- video
- commandline tools
- Basic Operations
- * transcoding (changing from one format of video to another)
- * filtering / resizing
- * extracting (pulling out a selection of video)
- * movie to images
- * images to movie
- * joining audio & video
- tovid
- ffmpeg
- SoX - Sound eXchange
- dvgrab
- dvgrab is a program that captures DV or HDV (MPEG2-TS) video and audio
data from digital camcorders via FireWire (IEEE 1394). The data is
stored in one or several files and can later be processed by video
editing software. dvgrab can remote control the camcorder but it does
not show the video’s content on screen.
- dvgrab › Wiki › ubuntuusers.de
- interactive Modus
- dvgrab -i
- q=quit, p=play, c=capture, Esc=stop, h=reverse, j=backward scan, k=pause
- l=forward scan, a=rewind, z=fast forward, 0-9=trickplay, <space>=play/pause
- forum
- manpage
- conv-dvd
- a set of Linux scripts to capture a DV video stream over FireWire from a digital camcorder and save it locally in an AVI encapsulation, then convert them to DVD.
- grab
- This is the script that performs the DV capture over FireWire.
- conv-dvd
- converts the previously captured DV files to the DVD format.
- Usage:
- * create a special directory where all work will be performed and enter that directory
* make sure that you have enough space on the disk: around 25GB total might be needed for a 60 minutes DV tape
* connect the camcorder to the computer over FireWire, turn on camcorder, rewind the tape if necessary
* launch the grab script with a parameter indicating the name of the project (ideally no spaces or special characters): grab my-movie
* immediately after that, push the Play button on the camcorder
* after the tape has stopped playing, kill the grab script (CTRL-C), turn off camcorder, disconnect from computer
* in the same directory, launch the conv-dvd script with the same project name parameter: conv-dvd my-movie
* let it run for a while; about 5 hours are needed on an AthlonXP 2600 to convert a 60 minutes tape when using the default script settings (most modifications will increase conversion speed but will decrease image quality)
* when it's done, inside the project directory you will find a DVD image structure that can be burned to DVD with your software of choice
- transcode
- a suite of command line utilities for transcoding video and audio codecs, and for converting beween different container formats. Transcode can decode and encode many audio and video formats, e.g.
- * MPEG-1/2
- * MPEG-4(-part 3) (also DivX and XviD variants)
- * Quicktime / MPEG-PS (dvd) (decode only)
- * MPEG-1-layer-1/2/3 audio
- * AC3 audio
- Transcode can import DVDs on-the-fly, or record from Video4Linux (including V4L2 video capturing) devices.
- DVDs on-the-fly
- Video4Linux
- Documentation
- mailinglist
- tcforge.berlios.de
- crafting the bleeding edge of transcode
- manpage
- mjpeg tools
- The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and
playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio
and video under Linux. This package combines them with important supporting
libraries required for their use.
- mjpeg-howto
- mjpeg.sourceforge.net > Files
- Although primarily intended for use with capture / playback boards based on the Zoran ZR36067 MJPEG codec chip, the mjpegtools can easily be used to process and compress MJPEG video streams captured using xawtv using simple frame-buffer devices.
- The "lavrec" utility supplied supports capture from Zoran based MJPEG
capture/playback cards like the Buz (Iomega), DC10 (MIRO, Pinnacle) and the
LML33 (Linux Media Labs). Compatible MJPEG avi files can also be created
using any frame-grabbing card supported by the xawtv tool.
- Videos recorded in this can be filtered, editted, and converted to MPEG
streams. The MPEG encoder is optimised for high quality results at medium
to high bit-rates (1Mbps upwards) and supports MMX/SSE/3D-Now and SMP. A
Duron 700 can deliver around 15-20 352x288 frames per second.
- A key design objective of the tools is interoperability with other video
tools: currently xawtv, bcast2000, nuppelvideo and vcdimager are known to
interoperate. The MJPEG utilities can read AVI, Quicktime, and movtar
streams. The MPEG encoder can produce streams suitable for buring to
VCD/SVCD using vcdimager or similar tools. The software playback of MPEG
streams works with almost every player and every OS. SSE/MMX and 3D-Now!
are supported permitting a 700Mhz CPU to deliver arond 15-20 VCD
frames/second.
