NEWS
News from all over the world about video post production.
October News – Scaling for any monitor to include 4K HiDPI now available
To change to larger fonts, menus, and icons use Scaling Layout in Settings->Preferences, Appearance tab. Dav1d aom decoder library is now at version 0.5.0 and has several speedups. There are 25 new Shape Wipe video transitions available to include Diagonals,...
September News – this month’s release includes about 20 small bug fixes
Crop & Position plugin has been added with easy to use slider bars and reset and clear buttons. It is based on percentage instead of pixels to provide versatility for use with proxy. Usage is self-explanatory. Libx265 thirdparty package for static builds has been...
August News – FFmpeg in use with Cinelerra is now version 4.2
Also, lipvpx has been upgraded to version 1.8.1. A faster decoder for AV1 media, Dav1d, is now the default instead of libAOM. Mask feathering is now improved for better performance and to look the same with OpenGL as X11.
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K available
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Product Introduction Many filmmakers are familiar with Blackmagic Design. Especially the video editing software DaVinci Resolve and in particular the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K caused a hype. Last year, the Blackmagic Pocket...
Blender 3D 2.80 News
The Blender 2.80 - 3D Renderer with a clear user interface The Blender 2.80 offers useful functions like shaders for fire, smoke and hair as well as real-time rendering. The most striking new feature of Blender 3D is the new user interface; both the introduction and...
July News – final Masking improvements are now complete
The current operational characteristics of Masking are temporarily documented at: https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/Mask_changes.pdf Some of the latest Mask changes are listed here next: - Six more buttons in the Mask Points section for Point, Curve, or All...
June news – even more Masking enhancements have been added
Hardware acceleration encoding using Nvenc for Nvidia boards is now available when rendering using h264 or h265. The Nvidia version must be at 390.25 or newer. Additional masking improvements have been added to include displaying the video track being worked, solo a...
May News – OpenGL for masking has been upgraded from 1.x to 4.3
Several changes have been made to Masking in the Compositor and the GUI layout has been modified. Changes include:- addition of Rotate and Scale around a focus point with X,Y values defined - you can use Names for the mask 0-7 numbers, up to 8 standard characters-...
April news – the latest builds need libva/libvdpau system-installed
Website now includes a French translation, courtesy Olivier Humbert, in addition to Italian and German. There has been interest at https://librazik.tuxfamily.org, the LibraZiK digital audio-software music studio, in using CinelerraGG. Usage of the graphics board GPU...
AV Linux 2019.4.10 has been released
The Debian Stretch based AV Linux operating system, optimized for audio and video production, brings some new improvements and updates. It will be the last 32bit version and will only be available for 64bit in the future. Here is the direct excerpt from the AV Linux...