Authors and Contributors

Adam Williams - wrote the original complete Cinelerra package Copyrighted under GPL and continues to release new versions yearly; this is the HV version <[email protected]> .

Sam - designed and engineered the CINELERRA-GG website and continuously maintains and updates the Operating system and applications.

Willam Morrow - was responsible for the current CINELERRA-GG software version which emphasized crash-free stability; he started adding fixes and features in 2007, merged his version based on the HV version with the CV version in 2016, continued to add new features and fixes and incorporate desirable updates from HV and CV until November 2020.

Software developers working on CINELERRA-GG since at least 2021 along with some areas where they have been crucial (in alphabetical order by first name):

• Andrew Randrianasulu - continuous ongoing support; bug fixes; library upgrades with relevant patches; some nice enhancements; created and debugged builds: NetBSD and the Android tablet using Termux.
• Andras Reuss - created very useful Autosave backup feature in Preferences with Andrew assist.
• Georgy Salnikov - added all of the Help software in the program allowing access to HTML manual pages; major improvement in the Motion plugin; provided scripts and program mods to convert Latex manual to HTML.
• Manuel Virgil - DPX list writer developer; EXR package upgrade to 3.1.4 (not currently in use).
• Mat Nieuwenhoven - creator of the AppImage build procedure; LV2 specific control patch; maintains CINELERRA-GG wikipaedia entry.

Personnel providing current recent testing, examples, demos, and work on the manual or distribution packages for the CINELERRA-GG version (in alphabetical order by first name):

• Andrea Paz - main person who keeps the Manual updated; does builds for early testing of changes; provides examples and demos.
• Andrey Spitsyn - responsible for the huge task of getting the CINELERRA-GG Manual in LaTex. And for the current build farm at https://github.com/einhander/cin-gg-packages/releases.
• DeJay - expert user and frequent responder to users in the Forum.
• Glen MacArthur - provides A/V Linux distro which includes CINELERRA-GG.
• Pierre Autourduglobe - designed and thoroughly tested Interview Mode for implementation; major tester of Mixers; provided reason for getting the Shuttle to work; tested other new features.
• Phyllis Smith - facilitator of checking into GIT the developers and contributors changes to the Programs and to the Manual; tester; creates monthly AppImages when needed.
• RafaMar - updated Spanish translations; instrumental in getting friend's help in adding the Help button to the Batch Render menu; provided additional ShapeWipe transitions.
• Terje Hanssen - especially tests Bluray video media creation providing invaluable feedback.
• + many others, some of who wish to remain anonymous.

Software Developers in the earlier years of CINELERRA-GG (alphabetical by last name):

• Balakhnin, Alexander - author of the Descratch plugin.
• Messick, Eric - provided the initial Shuttle code (FixedImagePhoto.com/Contact).
• Olaf - Cakewalk and Neophyte theme developer - Cakewalk is the default theme due to its being modern; tested and provided much feedback.
• Roenitz, Frederic - wrote the VP8/VP9 render formats.

Contributors and Software Developers through the years either on HV or CV, the Community Version. They are listed by last name in alphabetical order, along with some of their specific expert work - often just a single known item listed, and it may not even have been the most important when they obviously did so much more. The CV developers were responsible for many improvements based on the HV version to include bugfixing, creating build systems, internationalization work, plugins, and IIRC ffmpeg support appeared in one of the CV forks.