- Mailing Lists
- Linux.com :: The MJPEG tools
- Phaeton's Blog: mjpegtools
- videohelp.com > Tools > MJPEG Tools
- How-To: Alter Video Speed with FFmpeg and mjpegtools
- The MPJEG Tools A Little MJPEG Tools History Capturing Video
- JPEG to MPEG conversion howto
- Howto:Videocapturing + DVD Authoring unter Linux per Konsole
- mindfactory.de > Forum > Linux-mac > 6329-howto-videocapturing-dvd-authoring-linux-per-konsole
- German mjpegtools Howto
- the tools (with manpage descriptions)
- mpeg2enc
- mjpeg_simd_helper
- lav2wav
- Extract the audio out of MJPEG container files to stdout
- lav2yuv
- Convert a MJPEG file to raw yuv
- yuvmedianfilter
- A filter for yuv images produced by the mjpeg tools
- lavaddwav
- lavtrans
- Convert MJPEG videos to other MJPEG video formats
- ypipe
- yuv2lav
- encodes lavtool’s raw YUV frame streams into MJPEG files
- transist.flt
- matteblend.flt
- multiblend.flt
- lavpipe
- creates raw YUV streams from pipe list scripts
- yuvscaler
- UPscales or DOWNscales a YUV4MPEG2 stream to a specified
- yuvcorrect
- yuvcorrect_tune
- jpeg2yuv
- Convert jpeg images to the yuv format.
- pnmtoy4m
- Convert PNM/PAM images to YUV4MPEG2 stream
- y4mtoppm
- Convert YUV4MPEG2 stream to PPM images
- y4mtopnm
- Convert a YUV4MPEG2 stream to PNM images
- pgmtoy4m
- Convert mpeg2dec pgm and pgmpipe output to YUV4MPEG2
- y4mcolorbars
- Create a YUV4MPEG2 stream containing a colorbar test pattern
- lavinfo
- takes a list of editlist or lav files, and prints out info about them
- must all be of same dimensions
- y4mshift
- y4mspatialfilter
- y4mstabilizer
- yuvfps
- Converts to a different frame rate
- y4mhist
- y4mblack
- y4mtoyuv
- y4minterlace
- yuv4mpeg
- video stream format used by pipe-based MJPEGtools
- yuyvtoy4m
- repacks YUYV (YUY2) and UYVY 4:2:2 streams into 4:2:2 planar YUV4MPEG2 streams
- yuvinactive
- Set a part of the video to a defined state
- glav
- yuvplay
- Display YUV4MPEG2 streams (using SDL)
- lavrec
- Record MJPEG-video from a zoran/video4linux-device
- testrec
- lavvideo
- shows an overlay video window on the screen.
- lavplay
- Playback and edit MJPEG video
- png2yuv
- Convert PNG images to the YUV4MPEG stream format.
- mp2enc
- Simple MPEG-1 layer-II audio encoder
- mplex
- MPEG 1/2 program/system stream multiplexer
- anytovcd.sh
- lav2avi.sh
- lav2mpeg
- easy conversion of lav files to mpeg
- mpegtranscode
- script to transcode video (e.g dvd ) to mpeg2
- yuvdenoise
- Motion-Compensating-YUV4MPEG2-frame-denoiser
- yuvycsnoise
- Noise filter specialized for NTSC Y/C separation noise
- yuvkineco
- revert 2-3 pulldown movie
- yuvdeinterlace
- Motion-Compensating-Deinterlacer
- y4mdenoise
- Motion-compensating YUV4MPEG-frame denoiser
- y4munsharp
- Unsharp filter for YUV4MPEG2 streams
- manpage
- Any2DVD
- tutorials
- mencoder
- mencoder (MPlayer’s Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies to other MPlayer-playable formats. It encodes to MPEG-4(DivX/Xvid), one of the libavcodec codecs and PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio in 1, 2 or 3 passes. Furthermore it has stream copying abilities, a powerful filter system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, noise, RGB/YUV conversion) and more.
- Documentation
- Basic usage of MEncoder
- Encoding with MEncoder
- EXAMPLE MENCODER CONFIGURATION FILE:
- # Make MEncoder output to a default filename.
o=encoded.avi
# The next 4 lines allow mencoder tv:// to start capturing immediately.
oac=pcm=yes
ovc=lavc=yes
lavcopts=vcodec=mjpeg
tv=driver=v4l2:input=1:width=768:height=576:device=/dev/video0:audiorate=48000
# more complex default encoding option set
lavcopts=vcodec=mpeg4:autoaspect=1
lameopts=aq=2:vbr=4
ovc=lavc=1
oac=lavc=1
passlogfile=pass1stats.log
noautoexpand=1
subfont-autoscale=3
subfont-osd-scale=6
subfont-text-scale=4
subalign=2
subpos=96
spuaa=20
- Tutorials
- manpage
- mplayer
- mplayer is a movie (and audio) player for Linux. It plays most
MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, RM, QT/MOV/MP4, Ogg/OGM, MKV,
VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and RoQ files, supported
by many native and binary codecs. You can watch Video CD, SVCD,
DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too.
- Documentation
- features
fully configurable, command-driven control layer which
allows you to control MPlayer using keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote
control (with LIRC).
- nother great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.
- - supports a wide range of video and audio output drivers. X11, Xv,OpenGL, fbdev, DirectFB, SDL, VESA (on every VESA-compatible card, even without X11), etc.
- onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big
antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls.
- supports 12 subtitle formats and DVD subtitles
- different configurations profiles can be defined in the configuration files
- Tutorials
- manpage
- Successfully install the svn mplayer + gmplayer + all the codecs.
