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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

Key facts

Software.name
Cinelerra-GG Infinity
Software.logo
85px
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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There is a build of ffmpeg for use with the command line output. This should be put in your system path if it's desired. For GPU acceleration, it needs the proprietary Nvidia X11 drivers & CUDA libraries. Run ./configure. Then run make. Then run 'make install' to put it in the bin/ directory. Run ./cinelerra.sh in the bin/ directory.

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inception
2002-08-12
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Cinelerra
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14 sections
Contents
  • 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.

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