Category: Software

dyne:bolic

dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognized most device and peripherals: audio, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb and more; all using only […]

Software

CVS Cinelerra

This is an unofficial SVN repository and community home page for Cinelerra, the non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux. This site offers a collection of user contributed tutorials, some links, and a SVN repository. It is intended for developers and adventurous Linux users who want to contribute to the development of Cinelerra. http://cvs.cinelerra.org/about.php

Editing software, Software

Using linux to edit HDV video

Here a blog of someone writing about using linux to edit HDV video. http://crazedmuleproductions.blogspot.com/ That should have some interesting things for the video editing project. Jan

Editing software

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

Media streams: an iconic visual language for video annotation

I guess this post catogorises as ‘Annotation memorabilia’, posted here not so much because of its actuality, but for archiving sake. As contribution to magazine Telektronikk 4.93: Cyberspace, Marc Davis introduced an iconographic system for the representation of video-content. This system; Media Streams, is written in the beginning of the nineties. Departing from the assumption […]

Annotation tools

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

O.S. DVD

On his website Adrie van der Heijden explains how he produces DVD’s from digital video working with Mandrake. Contains some handy tips (loading IEEE 1394 modules) and an explanation of setting up a renderfarm; something I would like to know more about. Nederlands: http://www.kerklied.com/adrie/presentatiedvdmaken.html English: http://www.kerklied.com/adrie/presentatiedvdmakeneng.html + He seems to be a gifted animator:

Editing software, Manuals