- oggmtools
- Tools for manipulating Ogg multimedia streams
These tools manipulate Ogg media streams:
* ogminfo - displays stream information
* ogmdemux - demuxes an ogm stream into its component media streams
* ogmsplit - splits an ogm stream into chunks
* ogmmerge - joins media streams into an ogm stream
* dvdxchap - extracts chapter information from DVDs
- dirac
- general purpose video codec - commandline utilities
Dirac is a video codec that provides general-purpose video compression
and decompression tools comparable with state-of-the-art systems. It is
developed by BBC.
http://dirac.sourceforge.net
- mkvtoolnix
- These tools can work with Matroska files:
* mkvmerge creates Matroska files from various other formats.
* mkvinfo lists information about the tracks contained in a Matroska
file.
* mkvextract extracts tracks from a Matroska file into other suitable
file formats.
mmg is a GUI frontend to mkvmerge.
Matroska is aiming to become the standard of Multimedia Container
Formats. It is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a
kind of binary version of XML.
- ffmpeg2theora
- a very useful application that enables you to manipulate all kinds of video with the Ogg Theora video file format ('codec').
- Its pretty impossible to give a quick summary of what ffmpeg2theora can do as it is a very powerful application. You can send live video from a video camera across the internet, capture video from a DV camera, convert other formats to Ogg Theora, change the size of video files, add extra audio tracks etc etc etc
- en.flossmanuals.net > Ffmpeg2theora
- blog
- howto's
- back to root map
- Kino
- A great open-source DV video editor. Offers easy and reliable digital video editing for the GNU/Linux desktop, and works well with IEEE-1394 to capture digital video and provide video tape recorder control.
Load several video clips, cut and paste pieces of video or audio, and save it as an edit decision list in SMIL XML format (xml specification that you use to describe an audio/video montage).
BTW, Other programs like Open Movie Editor can also export to SMIL.
Kino can:
-capture in 4:3 or 16:9, PAL or NTSC
-capture from firewire port(IEEE 1394)
-edit the captured files
-save projects in SMIL 2.0/Kino 0.9.1 XML/MJPEG Tools ELI/SRT subtitle
-add effects
-import .mpg/.avi/.ogg Theora Video files, & more.
-export DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4.
Kino captures in .dv so you need approximately 30GB to record 120min and more space to export! And don't capture more than 120min into one file. Kino might make a mistake.
If Kino wants raw1394 to be loaded and permissions to it, type:
sudo chown 666 /dev/raw1394 - Features
- User Guide
- en.flossmanuals.net > Kino
- HOWTOs
- FAQ
- Mailing Lists
- forum
- en.wikipedia.org > Wiki > Kino (software)
- Import/export tutorial
- Kino - 2003 Tutorial on professional video editing
- manpage
- Kino Plus Plug-in
youtube
- LiVES
- a Video Editing System and VJ tool. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.
It's a linear AND non-linear video editor. DV and HDV recording from Firewire. quite callenging to use! Lots of effects, features, container support and it uses JACK.
lives has a unique interface where you work on a single clip at a time. However, if you want to combine the clips in some way, then you have to toggle in the "multitrack" interface. At this point, you can no longer do things to a clip like add effects etc. by having a separate "multitrack" window, lives didn't really follow many of the conventions for such an interface.
But once you get to grips with the interface...
- LiVES is good enough to be used as a VJ tool for professional performances, and as a video editor is capable of creating dazzling clips in a wide variety of formats.
- LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which can be used by both VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, trim and edit your clips, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away as a new clip !
- vj
- LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates.
- It is a very flexible tool which can be used by both VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, trim and edit your clips, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline.
- You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away as a new clip !
- the application can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server. And it supports all of the latest free standards.
- Documentation
- forum
- Features
- * Stable and well tested core.
- * The LiVES audio/video platform is custom extendable through RFX plugins. See the Custom RFX page for more details.
- * Allows quick and easy prototyping of new tools, utilities, effects, transitions, generators and more, using the included RFX builder window.
- * Will scale for high/low end hardware. Can be split into client/server components.
- * Control every function in LiVES remotely using OSC protocol.
- Video
- * Loading and editing of almost any video format (via mplayer decoder).
- * Some formats can be opened instantly using decoder plugins (e.g. dv and ogg/theora).
- * Smooth playback at variable frame rates, forward and in reverse. Display framerate can be controlled independantly of playback framerate.
- * Frame accurate cutting and pasting within and between clips.
- * Saving/re-encoding of clips, selections, and individual frames.
- * Lossless backup/restore.
- * Streaming input and output.
- * Real time blending of clips (various chroma and luma blends).
- * Can handle in/out streams in LiVES to LiVES or yuv4mpeg format. Streams can be piped from stdout into other applications.
- * Supports fixed and variable framerates. Playback rate can be smoothly adjusted independant of display rate.
