Hi Ivan! > I hope this is the right place to post questions. This is the right place to post questions. Especially if they concern Cinelerra. :-)
Frankly, I don't think Cinelerra editing workflow can compete with the FC or Premiere ones. It's not that I don't love her, it's just that she needs a shrink! :-) She is a demanding software that will make you happy only if you act following her logic. > - In FCP and premiere I'm used to the drag and drop editing. In > cinelerra you can do it, but when dragging a file in front of another > one that's already in the timeline, there's no way it can push it > forward and place the track before it, it just overlap the current > track. When you drag and drop on an empty track you can reposition edits where you want. When you drag and drop on a track with other edits, your new edit will be dropped 'magnetically' or not depending on the symbols that appear in the white outline of the edit. The Manual speaks better than me: http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs/cinelerra_cv_manual_en.html#SEC108 Usually inserting an edit makes the following edits shifting right. Moving edits never creates new tracks or move old ones. > - Another option I'm missing and don't know if it's there, is the > ability to link/unlink a video and a audio clip (not the whole video > and track, just a clip on it) on the timeline. Imagine that I want to > use video from a source and the audio from another one, not the real > audio from the video file. Once you get it lip-synced I don't see a > way to link both and move them via drag and drop together in the > timeline. No, unfortunately there is not the possibility to link audio and video clips (and effects). :-/ But "Cinelerra recognises as a group the edits of different armed tracks that have aligned beginnings, regardless of whether they have the same source or aligned ends". To make sure they have aligned beginnings you may have to zoom in time (arrow down). This way you can move them via drag and drop together in the timeline. > - Is there an option to select as premiere does? I mean the selection > tools: Range select, Block select, Track Select, multitrack select. I > know I can select and move the selection on the timeline, but it moves > just the selection, no the whole track(s). So if you select in the > middle of a track it'll move this selection. Which it's the intended > behavior but maybe I'm just not used to it ;) You can select regions on armed tracks by: - double clicking over an edit - setting in/out points - double clicking between labels (on the timebar) - dragging over an edit (in cut and paste mode only) - select all (Edit menu). You can edit the selection with the Edit Menu: Cut will move following edits, Mute won't. Copy will leave the edit, Copy and Mute will make it blank. Paste will move the following edits, Paste over a selected area will overwrite. To make the whole armed track(s) shift right you can use Paste Silence. Don't ask for splitting an edit in two: you can't. Main workarounds for that are using two separate tracks or deleting a frame. You can find help in the Manual. The basic workflow is not well documented (yet), but this is the best Manual we have. :-) Good luck! Raffaella _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
