NEWS
News from all over the world about video post production.
September 2023 new AppImage release
For users who prefer more standard shortcuts for frequently used options, there is an additional AppImage available that contains the same changes as the other releases but with a different set of those shortcuts. It can be downloaded here. The set of changed...
August 2023 new AppImage release
There is now a Mirror video plugin in this release which is quite fun as well as useful. You can read about it here. Besides the Mirror plugin, this month's release contains improvements to the Gain audio plugin, a bug fix for Background Rendering, and some changes to...
July 2023 information
A new CinGG YouTube video was recently created to demonstrate one way to "Collect and Save your Favorite Effects". Saving these effects to an XML file for easy inclusion on your next project is shown later in the video. You can view the video here. There are no new...
June 2023 News Update with new AppImages available
A new "folder"-like expansion in the Resources window under Video Effects, called "Favorites", lists a few of the more frequently used Video Effects. This makes them easy to find quickly. You can create a personalized version of the expanders.txt file in your home...
May 2023 status and update
Recent upgrades to the Forum and Mantis BugTracker requiring reCAPTCHA checkbox have greatly improved the experience and reduced incoming spam. The team is working on testing CinGG with FFmpeg 6.0 which requires integrating about 14 sets of patches specific to...
March 2023 news update
The following libraries are upgraded in the March 31 release: Flac is now at version 1.4.2 Tiff is now at version 4.5.0 Libjpeg-turbo version is 2.1.5.1 Libvpx is now version 1.13.0 For users taking advantage of the Shuttle with CinGG, besides "mouse" initialization...
February 2023 news – See the new document on preserving legacy camcorder videos
Personal Video Archiving - Preserving Your Analog and Digital Memories document is now available here. It describes detailed information on how to “Convert DV and HDV camcorder video formats to Blu-ray Video and burn it on Blu-ray disc using Linux tools”. Then you can...
January 2023 news – Always looking for Developers to submit improvements
Developers can submit bug fixes or enhancements to the Mailing List with no specific restrictions with the goal of making it as easy as possible to encourage submitting code changes. Manual improvements include the following: - The proxy section in Advanced Editing...
December News – new release contains minor fixes
- See the releaseenotes.pdf file for a complete list of these minor fixes. - There are 2 fixes specifically to support Slackware 15.0. Other Operating Systems tested did not seem to exhibit the same errors. - The Manual has a new section “Workflow with Keyframes and...
November News – some recent notes from the Mailing list
- A fix for problems with the alpha channel is in the latest AppImage release. It fixes the issue when using a nested or reference EDL. In addition the fix has solved some problems of displaying images with transparencies in the Compositor and Viewer. - There is a new...