- * Ability to 'scratch' with video - that is to move smoothly backwards and forwards through it, and to record yourself doing so.
- * Playback can use LiVES' own internal player, there is also a high performance fullscreen SDL playback plugin
- * Internal support for RGB24, RGBA32, YUVA, YUV, YUV422, YUV420 (jpeg and mpeg), YUYV, YUV411, and UYVY palettes; one step conversion with chroma super and subsampling is implemented.
- * Clamped and unclamped YUV is supported.
- * Ability to edit many filetypes and sources including remotely located files (with mplayer/ffmpeg libraries), and directories of images.
- * Real time capture/recording of interactive (via mouseclicks) external windows.
- * Encode to any of the 50+ output formats which are now supported (e.g. mjpeg, mpeg4, mpeg1/2, h264, VCD, SVCD, DVD, ogg/mp4 ogm, Matroska mkv, dv, swf, Ogg Theora, Dirac, MNG, Snow, xvid, and even animated GIF and PDF!)
- * Encoder formats can easily be extended through the encoder plugin API.
- * LiVES will suggest the best settings for saving to each format.
- * Resampling of video (time stretching) to any frame rate (1 to 200 fps - accurate to 8 decimal places); option to auto-resample or speed up/slow down between clips.
- * Ability to instantly alter the playback speed of video and audio independently.
- * Rotation, resizing and trimming of video clips.
- * Deinterlacing, subtitle removal. Auto deinterlacing for dv can be enabled.
- * Instant saving/loading of clips for performances/presentations.
- videojack standard
- Audio
- * Can load mp3, ogg, mod, xm and wav files.
- * LiVES can also load tracks directly off CD to use with your video (using cdda2wav).
- * Ability to save audio selections, and append audio.
- * Sound can be trimmed to fit video selections.
- * Cutting and pasting of audio within and between clips.
- * Resampling of audio (rate, channels, sample size, signedness and endianness); audio is auto-resampled between clips.
- * Supports (auto)inserting of silence and deletion of audio sections.
- * Able to record from any external audio source.
- * Fade in/fade out feature for clips.
- * Audio speed and direction can be smoothly adjusted; both in real time and when rendering.
- Effects/Transitions
- * Many effects, including random/targeted zooming, panning of video, colour cycling and colorisation/colour filtering.
- * Merging/compositing of frames is possible: e.g. frame-in-frame, fade in/out and transparency.
- * Real time previews as the effect is processing.
- * Support for the Frei0r effect plugin architecture (via a wrapper) which will allow sharing of realtime effects with other applications.
- * Use real time effects to blend clips together, regardless of frame size or fps. Luma and chroma blending are currently supported.
- * Multiple real time effects are possible during playback (VJ mode), these can also be rendered to frames.
- * Effects and transitions are now fully customisable using the RFX builder window.
- * Effects/blends can also be applied to incoming streams in real time.
- * Dynamic loading of effects.
- Multitrack
- * Multitrack window with drag and drop
- * Intelligent screen organisation - shows you only the information which is relevant, no more and no less
- * Support for an almost limitless number of tracks and effects
- * Rapid rendering - resize/resample and effects apply done in a single pass
- * Tracks can be laid out entirely with keyboard, or with mouse, or a combination of both
- * Multitrack settings can be targetted for a specific encoder, or generic
- * Layouts can be saved and reloaded
- * Audio blocks can be timestretched and even reversed
- * Non-destructive editing, with multiple levels of undo/redo.
- * Full automation of effect parameters.
- * Any number of layers can be composited together into a single layer.
- Extras
- * Full crash recovery.
- * Configurable multi-monitor screen placement.
- * Simple and intuitive menu layout.
- * Remote monitoring of the application can be enabled
- * I18N text support. Translations into French, Czech, German, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese and Hungarian are included.
- * Support for audio output through jack.
- * Jack transport support (master or client)
- * Full integration with upcoming videojack standard (work in progress)
- * RFX builder allows rapid prototyping of new effects, transitions, generators, utilities and tools. Custom RFX scripts can be exported to share with others or downloaded and imported. Test scripts are run in a sandbox to allow safe testing of new plugins.
- * Midi sequence synchronisation (start/stop).
- * Can load single images or directories of images in numerical order and assemble them into videos or slideshows.
- * Ability to play music through xmms (including random selection of tracks).
- * Shuttle controls for firewire cameras/recorders. Can grab from DV and HDV formats.
- * Can stream out (on stdout) using yuv4mpeg format.
- * Project files (clips and layouts) can be exported and imported
- * Toys!
- * Plugins can be written in Perl, C, C++, python, or any other language, allowing O/S level access to individual frames within clips.
- GUI
- * Based on gtk+ 2.10+, runs under KDE, Gnome, Metacity, Fluxbox, Compiz and any known window manager.
- * Several built in themes/skins available (see screenshots). Custom themes will be supported soon.
- mailing list
- demos
- IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (#lives).
- Screenshots
- youtube
- Open Movie Editor
- a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims do be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use.
Clutter-free GUI, it has JACK audio support.
Can export the scenes to SMIL XML format (xml specification that you use to describe an audio/video montage), which you can Import into Kino.
It features Frei0r effects, amongst others, and has support for Titles.
It also includes a special Filter called "Node Compositor". This Filter is actually a tool to create totally new Effect Filters, by combining a large number of existing filters into new combinations. This concept is simple, yet powerful, and it is used by other Open Source Tools like Blender.
- even after 10 to 12 hours of constant video editing, OME is still a very stable piece of software.
- There are some really nice features in Open Movie Editor though. Audio automations are a breeze, the media browser window provides easy access to your video library and the list of render options is quite vast - dependent on FFMpeg, Libquicktime and other shared video libraries.
- Documentation
- Forums
- Mailinglist
- Freenode IRC Network
- username "oracle2025".
- #openmovieeditor
- Filter Effects
- tutorials
- youtube
- Cinelerra
- non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux.
- a complete audio and video authoring
tool. It understands a lot of multimedia formats
(quicktime, avi, ogg) and audio/video compression
codecs (divx, xvid, mpeg1/2, ...)
Open: .vob/.mpg/.avi*/m2v/.m1v/.mov/.mp2/.mp3/.wav/.ifo/.xml
Render(export): .avi/.ogg(theora/vorbis)/.mov/
Cinelerra can:
-capture in many formats and options from many sources(It's VERY difficult to configure them right)
-Many kinds of overlay video track: normal, addition, subtract, multiply, etc.
-Many kinds of effects and transitions
there is reasonably good documentation for cinelerra.
Not an easy program, but reasonably powerful. Recommended hardware specs are dual 2.4Ghz Opteron, 4GB RAM, 200 GB storage for movie files and Gigabit ethernet, but less should work, also.
This is the smp version of it, optimized for multiprocessor computers. It also wants a graphics card which understands openGL 2.0. Thanks to akirad, there are different versions installable.
- CV stands for Community Version.
- There is a "non-forking fork" (a branched version) developed by a Community (CV).
- Wiki
- Documentation
- Clips
- Transitions & Themes
- tutorials
- youtube
- Tools
- IMG2LIST - Cinelerra List Generator
- List Generator for converting an image sequence to a single list file.
- Seven Gnomes
- GTK2-based utility designed to simplify some tasks those useful when people work with Cinelerra.
- calls mpeg3toc to index MPEG1/2 files, mencoder to convert video, and uses GTK functions to create Cinelerra-format index/toc-files from the sequence of images.
- No open/save dialogs, just "drag-and-drop"
- exr2toc
- utility for generation of index TOC files from EXR image sequences.
- yuvmotionfps
- converts frame rates on progressive streams using the mjpegtools.
- calculates intermediates frames by interpolating the motion between frames, using an MPEG-style motion compensation algorithm.
- kdenlive
- intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor,
- extremely easy to use
- features
- * Support for a wide range of camcorders and cameras, including:
- 1. Low resolution camcorder (Raw and AVI DV editing).
- 2. Mpeg2, mpeg4 and h264 AVCHD (small cameras and camcorders).
- 3. High resolution camcorder files, including HDV and AVCHD camcorders.
- 4. Professional camcorders, including XDCAM-HD™ streams, IMX™ (D10) streams, DVCAM (D10) , DVCAM, DVCPRO™, DVCPRO50™ streams and DNxHD™ streams (decoding only, encoding untested). Please note that Kdenlive does not offer the original codecs, but only that we use FFmpeg free software codecs, which can read original streams and sometimes export as well. When you own a camcorder, there is no reason why you should not be able to read your own films.
- * Multitrack edition with a timeline and unlimited number of video and audio tracks.
- * Video and audio tracks organized in layers.
- * Tools to create, move, crop and delete video clips, audio clips, text clips and image clips.
- * Configurable keyboard shortcuts and interface layouts.
- * A wide range of effects and transitions. Ability to add custome effects and transitions.
- * Non-blocking rendering using a rendering separate application. Stop, pause and restart rendering. Continue to work on your project without any possible loss of data.
- * Export to standard formats:
- 1. DV (PAL and NTSC).
- 2. Mpeg2 (PAL, NTSC and HDV) and AVCHD (HDV).
- 3. High quality h264.
- 4. Non-destructive formats.
- * Mix different media without prior import:
- 1. Any Video, audio or image files supported by Kdenlive.
- 2. Custom profiles including resolutions, frame rates, PAR and DAR.
- * Support for a wide range of codecs and formats:
- 1. Mpeg2, mp4 and h264 video.
- 2. Mp2, mp3 and ac3 audio.
- 3. Lossless video (SNOW lossless codec, etc ...).
- 4. Free video (Ogg vorbis, etc ...).
