CINELERRA-GG Internal Engine

FFmpeg is the default engine, but you can also use its internal engine, which is limited in supported formats but efficient and of high quality.

Video general purpose

RAW DV

supports the DV standard.
Presets: dv

MPEG Video

highly configurable. Extension .m2v.
Presets: mpeg1, mpeg2

OGG Theora/Vorbis

Open, easily configurable. Theora for video, Vorbis for audio.
Presets: theora, vorbis

Image Sequences

There are quite a few formats available. Note: even if CINELERRA-GG outputs fp32, exr/tiff values there are normalized to 0-1.0f.

EXR Sequence

OpenEXR (Open Standard) is a competing film standard to DPX, but Linear type.

Ppm Sequence

is RGB Raw.

Tga Sequence

is RGB(A) compressed or uncompressed.

Tiff Sequence

is RGB(A) or RGB(A)-Float with various compression types.

Jpg, gif Sequences

lossy compressed and limited formats.

Audio general purpose

AC3

widely used multichannel standard (Dolby Digital). Format with lossy compression.
Presets: ac3

Apple/SGI AIFF

Created by Apple; is an uncompressed format (pcm type) or with 32/64-bit floating point compression.
Presets: aif

Sun/Next AU

created by Sun and used in Unix environment, now in disuse. It can be of pcm type or with lossy compression.
Presets: au

Flac

Open, lossless compression, very good quality.
preset: flac

Microsoft WAV

created by Microsoft. It can have 16-24-32-bit linear or float compression.
Presets: wav

MPEG Audio

Very widespread standard. Extension .mp3.
Presets: mp3