Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

1.1. Developers
1.2. Website Links

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.

[Note] Note

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:

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: