Cinelerra



"Heroine Virtual Ltd. presents an advanced content creation system for Linux. Cinelerra takes what normally is a boring server operating system - studied in computer science classrooms, hidden in back offices - and turns it into a 50,000 watt flamethrower of multimedia editing power. 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. Cinelerra does primarily 3 main things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It's a seemless integration of audio, video, and still photos rarely experienced on a web server. If you want to make movies, you just want to defy the establishment, you want the same kind of compositing and editing suite that the big boys use, on the world's most efficient UNIX operating system, it's time for Cinelerra."

As the summary states, this is a Linux program. It may be possible to get it compiled on other UNIX systems, such as BSD and Solaris (maybe even Mac OS X?). It is not possible to run Cinelerra on Windows, as it has vastly inferior threading compared to Linux. If you use Mandriva Linux, Cinelerra is available in the PLF repository; just setup your repositories and type the following as root:Enjoy,
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