cinema - the little world of self-made films .
Despite its clear design, the program is to operate in some places but not exactly intuitive. Want to add together, for example, several small movies, so you download first to "open" the first file. Is it not a "DV" file, so it will be imported in this format (which can take quite a long time). The following files are now loaded but about "scene before / after insert. In the Edit menu, you always see the complete work, when you see the "cut" only the individual scenes. This you can in the "Story Board" (left) select. The "cut" menu is for instance a scene to be divided again. To do this you highlighting a section and select "split scene." The storyboard now appear both scenes.
under "FX" you can create effects and transitions. To do this you take away the start and end time (or frame) next to "Override" field. Now you choose for audio and video, the type of effect. For easy transition, for example, pays for audio "fading" and video "Aperture." "Start editing" A click on a new transitional scene created in the storyboard.
The menu item "Export generated video files in various formats. If the movie to a DVD, so is under the tab "MPEG" file format "8-DVD".
Now a couple of experiences:
cinema
always a terminal with the kill command, because I find many times had that the program crashed in the way that the computer was overloaded and unresponsive to input. It takes but a moment. It recognizes the fact that the program stops responding and increases the hard drive activity. Then there is time to run the kill command.
Not suitable for importing AVI files with AC3 audio encoding. After importing the wrong Synkronisation of audio and video do not coincide. AVI files on the best "ffmpeg-i file.avi-pal-dvd format outputfile.mpg" prepare.