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PRE-REQUISITES - The very basic Ubuntu knowledge you need to use this tutorial
INSTALLATION - Install the CinelerraCV package, launch Cinelerra for the first time, run her in a non-English language.
PREPARING MEDIA - Get video, images and sound ready on your disk - Download video from your MiniDV camcorder, pictures from your camera, media from the Internet
ADJUSTING SETTINGS - Basic default settings you may want to change - Adjust Cinelerra’s behaviour to fit your needs
LOADING MEDIA - Import your resources in Cinelerra
FIRST EDITING- Arranging edits in a basic layout
SECOND EDITING - Finishing off and polishing
TITLES - Adding titles, credits, subtitles and other text
TRANSITIONS - Adding transitions between edits
EFFECTS - Adding effetcs, changing the speed, the shape of your video
COMPOSITING - Mixing several videos in a single output
COLOUR GRADING - Manipulating the colours of your video
RENDERING - Turning your project into a real video file, with different formats for different targets; joining video files
MAKING A DVD - Create a DVD-Video out of your video, with ot without a menu
MAKING ANIMATIONS - Import image sequences and make a video frame by frame
COMPILATION - Build CinelerraCV from source code (in English and Italian)
TROUBLESHOOTING - A collection of the most popular troubles (and fixes!)
GLOSSARY - Essential explanations of terms found in Cinelerra, in the Manual, on IRC and on the Mailing List.
Warnings
This document is far from complete. Some content, formatting and screenshots are still missing. Clearly the English has not been reviewed yet.
While I didn’t hear of any fatal consequence for using those pages yet, be warned: work is still in progress. Use at your own risk.
Notes
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Cinelerra is a she.
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"As with many women, learn Cinelerra’s quirks carefully and you will have a good relationship." (Sean M. Pappalardo aka Pegasus_RPG)
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If you can knit with Inkscape, would you mind sending me a new logo with a film ball instead of a wool ball, please?
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This tutorial assumes Grandma uses Ubuntu.
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This tutorial is based on CinelerraCV. If you are using CinelerraHV you may find better help in the Secrets of Cinelerra.
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This tutorial is split in many HOWTOs. It’s meant to be modular, to allow Grandma to try many different workflows. It teaches the easiest ways, that not necessarily produce the best quality. For the best quality always consult the Manual.
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All the technical terms and all the odd words used here have their meaning explained in the glossary.
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Cinelerra is a video editor and compositor. Editing/compositing is only a portion of the big process of video making. Thus she needs the help of other programs and utilities. The ones used in this tutorial are:
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dvgrab (capture)
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Kino (capture, transcoding, exporting)
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Stopmotion (framegrabbing)
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Avidemux (joining files)
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gThumb, GIMP, Imagemagick (image manipulation)
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VLC (playback, saving and transcoding files)
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Ogg Video Tools (OGG file concatenation)
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dvdauthor (dvd authoring)
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ManDVD (dvd authoring and burning)
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K3b (dvd burning)
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KoverArtist (DVD cover creation)
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IMG2LIST, mkframelist (list generation)
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yuvmotionfps, framerate (framerate conversion with interpolation)
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xine (playback)
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Contacts
Polite comments and requests for specific HOWTOs are very welcome. Send a mail to info-at-g-raffa.eu (replace -at- with @).*
Rude feedbacks will be stored here.
*(Writing e-mail addresses this way helps protecting from automatic spammers).
Thanks and references
Many thanks to:
The main reference is and will always be the CinelerraCV Manual.
Other sites I found useful are:
