xxxxx workshop_22 Berlin: free software video editing with Cinelerra August 18, 2007

18th August 2PM: Free software video editing with Cinelerra and Florian Cramer

Cinelerra is _the_ program for semi-professional and professional video editing and compositing on Linux. Thanks to many years of development and a substantially improved community version , it has matured into a free alternative to such proprietary heavyweights such as Final Cut, Premiere and Avid Express. It is also interesting as a free (as in speech and beer) upgrade to iMovie-style, artistically limited video editing programs.

On top of non-linear, non-destructive, multi-track, resolution-independent editing of SD and HD formats and keyframed
parameters and effects, it integrates a compositing engine with virtual "cameras" and "projectors" and can use spare additional computers as a "render farm". Seamlessly integrating multitrack-layering and compositing into its editor, Cinelerra lends itself particularly to artistic/experimental video work.

Caveats: Cinelerra is overkill for simple trimming/adjustment of video files or camera recordings. (avidemux, Kino, and kdenlive are more suitable free software solutions for this task and will be briefly covered in the workshop.) It is also a bottomless pit of resource hungriness. Your PC or laptop should have at least 1 GB RAM, a Pentium M/Centrino with at least 1.5 GHz, Athlon 64 or PowerPC G5 with at least 2 GHz, Pentium 4 with at least 3 GHz; Core Duo or Athlon 64 X2 CPUs are preferable.

The workshop is open to people who are curious about Cinelerra and just want to listen. Active participants however are expected to be Linux-savvy and have a CPU-optimized version of Cinelerra-CV up and running on their computer. (For Debian, the packages from http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/ are recommended, http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/pentiumm/ for PCs with Intel Centrino and Core Duo; in Gentoo, run "emerge cinelerra-cvs"; for other distributions see http://cvs.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php.) In order not to get delayed and sidetracked, there will be no installation support in the workshop.

Further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/cinelerra [overview],

http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs.php [Cinelerra manual]

http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/ [Open Source video project of the Brussels-based artist project Constant, with various resources on Cinelerra].

Course fee: 10 euros

Please RSVP [email protected] to reserve places
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Background:

Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and reception, and electromysticism. Workshops solely utilise free software and GNU toolbase.

Practitioners include Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com), Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Fredrik Olofsson (http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), superfactory
(http://superfactory.biz), Florian Cramer (http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell

Please RSVP [email protected] to reserve any places or register
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