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Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE 1394 for Chapter 6, Capturing DV , VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV, AVI, and Quicktime formats.
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Kino does not directly edit any video encodings other than DV. |
You can load or import (requires ffmpeg ) multiple DV clips and edit them non-destructively using a variety of techniques including simple split, join, cut-and-paste, and drag-and-drop operations. Then, you can save the project to a SMIL XML document. Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi commands ( Chapter 13, Keyboard Shortcut Reference ). Also, Kino can export ( Chapter 10, Export ) the project in a number of formats:
DV over IEEE 1394
Raw DV, DV AVI
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Quicktime DV (requires libquicktime or Quicktime 4 Linux )
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Tip Quicktime 4 Linux is already installed if you have Cinelerra or Cinelerra CV .
still frames: PPM, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, TGA, and whatever other gdk-pixbuf modules are on your system
WAV
MP3 (requires lame )
Ogg Vorbis (requires oggenc )
Ogg Theora (requires ffmpeg2theora )
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (requires mjpegtools 1.6 or 1.8 )
DVD Video authoring (requires dvdauthor )
MPEG-4, H.264, and Flash Video (requires ffmpeg )
or anything that can read Raw DV from a pipe (e.g. ffmpeg) through user-extensible scripts
The FX mode ( Chapter 9, FX ) provides some basic audio and video effects such as filters and transitions for audio and video. It also provides extensibility through a plugin API. At the time of this writing, all plugins have been incorporated into the Kino releases.
Kino does not offer multitrack capabilities through a timeline user interface, but do not let that discourage you. Many things that would require a multi-track timeline can be accomplished with more planning and manual operations. Some of the built-in effects include:
color video generator
gradient video generator
generate video from stills
video noise generator
audio gain envelope
audio dub
audio mix from WAV (or any format supported by ffmpeg )
audio fade in or out
audio crossfade transition
monochrome
sepia
inverse
blur
soften
flip
mirror image
kaleidoscope
keyframeable pan and zoom
keyframeable brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, value, and white balance (color temperature and green tint)
charcoal
titler (using Pango ) with motion and fading
superimpose stills with motion and fading
keyframeable compositing transition (e.g., fly-in)
numerous and user-extensible wipe transitions
rudimentary (blue or green) color key
dissolve wipe
fade to/from color