NEWS
News from all over the world about video post production.
HTML version of Cinelerra-GG Manual now available
An HTML version of the Cinelerra-GG Manual is now available thanks to the work of SGE in contributing the necessary tools to make it viable. It is accessible here. The PDF version is also still available here.
Our developer Good Guy has passed away
It is with dismay and sadness that I have to announce this devastating news that our highly esteemed developer W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy died in a traffic accident last Monday at the age of 66. Bill, as he also called in private, was as so often in his free time, out...
October News – Drag select/deselect for groups is now available
Rosa Linux build (x86_64) is here. For an easy way to group edits in Drag and Drop editing mode, an additional feature has been added to either Drag Select using LMB+Alt or Drag Deselect using LMB+Alt+Ctrl. A lesson showing usage of the projector, labels, and...
September News – Motion plugin improvements
The Motion plugin has been improved to provide better results and the corresponding documentation is updated in the manual. Transitions and reverse playback now by default use cache to speed up playing in almost all cases. The transition length can now easily...
August News – Ctrl-z and Ctrl-s for Undo and Save Project now included
Rosa Linux build (x86_64) is here. In order to create more flexibility for Speed Automations, a "Bump" keyframe type was added which is also useful for all of the float autos, such as Fade and Camera. Select Edits to easily create a group of edits which will...
July News – Align Timecodes for certain Timings has been added
Several libraries have been upgraded to include ffmpeg to version 4.3, turbo-jpeg, vorbis, x265, vpx, lv2, aom, and dav1d.Auto Rotate for ffmpeg video that has "metadata" defining 90 degree increments has been implemented and is now the default, but can be changed in...
June News – Introducing Ganging modes for treating multiple audio channels as one
Master/armed gang track operations for closer to DAW-like editing have been implemented. This makes it so that when you modify the master channel, the other related channels are automatically modified in the same manner. For usage details refer to the updated manual...
May News – 50th Monthly release of user builds for various Operating Systems as of this May
Also of note, the bug tracking system implemented around November 2018, which allows for reporting of bugs and feature requests, is now at more than 440 issues with about 250 closed and about 175 open. The height of the Video and Audio tracks can now to adjusted...
Vector graphics program Inkscape 1.0 was released
New enhancements in Inkscape 1.0 After almost three years of development, the free open source vector graphics program Inkscape has been released in version 1.0. Inkscape has been around much longer and was first released in 2003 and has been used productively by many...
April News – Performance Improvements have been added in specific areas
Potential performance improvements include the following: 1) Speed improvements for line drawing using Bresenham's algorithm has been implemented.2) Performance enhancements on the timeline for video/audio re-draws has been added.3) Threading is now used on media...