[CinCVS] How to Add Title Screens?
I am a complete newbie at video editing but have managed to patch some clips together. I would like them to start following several seconds of a title screen. I have read the title section in the manual and found the title icon in Cinelerra:Resources/video effects but the mechanics of using this escape me. I read the HOWTO: Professional-Looking Scrolled Credits in Cinelerra and eventually produced a png file which I can load into Resources and then move to the viewer where it is displayed as white text on a black background. If I try to put this in a video track I just get a vertical bar. My problem is certainly elementary and probably has been covered many times. If someone would point me toward an appropriate reference I would greatly appreciate it. Tom George ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
Re: [CinCVS] How to Add Title Screens?
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:23:03 +0100, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a complete newbie at video editing but have managed to patch some clips together. I would like them to start following several seconds of a title screen. I have read the title section in the manual and found the title icon in Cinelerra:Resources/video effects but the mechanics of using this escape me. I read the HOWTO: Professional-Looking Scrolled Credits in Cinelerra and eventually produced a png file which I can load into Resources and then move to the viewer where it is displayed as white text on a black background. If I try to put this in a video track I just get a vertical bar. My problem is certainly elementary and probably has been covered many times. If someone would point me toward an appropriate reference I would greatly appreciate it. By default, a still image is treated just like a video frame. That is, it will be take up the same interval as one single video frame on the timeline, typically 1/25 second or 1/30 second. Since still images don't have a native duration, it is perfectly OK to extend their duration by dragging the end of the vertical bar you see on the timeline. You may have to zoom the timeline view until the bar gets a few pixels wide. The view controls are at the bottom of the timeline window. Variations of the question above come up from time to time. Are there some hints that the GUI could give new users to make this more discoverable? (apart from a wizard telling You just loaded a single image to the timeline. *sneer*) -- Herman Robak ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
[CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark
Hello Cinelerra people, Today I tried to render out a movie I made with Cinelerra revision 1045 via a YUV4MPEG stream. However, the resulting video seems to be too dark compared to the video in the compositor. I turned on Use Pipe and used mencoder with the following commands: mencoder - -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=3000 -o % mencoder - -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:vbitrate=3000 -o % I also tried x264 and MJPEG with ffmpeg and they have the same problem. I think the problem lies with the YUV4MPEG stream that Cinelerra generates, because no matter what the codec or the encoding program is, the video is always too dark. Any suggestions? Or maybe this is a bug? Bas Alphenaar ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
Re: [CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark
Bas, Try adding the RGB - 601 filter to your video track(s). Configure the filter for RGB - 601 compression (the default). Does that make it work? Craig. Bas Alphenaar wrote: Hello Cinelerra people, Today I tried to render out a movie I made with Cinelerra revision 1045 via a YUV4MPEG stream. However, the resulting video seems to be too dark compared to the video in the compositor. I turned on Use Pipe and used mencoder with the following commands: mencoder - -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=3000 -o % mencoder - -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:vbitrate=3000 -o % I also tried x264 and MJPEG with ffmpeg and they have the same problem. I think the problem lies with the YUV4MPEG stream that Cinelerra generates, because no matter what the codec or the encoding program is, the video is always too dark. Any suggestions? Or maybe this is a bug? Bas Alphenaar ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
Re: [CinCVS] YUV4MPEG stream too dark
Thank you, it worked! Craig Lawson wrote: Bas, Try adding the RGB - 601 filter to your video track(s). Configure the filter for RGB - 601 compression (the default). Does that make it work? Craig. Bas Alphenaar wrote: Hello Cinelerra people, Today I tried to render out a movie I made with Cinelerra revision 1045 via a YUV4MPEG stream. However, the resulting video seems to be too dark compared to the video in the compositor. I turned on Use Pipe and used mencoder with the following commands: mencoder - -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=3000 -o % mencoder - -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:vbitrate=3000 -o % I also tried x264 and MJPEG with ffmpeg and they have the same problem. I think the problem lies with the YUV4MPEG stream that Cinelerra generates, because no matter what the codec or the encoding program is, the video is always too dark. Any suggestions? Or maybe this is a bug? Bas Alphenaar ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
