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Cinelerra Linux video editor - Movie studio in a Linux Box

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That's right kids. Unlike most of the Linux solutions out there, Cinelerra requires no emulation of proprietary operating systems, no commercial add-ons, no banner advertizements, no corporate dependancies, no terrorists, just a boring old Linux box.

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Cinelerra has become my favorite Linux application. The recent release of Version 2.0 - once I'd fixed up the mpeg rendering support missing from the X86_64 package has me almost giddy.

It's been a long road.

I've upgraded my system to an Athlon 64/gigabyte memory, and dream of dual-core and 4 gig with a couple of nodes for a small render farm. Applying multiple masks and effects to multiple tracks that are not squished down into some brutal compression scheme takes a lot of horsepower.

I've endured releases that would alternate between reading/not reading the avi files dumped from my camcorder, not to mention fresh new crashes.

And the user interface is, ummm, a minor challenge that I easily came to grips with in less than a year of playing at it.

But...

This software lets you do things. I produce small videos for the youth ministry at my church. With Cinelerra, I can use masks, I can chromakey, I can track motion, I can sweeten the color mix, I can have several videos going at once, and move them around the screen.

I can barely scratch the surface of the tool and still do more than I had ever imagined possible.

For free.

Definitely worth the effort.

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