• Arendt, David - early tester providing significant feedback.
• Basto, EaSergio M. - completely replaced/fixed autogen.sh; removed old outdated fonts.
• Baverstock, Richard - assisted with working on the SVG plugin; added tape controls in the capture monitor window; major early tester and contributor.
• Bielefeldt, Karl - created gradient wipe plugin; worked on outdated mpeg2enc.
• Brosius, Kevin - provided many patches, for example fixed scroll bar resizing in bclistbox.C; major early contributor.
• Cornet, Jerome - updated Deinterlace plugin for temporal field swap.
• Coulon, Jean-Luc - updated French translation; provided patches for translation gettextization strings.
• Delannoy, Florent - C41 plugin to convert a 16 bit C41 digital intermediate negative file to positive image.
• Diniz, Rafael - worked on the Brazillian Portuguese translation; created Slackware packages.
• Dumuid, Pierre - assisted in merge efforts; added column in File Load dialog box for sorting by extension; wrote Selective Temporal Averaging plugin.
• Erdelyi, Georgely - early on provided patches for libsndfile, titler, and other programs to compile on Suse.
• Ferralis, Nicola - updated Ubuntu PPA over many years; along with Slock Ruddy, responsible for GreyCStoration plugin (currently inactive in CINELERRA-GG), worked on Italian translation.
• Ferrer, Alex - originally put up a Cinelerra manual TWiki; added numerous screenshots / additional topics and maintained the wiki.
• Flaming, Benjamin - created the Diffkey plugin.
• Geddes, Tyler - contributed to CV Version.
• Harang, Camille - worked on fixing guicast programs for big Endian; part of small team of 3 that used Cinelerra to make short documentaries/interviews.
• Heen, Tollef Fog - contributed to CV Version.
• Iniguez, Gustavo - contributed to HV version.
• Joyeux, Sylvain - worked on the UI; worked on configuration/build scripts.
• Kielb, Andreas - created Firewire I/O patches.
• Konink, Stefan de - added patch for playing without sound.
• Kurz, Nathan - added a YUV4MPEG pipe output dialog to the user interface; yuvstream.C program developer; early contributor.
• Maufrais, Nicolas - combined Adam's original Secrets of Cinelerra manual with Alex Ferrer’s Wiki into a single CV manual. He was responsible for maintenance along with many others.
• Mekkes, Greg - added patch to Motion Blur plugin.
• Menk, Michael Eric - contributed to CV Version.
• Montgomery, Monty - Blue Banana color modification plugin; fileffmpeg developer in CV fork.
• Mueller, Johannes - author of keyboard tracks up/down shortcut and horizontal scrolling with the mouse wheel.
• Muylkens, Koen - created the Blue Dot theme.
• Olson, Eric - added YUV411 plugin to improve chroma upsampling results for DV source.
• Pesegov, Valentin - added Russian translation.
• Poure, Jean-Michel - provided fixes in build procedures for Debian; first entry in Mailing List September 2004.
• Rampino, Paolo - aka Akirad, created several colorful/artistic themes; developer of the cinecutie fork (now inactive); worked on Italian translation.
• Reinholdtsen, Petter - assisted in early hardware upgrade; core developer; moved over new features from HV to CV; fixed many, many bugs.
• Robak, Herman - created initial draft repositories; major early contributor.
• Runkaru, Einar - numerous bug fixes; for a long time maintaned a separate branch and currently has his own personal CVE fork; noted first entry in Mailing List in January 2010.
• Schmarsel, Danny - past website designer and administrator for Cinelerra-CV website; created Cinelerra LiveDVD for Slackware (now inactive); provided German translation.
• Seigne, Eric - initial French translation.
• Setti, Riccardo - contributed to CV Version.
• Sixt, Johannes - long time contributor from early on and continuous; notable for merging into Cinelerra-CV the new releases of HV.
• Stewart, Joe - worked on Inkscape for Cinelerra; created Motion Blur plugin.
• Streetman, Dan - developed patch to correct text_to_seconds; added patch to Titler for timecode functionality; patches to ReframeRT.
• Taraba, Mark - provided support for all types of PNGs; first Mailing List entry in August 2004.
• Thaeter, Christian - maintained server to host Cinelerra-CV website.
• Tori, Andraz - responsible for Cinelerra x86 Debian packages; worked on an SVG plugin; added overlaying speedup patch; major early contributor and lots of debugging.
• Traniello, Raffaella - best known for "Cinelerra for Grandma" still active at http://g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/basics.html and helped to maintain the CV manual.
• Vladimirsky, Igor - was igor_ubuntu at one time; developer of the Russian po file; currently supports the Cinelerra-CV site; and much, much more work; noted first entry in Mailing List 2014.
• Vosseler, Hermann - developer of the Reroute plugin used to transfer the Alpha channel and/or the RGB/YUV Components from source track to target track; significant Bezier automation patch for fades, camera and projector.
• Wulff, Jonas - patched Histogram plugin to provide a split output screen.
  
• + many others. We will gladly add anyone who has been inadvertently left out and their contribution to this list upon notification.