Cinelerra
Sign in to savethumb|400px|Cinelerra 2.1 being used to edit footage in a video project Cinelerra is a video editing and track-based digital compositing program (an NLE, Non-Linear Editor) designed for Linux. It is a free software distributed under the open source GNU General Public License. In addition to editing, it supports advanced composition operations such as keying and mattes, including a title generator, many effects to edit video and audio, keyframe automation, and many other professional functions depending on the variant. It processes audio in 64 floating-point form. Video is processed in RGBA or
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- Software.name
- Cinelerra-GG Infinity
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- Software.author
- Adam Williams
- Software.developer
- Cinelerra-GG community
- Software.latest_release_version
- 2025-12
- Software.operating_system
- Linux
- Software.programming language
- C++
- Software.genre
- Video editing software
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-or-later, external plug-ins may differ
- Software.caption
- Cinelerra-GG Infinity
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Interface
- Usage and awards
- Cinelerra.org
- Variants
- Cinelerra-HV
- Cinelerra-CV / Cinelerra-CVE
- Lumiera
- Cinelerra-GG Infinity
- History of Cinelerra versions
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|400px|Cinelerra 2.1 being used to edit footage in a video project Cinelerra is a video editing and track-based digital compositing program (an NLE, Non-Linear Editor) designed for Linux. It is a free software distributed under the open source GNU General Public License. In addition to editing, it supports advanced composition operations such as keying and mattes, including a title generator, many effects to edit video and audio, keyframe automation, and many other professional functions depending on the variant. It processes audio in 64 floating-point form. Video is processed in RGBA or YUVA color spaces, in 16-bit integer or floating-point form. It is resolution and image refresh rate independent. The HV & GG variants support up to 8K video. The GG variant can also create DVDs and Blu-rays.
==History== In 1996 Adam Williams of Heroine Virtual, lead developer of Cinelerra, released a Unix audio editor called Broadcast 1.0 which could handle 2G audio files. In 1997 Broadcast 2.0 was released, still audio only but unlimited tracks. 1999 saw Broadcast2000, which included video. Around 2001 Broadcast 2000 supported MPEG-2, VOB and Quicktimemovies. See the History of Cinelerra versions section for more detail.