Hello all, I have been using pitivi for several years and I've finally reached my limit with the number of things that just won't work unless you hold your mouth just right.
I use linux and typically record my desktop with a command like this: ffmpeg -y -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1354x768 -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_ultrafast -crf 22 -acodec libmp3lame -ar 44100 -ab 126k -threads 3 output_file I've found the resulting file imports into just about anything, that is until I met Cinelerra. It just won't import. I tried recording the desktop with cinelerra, but it locks my computer up even though there's plenty of ram and the CPU isn't spiking. When I'm finally able to stop the recording it says it's several thousand frames behind, and that's with about 30 seconds of video. I found this page that has an example of how to ffmpeg convert video for import into cinelerra: http://www.calcmaster.net/cinelerra/forgotten-guide/03-import-videos.php Here's the ffmpeg command: ffmpeg -i *infile.avi* -acodec libfaac -ab 384k -ar 44100 -vcodec libx264 -vpre ultrafast -crf 0.01 -f psp *outfile.mp4* It does import the video and a big plus, the sound actually works. But I've found that the video is not only color-shifted (looks like it's white-washed, except it's with grey), but it's also "slanted" as if it's putting fewer bits across the view screen than the viewscreen has, so it pulls a couple off the next line to fill in the end, all the way down the screen. I modified the command to get rid of the ultrafast and it got rid of the slant, but I haven't been able to fix the colors: *ffmpeg -i **infile.avi** -acodec libfaac -ab 384k -ar 44100 -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -crf 0.01 -f psp **outfile.mp4* Suggestions? - Thanks!