- Intro
- User-manual
- Tutorials
- Forum
- Supported camcorders
- youtube
- de.wikibooks.org > Wiki > Kdenlive
- en.wikibooks.org > Wiki > Kdenlive > Quickstart
- vimeo.com > Kdenlive
- KDENLIVE Is a Promising Work in Progress
- Pitivi Video Editor
- ZS4
- Tutorials
- the new incarnation of Zwei-Stein Video Editor, is advanced
video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects.
- ZS4 Video Editor can be used like an object oriented photo-manipulation
program with a timeline: things that can be manipulated in a photo manipulation
program can be manipulated in ZS4 using parameters which alter over time.
- ZS4 Video Editor is worth using when...
- * the final output is a combination of more than 2 media sources rendered simultaneously. (like nine talking heads separately filmed, but later arranged in a 3x3 video wall combination)
- * every aspect of the compositing process needs to be 'tweened with an adjustable interpolation algorithm, from rotation angles to audio volume and chroma key sensitivity etc...
- * it becomes necessary to create custom effects and imaging processes by combining any number of effects using a highly flexible and infinitely variable toolbox of imaging "primitives".
- * the user likes to be limited by their own imagination instead of the software-makers ideas of the "desirable".
- Features
- Audio
- Effects
- Formats
- Docs
- Forum
- Blender Video Sequence Editor
- the sequence editor built into the blender3d application. Simple, but very powerful.
a complete, HD capable video editing system that allows you to combine multiple video channels and add effects to them. Even though it has a limited number of operations, you can use these to create powerful video edits. And, furthermore, it is extensible via a Plugin system
Blender's legacy Video Sequence Editor (VSE) operates on a set of entire strips at a time, as a chunk of footage. Load multiple video clips and lay them end-to-end (or in some cases, overlay them), inserting fades and transitions to link the end of one clip to the beginning of another. Finally, add an audio track so you can synchronize the timing of the video sequence to match it. The result of using the VSE is your finished movie.
It has a very cool feature called Meta Strip. That is, you can combine multiple strips to one. Suppose you make a video, with an intro, mainpart and end. Then you can make the intro, select all tracks, press "Strip -> Make Meta Strip", and your whole intro is combined into one clip.
see
wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Video_Sequence_Editing
or in the openartist-help : VID -> Blender Video Sequence Editor - in Blender Manual
- Tutorials
- youtube
- Blender Composite Editor
- node based postprocessing in blender. allows you to manipulate an image by routing it through a map of connected nodes. A starting image is routed through different nodes that do various things to the image, combined with other inputs or put back together, and finally output. Images can be split into their RGB components, combined (mixed) with other inputs, and layered on top of one another.
- A starting image can be:
- * blender inernal: taken directly from the active camera in a selected 3D scene
- * from a JPG, PNG, etc. file as a static picture,
- * a movie clip (such as an animation sequence or home movie), or
- * just a color.
- types of nodes
- * Input - Adds something to the node map, such as an image or a value.
- * Output - Displays the result in progress as a small image.
- * Color - Manipulates the colors of an image.
- * Vector - Manipulate the intensities and reflections of an image
- * Filters - Process the image to enhance it, working on adjacent pixels.
- * Convertors - Separate the image into its component video, or convert formats.
- * Mattes - Generating mattes to mask off areas of an image.
- * Distortion - Changing the shape of the image.
- * Groups - User-defined groups of nodes.
-
In addition, these nodes generate information that feeds other nodes.
- dvd / cd
- capture
- Camelot
- a simple webcam application, which reads video from a video4linux (1 or 2) device. The images can be filtered with gmerlin filter plugins. The result can be displayed and written to image files (manually or automatically). If you have video4linux1 support, you can also make the filtered stream available as another device (via vloopback. It emulates a webcam, which supports many more pixelformats than others, because it has the conversion power of gavl behind it.
- UCView
- UCView is an easy to use video capture and display program based on the unicap video imaging library.
- unicap provides a uniform interface to video capture devices. It allows applications to use any supported video capture device via a single API
- wxcam
- a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording (in an avi uncompressed and Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams, so you can also use the program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux 1 and 2 drivers, so it should work on a very large number of devices.
- 2D Animation
- Synfig Studio
- Pencil
- 2d prog for quick "animation/motion brainstorming"
- It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
- just draw 2 pics which symbol some motion and you
can do very quick anim tests, to get a feeling of the shot you plan
- User Manual
- Why?
- Forum
- Screenshots
- Gallery
- k-toon
- a 2D Animation Toolkit for animators, focused to the Cartoon Industry.
not the most functional piece of animation software there is yet, but it is excellent for simple animations. It has the beginnings of great tools for animation, such as the ability to create multiple brushes for complex animations, as well as the ability to create keyframes.
These serve as tools for not only organization, but also as a means to help out in the animation process.
