CinelerraGG

138

The Comprehensive

User Manual

Video editing for ambitious users

CINELERRA-GG INFINITY

The Comprehensive User Manual

31 October 2024

$\includegraphics[width=0.1\linewidth]{.././images/cin-logo}$

https://www.cinelerra-gg.org

- - CINELERRA-GG – The Comprehensive User Manual
Introduction
- CINELERRA-GG Overview
- Chapters Overview
Contents
Installation
- CINELERRA-GG AppImage
  - AppImage with Standard Shortcuts
- Download Already Built CINELERRA-GG
- How to Build CINELERRA-GG from Developer's Git Repository
- Building the HTML Manual for Context Help
- Windows 10 with Cygwin for CINELERRA-GG Limited
  - Installing Cygwin
  - Installing CINELERRA-GG
- Android Tablet or Phone with TERMUX
- Pre-built Packages and Distros with CINELERRA-GG Included
Interface (the 4+ Windows)
- Program Window
- Compositor Window
- Viewer Window
- Options in both the Compositor and Viewer Windows
  - Click to Play in Viewer and Compositor
  - Timebar + Preview Region Usage in the Compositor and Viewer
- Resources Window
- Other Options and Other Windows
Project and Media Attributes
- Audio attributes
- Video attributes
- Best practice in pre-editing
Load, Save, and the EDL
- EDL — Edit Decision List
- Supported File Formats
- Loading Files
- Saving Your Work
Editing
- The Patchbay
- Manipulating Tracks
  - Displaying tracks: Ganged mode
- Two Screen Editing
  - Use Case – Working with Sequences
- Cut and Paste Editing
- Drag and Drop Editing
- Inter-View Mode – Identifying Source Targets
- Edit Tools
- Multi-Session
- Multi-Viewer Window Support
- ShuttlePROv2 and ShuttleXpress Jog Wheels for Editing
Advanced Editing
- Proxy
- Transcode
- OpenEDL
- File by Reference
- Trimming
  - Split View in Compositor Using the Drag Handle with Trim
- Nesting clips and assets
  - Nested Assets
  - Nested Clips
- Multi-Camera / Mixer
  - Recover Mixer Windows
- Audio/Video sync using Waveforms/Timecodes
  - Audio/Video sync via Waveform
  - Align Timecodes
- Subtitles
Rendering
- Single File Rendering
  - Extra “cin_” Options for Render with FFmpeg
- Some Specific Rendering
- About Image Sequences
- Data storage formulas
- Batch Rendering
  - Advanced features
  - Command Line Rendering
- Background Rendering
- Render Farm Usage
Keyframes
- Automation Keyframes / Autos
- Using Autos
- Speed / Fade Automation Usage and Auto Gang
- Bump autos
- Plugin Keyframes
- Default Keyframe
- Keyframe Edit Params for Plugins
- Generate Keyframes while Tweaking / Automatic Keyframe Mode
- Compositor Keyframes
- More about Editing Keyframes
- Allow Keyframe Spanning
FFmpeg Interactions
- FFmpeg Early Probe Explanation
- How to Create FFmpeg Options Files
- The FFmpeg Image2 Streams
- Raw Input Opts File for Video/Audio
- FFmpeg Items of Note
Plugins
- How to Use Plugins
- Editing Effects
- Copy/Paste Effects
- Shared Effects and Shared Tracks
- Saved Plugin Presets
- Some specific details concerning Plugins
- Audio Effects - Native
- Audio Ladspa Effects
- Audio LV2 / Calf Plugins
- Video Effects — Native
- CUDA plugins
  - Mandelbrot
  - N_Body
- OpenCV plugins
- FFmpeg Audio and Video Plugins
- Rendered Effects
  - Rendered Audio Effects
  - Rendered Video Effects
Transition Plugins
- Audio Transitions
  - Crossfade
- Video Transitions
Overlays
- Math algorithms
- Description
- Alternative Views of Overlay Modes
Capturing and Recording Media
- Record Web Media in real-time
- Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
- The commercial DB
- Transfer VHS/DVD Media or Video8/Hi8 Tapes into CINELERRA-GG
  - Use Case #1 – EasyCap Model # DC60
  - Use Case #2 – Hauppauge WinTV-HVR
DVD and Bluray Creation
- Output Terminal Messages from Creating DVDs
- Debugging DVDs Creation
- DVD-Subtitles
- Dvd Interlaced Chroma
- DVD with LPCM or MP2 audio
- MPEG utility programs
- Creating Blu-ray Without Re-encoding
- Blu-ray Workaround for Mount/Umount
- Blu-ray from Multiple CINELERRA-GG Output
- Use Case: DVD
Shortcuts
- Main window
- Compositor window shortcuts
  - Compositor buttons
  - Compositor keys
- Viewer window shortcuts
  - Viewer buttons
  - Viewer Keys
- Resources window Keys
- Other windows
  - Other Buttons
  - Other Keys
- Alternative Shortcuts
Configuration, Settings and Preferences
- .bcast5
- Playback A / Playback B
- Recording
- Performance
- Interface
- Appearance
- About
- Environment Variables for Customization
How some stuff works
- Copy/Paste and Highlight Usage
- Playing is Different than Seeking/Positioning!
- Color Space and Color Range Affecting Playback
- Automatic "Best Model" Media Load
- Simple Animation (Festival)
- Textbox Non-std Character / Unicode Insertion
Troubleshooting and Help
- Help and Context Help
- Troubleshooting
- What to Include in Problem Reports
- Crash Dumps for Analysis
- When things go wrong
- Menu Bar Shell Commands
- CINELERRA-GG Command Line -h
Performance and other Tips
- Hardware video acceleration
- Optimized Playback – X11 Direct
- Proxy Settings and Transcode
- Cache size and Seconds to preroll render
- Tips for Improving Smaller Computers Use
- General Crash Handling Tips
- Tips for Specific Operations
Translations
Licenses
Authors and Contributors
Appendices
QuickStart
- CINELERRA-GG Quick Start Guide
- Overview on Formats and Codecs
- Overview on Color Management
Developer's Section
- How Builds Really Work and Even More Options
- Experimental Builds
- Configuration Features
- Thirdparty Parallel Build
- Using the very latest Libraries
- Find Lock Problems with Booby Trap
- Valgrind Support Level
- CFLAGS has -Wall
- Prof2 – A Profiler
- Working on AppImage
  - Managing AppImage
  - Build the CinGG.AppImage from scratch
- How to Create a new Theme
- How Context Help works in the Program Code
  - Manual Maintenance is now Tightly Coupled with the Program Code
Auxiliary Programs
- Using Ydiff to check results
- Image Sequence Creation
- Details about .bcast5 Files
- Focusing the 4 main windows as a group
Editing: real-world usage cases
- Workflow with OpenEDL and Nested Clips
- Workflow with multi-cam and external audio
- Workflow with Keyframes and Plugins
- Create a frame for a PiP
- Using Screen Capture on slower CPUs
- Workflow for render yuvj (color range: jpeg) to yuv (color range:mpeg)
FAQ, Known Problems and Workarounds
Glossary
List of Tables
List of Figures
Index
About this document ...

The CINELERRA-GG Community, 2021
https://www.cinelerra-gg.org