Hello everyone, To introduce myself, I'm a newbie on Cinelerra and NLE, and I have a lot to learn and ask about. I started out my video recording hobby in the early nineties with a Hi8 Sony camcorder (prosumer level at that time), and now I have a lot of analog Hi8 PAL video tapes to convert to and backup as digital video.
I also bought and tried some analog video editing equipments inluding a videomixer/TBC and video processor added some PC software tools. Beside that I proveded a proprierity Pinnacle DV500/DVD capture card and software which was for Windows-only. The latest years my interest lays on Linux, and I'm now ready to start a serious attempt with video capturing and editing using Linux and Cinelerra. As I also have jumped over the whole DV camcording generation, I'm now also faced to jump directly to provide a new HDV camcorder. After this intro, now to Cinelerra on openSUSE 10.2, which is the Linux distro and current release I'm using. I'll also follow up shortly with a couple of other topics related to the above. According to the new Cinelerra CV Manual section 2.13 http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs/split_manual_en/cinelerra_cv_manual_en_2.html#SEC24 RPMs for SuSE 9 are built from CVS by Kevin Brosius, and hosted at http://cin.kevb.net/files/RPM/SUSE92/cinelerra-2.1.CV.svn.cobra-20060918.i686.rpm While this may be the current Cinelerra release, the Suse 9.x release is several years outdated. As I couldn't find a Cinelerra rpm for openSUSE 10.2 yet, I've installed a build for openSUSE 10.1 at Packman: cinelerra-2.1.cv958-0.pm.1.i586.rpm http://packman.links2linux.org/package/cinelerra/ Also Mike Petersen has Cinelerra among Custom Built RPMs for SLED 10 http://www.pcc-services.com/sled10_rpms.html http://files.pcc-services.com/files/RPMS/cinelerra-2.1.cv958-SLED.v2.i586.rpm During my installation Cinelerra became integrated in the Gnome Program>Multimedia menu and can be launched apparantly ok. My first thought as a quick, simple test, was to load and play a couple of video files in the Cinelerra viewer. >From the web I had downloaded a couple of video testfiles recorded with the new Sony HDR-FX7 camcorder. But I didn't find out how to load these video fiels into the viewer window nor the Recourses window, and I tried the Program window File>Load files instead. The first file fx7.m2t was reported wasn't recognized by Cinelerra, the second file fx7.mpg was apparantly loaded, I think. 1) How does one load video files from the file system into to Viewer window to play them? 2) Regarding m2t the web site explained: These files are raw HDV files in m2t format. Some NLE systems will allow you to drop m2t files directly on the timeline; others won't. Is cinelerra able to work with m2t files, or can they be converted first with some tool? Thanks, Terje J. Hanssen _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
