Introduction

CINELERRA-GG is a software program NLE, Non-Linear Editor, that provides a way to edit, record, and play audio or video media. It can also be used to transcode media from one format to another or to correct and retouch photos. CINELERRA-GG currently runs on many Linux operating system distributions.

This manual covers the CINELERRA-GG INFINITY version. Information contained in this manual is a description of the CINELERRA-GG program usage and was obtained from various sources to include different communication channels, emails, common knowledge, and write-ups as new features were added. The origin of this manual has always been present in the CINELERRA-GG source code in the doc subdirectory as cinelerral.html and can be found at: Secrets of Cinelerra by the original author Adam Williams. Over time his manual was enhanced by Alex Ferrer with Adam's and Alex's work becoming the baseline for the CV manual and subsequently that combined work was mostly incorporated into this manual. Interestingly, starting from Secrets of Cinelerra which is about 122 full pages, to the CV manual of about 212 pages at the time it was incorporated here, this manual has now grown to over 780 pages. More information about the manual and source code contributions can be found here: Authors and Contributors.

The author of the original CINELERRA program, Adam Williams, as well as many different people have modified the CINELERRA source code over the years. William Morrow used Adam's source code as the baseline and merged all of the known changes at the time, whenever possible, into this CINELERRA-GG version and had been adding numerous features, updates, and fixes.

NOTE1: This manual is a Work in Progress: monthly parts are added to cover the new features introduced in CINELERRA-GG. The texts are continuously revised to make them clearer and more complete. In order to have a better and better product we rely on the suggestions and criticisms of our readers. Do not hesitate to let us know your opinions. For this continuous variability, we recommend that you download the manual at least once a month, during the release of CINELERRA-GG, so that its content is always up to date.

NOTE2: this manual, in the HTML version present on the website, is the base of the Context Help that can be called inside the program. For each window, button and plugins we can open the relative web page of the manual with ALT/h keys. More details in Help and Context Help.

The CINELERRA-GG software is under GPLv2+ license. A notice of this is included in the software and shown here.

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