Ktoon has a feature called "onion paper," in which the frame that is being modified can be transparent, allowing the animator to see the same general outline that the previous frame had, which in turn allows subtle changes between frames to be created with less time and effort. Most commands are easy to find and experiment with.
other users of the program have lost work due to program crashes. Save your work frequently. - KToon is a 2D Animation Toolkit for animators, focused to the Cartoon Industry.
- the project is not very active
- Wiki
- Mailinglists
- forum
- - Every time you create a project, you must to save it into the Repository path with a name ending with the ".ktn" extension. Ej: animation.ktn
- - KToon has no "auto-saving" option, so, you always have to save any project you start (from the menu "File" - "Save As").
- So far, unique the binary one that works of stable way is this:
- Screenshots
- KToon Interview
- linux.com > Feature > KToon: Simple 2D animation
- YouTube - Ktoon Video - DebianItalia.org
- Stopmotion
- Stopmotion is a free application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive, add sound effects and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.
- Documentation
- Screenshots
- manpage
- Papagayo
- Papagayo is a lip-syncing program designed to help you line up phonemes (mouth shapes) with the actual recorded sound of actors speaking. Papagayo makes it easy to lip sync animated characters by making the process very simple - just type in the words being spoken (or copy/paste them from the animation's script), then drag the words on top of the sound's waveform until they line up with the proper sounds.
- Discussion Forum
- Help
- AjaxAnimator (webbased)
- antimatter15.110mb.com > Ajaxanimator > Build
- A project of mine to build a fully standards-based, online, collaborative, web-based animation suite. Its original goal was to be a usable Flash IDE alternative, but has evolved into a cross-platform/cross-format animation tool, primed to support Animated GIFs, SWF (Flash), SVG Animations,
- It is currently built using Javascript and PHP.
- latest alpha
- Forum
- tools
- IMG2LIST
- Importing images sequences into Cinelerra is done via list files.
- IMG2LIST generates a list given a frame of an images sequence
- autodetects all related parameters with it, including
number of frames, file format and image resolution.
- How to install IMG2LIST
- working download
- Seven Gnomes
- yuvmotionfps
- Frame Rate Conversion with motion estimation
- converts frame rates on progressive streams.
- calculates intermediates frames by interpolating
the motion between frames, using an MPEG-style
motion compensation algorithm.
- framerate
- David McNab wrote a little utility called framerate to convert a video to same or different format with different framerate, with motion interpolation, using the yuvmotionfps and ffmpeg utilities. framerate is pretty simple. It eliminates the need for typing manual commands and creating huge yuv files on your disk. Its input and/or output can be piped.
- Exr2Toc
- Exr2Toc application is the utility for Cinelerra non-linear video editing program. We wrote Exr2Toc for our needs to simplify creation of the TOC index files from EXR image sequences for cinelerra application.
- Gmerlin KBD
- A GUI tool to a keyboard daemon. lets you configure the keys of multimedia keyboards which are mostly unused in linux. Can bind arbitrary shell commands to multimedia keys.
- Gmerlin plugins configurator
- Configure gmerlin plugins for programs which can't do this themselves
- Gmerlin transcoder
- ubuntu studio controls
- a small app that provides users access to
- commonly hand-edited settings on an A/V production system.
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/JackQuickStart
- Audio applications may need priority access to memory to work properly, therefor enable memlock and set it to 76%. This is just a rule of thumb and will keep Ardour from complaining.
- Ubuntu Studio Controls also includes a checkbox to enable firewire audio devices, it's the checkbox labled 'Enable raw 1394'.
- Gmerlin player
- a mediaplayer using the gmerlin media framework
- gxine
- one of many user interfaces of the xine engine.
- runs a lot of media formats like CDs, DVDs and videos without problem and even the Windows media formats are supported rather good.
- xine
- a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too.
- Mplayer movie player
- mediainfo
- Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
- supports:
- * Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
- (Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)
- * Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
- * Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...
- sadly, the commandline switches do not work.
- avnapitc
- a simple GUI that analyzes file type AVI, ASF / WMV, MP4/MOV, Matroska (MKV), OGG, GMOs and FLV, and shows a lot of information on the technical characteristics (useful in predicting whether the movie will be read by their player stand-alone). It also allows you to make simple changes on the fly, set delays (or advance) on all audio tracks and edit the FourCC allows you to remove any trace in the files (video, audio, subtitles, attachments);
- videohelp.com > Tools > Avinaptic
- manual
- djv imaging
- Professional movie playback and image processing software for the film and computer animation industries
- Features:
- * OpenGL hardware-accelerated image processing.
- * Support for floating-point and extended range images.
- * Industry standard file formats including Kodak Cineon, SMPTE Digital Picture Exchange (DPX), Industrial Light & Magic OpenEXR, and Apple QuickTime.
- * Movies may be played back from system memory or streamed directly from disk.
- * Command line utilities for batch image processing.
- * Cross-platform support with versions available for Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, SGI IRIX, and Sun Solaris.
