the other by skipping to the next (or previous) chapter. I use […]

Manuals, Software