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Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE 1394 for Chapter 6, Capturing DV , VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV, AVI, and Quicktime formats.
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Kino does not directly edit any video encodings other than DV. |
You can load or import (requires ffmpeg ) multiple DV clips and edit them non-destructively using a variety of techniques including simple split, join, cut-and-paste, and drag-and-drop operations. Then, you can save the project to a SMIL XML document. Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi commands (Chapter 13, Keyboard Shortcut Reference). Also, Kino can export (Chapter 10, Export) the project in a number of formats:
DV over IEEE 1394
Raw DV, DV AVI
Quicktime DV (requires libquicktime or Quicktime 4 Linux )
still frames: PPM, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, TGA, and whatever other gdk-pixbuf modules are on your system
WAV
MP3 (requires lame )
Ogg Vorbis (requires oggenc )
Ogg Theora (requires ffmpeg2theora )
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (requires mjpegtools 1.6 or 1.8 )
DVD Video authoring (requires dvdauthor )
MPEG-4, H.264, and Flash Video (requires ffmpeg )
or anything that can read Raw DV from a pipe (e.g. ffmpeg) through user-extensible scripts
The FX mode (Chapter 9, FX) provides some basic audio and video effects such as filters and transitions for audio and video. It also provides extensibility through a plugin API. At the time of this writing, all plugins have been incorprated into the Kino releases except for Ruslan Popov's plugiins .
Kino does not offer multi-track capabilities through a timeline user interface, but do not let that discourage you. Many things that would require a multi-track timeline can be accomplished with more planning and manual operations. Some of the builtin effects include:
color video generator
gradient video generator
generate video from stills
video noise generator
audio gain envelope
audio dub
audio mix from WAV (or any format supported by ffmpeg )
audio fade in or out
audio cross-fade transition
monochrome
sepia
inverse
blur
soften
flip
mirror image
kaleidoscope
key-framable pan and zoom
gamma
charcoal
titler (using Pango ) with motion and fading
superimpose stills with motion and fading
key-framable compositing transition (e.g., fly-in)
numerous and user-extensible wipe transitions
rudimentary (blue or green) color key
dissolve wipe
fade to/from color