- Screenshots
- Documentation
- Avidemux
- HandBrake
- converts video from nearly any format to a handful of modern ones
- HandBrake's traditional form of input is DVDs that you have stored as VIDEO_TS folders or .iso images on your hard drive, or right from your computer's optical drive.
- new version can handle files, too.
- About HandBrake
- Handbrake 0.9.3 will no longer natively rip DVDs.
- you have to have libdvdcss from vlc project installed.
- is not a ripper. It converts video, it does not rip it byte by byte. It does not crack the latest DVD copy protection schemes hatched by the studios.
- Features
- will accept practically any type of video as a source, through ffmpeg
- integrates the latest improvements to the H.264 encoding library. Picture quality has enhanced dramatically through the use of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization, and there have been significant speed optimizations.
- offers total control over multiple audio tracks.
- Queued jobs are cached to disk for safekeeping between sessions.
- presets
- AppleTV preset is slower because it is now quality based, and produces much more efficient output. The Normal preset uses psychovisual rate distortion. The High Profile presets use psychovisual trellising. All of these setting changes can influence encoding time and output file size.
- Audio-video synchronization
- keep lip-synch as well as a DVD player can.
- offers a decomb filter, in the style of AviSynth's. It is a deinterlacer that can be left on all the time without degrading picture quality, because it only deinterlaces video when it visibly needs to be.
- Multi-threaded deinterlacing
- passes through the exact video framerate of the source instead of smoothing to a constant rate
- Theora video encoding
- Variable frame rate encoding with detelecine filtering
- MP4 optimization for progressive web downloads
- Dynamic range compression for encoding from AC3 audio
- to decrypt DVDs
- If you're on Linux, all you have to do is install
- VLC's copy of libdvdcss your system
- Documentation
- Tutorials
- FAQ
- Blog
- Forum
- IRC Server: chat.freenode.net
- #handbrake and #handbrake-dev
- youtube
- VLC media Converter
-
vlc can convert many formats.
- open up VLC.
- click Media -> Convert/Save. this is a OPEN dialog. select your file. (its best to copy the filename here, this saves some work)
- click Convert / Save. Now a dialog opens where you can select your desired fileformat.
- @ Outputs, check File & enter (paste) the filename
- @ Profile select your desired settins & click save.
- mkvmerge GUI
- a GUI frontend to mkvmerge.
mkvmerge - gui creates Matroska files from various other formats.
Matroska is aiming to become the standard of Multimedia Container
Formats. It is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a
kind of binary version of XML. - Guide
- ekd (well, its french..)
- EKD is a little application to make sequence editing of animated files,
make treatement by pictures pack (with filters applications for exam‐
ple) and many others things on the Linux operating system.
- a free software for post-production of videos and images
- batch processing.
- encoding of animations to the formats avi raw, divx4, motion JPEG, mpeg1, mpeg2, wmv2, xvid, Macromedia Video Flash, h264 mpeg4 and ogg will theora.
- Filters (for the vidéos): Levels of Gray, Holds for subtitles (Expand), Flou box (Boxblur), Noise, Découper (Crop), Luminosité/Contraste, Mirroir and Couleur/Saturation (Hoots).
- A small very basic module for video sequencing, making the transitions between several videos,altering the start times of videos audio, cutting a video.
- separate the video track and the audio track
- conversion of a batch of image into video (with amongst other things the possibility of regulating the number of images a second).
- conversion of a video into a batch of images.
- Change of the number of images a second.
- Questions (FAQ)
- EKD on LINUX
- EKD, image post-production and easy video
- documentation
- teachwares.
- Tutoriels Ekd on the lprod.org site
- EKD: version SVN
- manpages.ubuntu.com > Manpages > Hardy > En > Man1 > Avidemux
- SMPlayer
- SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.
- Forum
- Wiki
- it remembers the settings of all files you play.
- audio track, subtitles, volume...
- can resume playback at the exact point you stopped it, even after you restart the program.
- you can change all the keyboard and mouse shortcuts.
- if you have a mouse wheel, you can use it to go forward and backward in a movie, or as a volume control, or to change the zoom factor, or even to speed up or slow down playback. There are more than 150 possible keyboard shortcuts you can assign.
- directly specify MPlayer options
- onscreen equalizers
- is no performance hog
- SMPlayer: A high quality wrapper
- SMPlayer - Nice Frontend for MPlayer
- Screenshots
- manpage
- VLC media player
- VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet. Convert media files, Rip DVDs, a real swissarmy knife.
- 0.9 branch
- interface now based on qt4
- - supports new variants of Flash-Videos
- supports BBC-Codec Dirac, Atrac3, H.264 PAFF, APE Audio, RealVideo, VC-3, Fraps
- better support of Webcams and DVB-interfaces
- support for Replay Gain
- more Audio- Videofilters
- What is cool in 0.9
- Overview
- Features
- Wiki
- forum
- Streaming
- Screenshots
- manpage
- flashplayer standalone
- a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player
