Cinelerra GG Infinity
Cinelerra GG Infinity is a free and open source video editing software for Linux. It handles rendering, compositing, motion tracking, video editing and much more. It is a rolling release, every month, and therefore the additional name Infinity. If you want to get started right away, click here.
What features does Cinelerra have?
Here you see a small part of the extensive features. Cinelerra GG Infinity is an 8k editor, supports LV2 like the audio mastering software Calf Studio Gear and works with multiple cameras. It supports proxies and has a text editor for creating titles and texts for your videos. Here you will find a more extensive feature list.
What is Cinelerra GG Infinity?
Cinelerra GG is a free video editing software that lets you edit your videos and make them look like a movie with transitions, effects and text. You can use it to cut out unsightly parts of your video, rearrange sequences, add beautiful transitions, improve visual detail or audio quality, and add music. Render your new video project directly with YouTube presets. Cinelerra GG Infinity is designed for professionals, but it’s just as good for beginners as it is for getting the most out of their videos.
Free video editing software
Cinelerra GG Infinity is a resource-saving free video editing software for Linux. It is characterized by extensive possibilities to modify video and audio media. Through the integration of the software package FFmpeg, hundreds of extensions and codecs therefore are available. It is certainly not comparable with the functionality of the most important commercial video editing software in the field of video postproduction, but it is more than sufficient for common user. It is free and open source. Together with many filmmakers, developers and supporters we pursue a continuous development, hence the additional name Infinity, for a monthly rolling release.
November 2023 Release and Build Farm Announcement
- Announcing the new build farm for Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and Fedora here. Packages are generally for the current/latest release of several distros and there may be other Operating Systems added in the future. These packages are advantageous for users who prefer this method of upgrading packages on their computer. In addition, the packages are updated when there is a checked in change to GIT so that the very latest CinGG is ready earlier then the end of the month releases. Currently available are Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and Fedora.
- FFmpeg has been upgraded to 6.1 from 5.1. Changes made that are most relevant to CinGG are:
- 1. New plugins/filters include Video of backgroundkey, ccrepack, zoneplate, and Audio of adrc (audio spectral dynamic range controller) and afdelaysrc. Plus a new mode has been added to the F_cropdetect filter to detect crop-area based on motion vectors and edges.
- 2. There are some additional encoders, decoders, and demuxers. Of note are WBMP (Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap) and Radiance HDR image support.
- 3. Numerous updates to codec libraries for latest industry standards and formats, many bug fixes, stability improvements, hardware acceleration improvements, and threading enhancements. These may not be obvious while using CinGG, but are beneficial in the background during execution.
- 4. VA-API encoding and decoding support for 10/12-bit 422, 10/12-bit 444 HEVC and VP9 support.
- 5. Very dependent on each user’s Hardware and Software setup, there is the possibility of taking advantage of ffmpeg 6.1’s support for AV1 hardware decoding across Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD GPUs and NVIDIA NVENC AV1 encoding support. However, at this time CinGG is still being built with dav1d at 0.5.1 so actual usage implementation may not be available in the supplied binaries.
- Libvpx has been upgraded to 1.13.1 from 1.13.0 in order to provide two security related fixes – 1 each for VP8 and VP9. It is basically binary compatible with the previous release.
- Tiff has been upgraded to 4.6.0 from 4.5.0 to include bug fixes, configuration changes, but no new or changed functionality.
ShuttlePro v2 & ShuttleXpress
Many video editing experts prefer to work with the appropriate video editing control devices to increase workflow. In response to user demand, we have integrated the Jog Wheels ShuttlePROv2 and ShuttleXpress into Cinelerra-GG to facilitate intuitive operation. More detailed information can be found in the User Manual.
Is Cinelerra GG Infinity also available for other operating systems?
Cinelerra GG Infinity is available for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Due to the lack of professional video editing applications for Linux, Cinelerra was developed for Linux. Cinelerra GG therefore serves as a replacement and for this reason there is no Windows or Mac version. We support up to nine different distributions. Click here to go to the download overview page.
I need help, who can help me?
We are a free community of filmmakers and developers and help each other. If you don’t know what to do and need help, our dedicated volunteers or developers will help. Here you will find a support overview of all important contact points, from forums, issue trackers to mailing lists. If you are new here, we recommend that you use the forum first. Here you will find the documentation, try to get a small overview there.