Re: [CinCVS] titler fade out flicker

2006-07-02 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Joe, > After adding a second video track and replacing the flickering titles > with new ones, the problem still persists. I've noticed something similar in the past... in my case it was due to extra keyframes along the plugin. Have you enabled "View -> Plugin Keyframes" to check? Alec _

Re: [CinCVS] Message "No accelerated IMDCT transform found"

2006-06-22 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Nicolas, > No accelerated IMDCT transform found You need to compile a52dec with djbfft: http://cr.yp.to/djbfft/install.html Or you can get a binary from (converts to deb nicely with alien): ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/livna/fedora/5/i386/djbfft-0.76-5.lvn5.i386.rpm Then you just compile a52d

Re: [CinCVS] Mpeg rendering w/mpeg2enc - NTSC

2006-06-09 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Kevin, > ...get an error from mpeg2enc about the 'Picture rate' ... >INFO: [yuvcorrect] input: frame rate: 6/1001 fps (~59.940060) It looks like your project is set to double NTSC frame rate. If you are preserving the original DV fields, then this should be 29.97 (Format - Frame R

Re: [CinCVS] [Bug 231] Interlacing mode unknown in batch rendering

2006-06-08 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, > http://bugs.cinelerra.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231 > Can you please close this bug if it is now fixed (as a result of commit r830) This latest patch crashes cinelerra when I try to load an existing xml (see trace below). The same file worked with r829. It also doesn't fix the original problem.

Re: [CinCVS] Questions from Cinelerra "Newbie"

2006-05-30 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, > 1. What is the best (least lossy) output format... > 2. Is there a way to get Cinelerra to render using ffmpeg... yuv4mpeg seems to be a favorite. You can pipe it to other programs like ffmpeg or x264. > ... So far none of the output formats that I've been able > to find in Cinelerra are

[CinCVS] panning stabilization

2006-05-30 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, Is it possible to stabilize panning footage? My skiing footage has either pans of mountains in the background, or skiers moving in the foreground. As the camcorder is handheld, there are jumps and shakes that make some of the footage quite shaky. I've tried the motion plugin, but it seems to

Re: [CinCVS] exporting a 720x320 project to quicktime/dv/twos

2006-05-29 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Dan, > I'd just use masks to crop the top and bottom out, have you tried using > masks (the "Edit Mask" button on the left side of the compositor window)? Originally that's what I was doing, but found that adjusting the viewport was more convenient. Turns out that the yuv4mpeg approach is pre

Re: [CinCVS] exporting a 720x320 project to quicktime/dv/twos

2006-05-29 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Andraz, > > 720x320 frame. When I render this to a quicktime/dv/twos file the > > video fills the top 320 lines and the bottom 160 are green. > > DV does not support any other resolution but 720x576 and 720x480 which > are PAL and NTSC. This is not a problem of cinelerra - except that a > chec

[CinCVS] exporting a 720x320 project to quicktime/dv/twos

2006-05-28 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, I crop the top and bottom 80 lines from my ntsc-dv source to make a 720x320 frame. When I render this to a quicktime/dv/twos file the video fills the top 320 lines and the bottom 160 are green. Is there any way to (a) center the video so that there's 80 lines of padding top and bottom and (b

Re: [CinCVS] Cinelerra Question

2006-05-28 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Daniel, > I found cinelerra a few day's ago in the Internet, but i have the > problem, that i can't install it, because it need's the libx264.so.45. There was a thread last month on this same thing: https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/cinelerra/2006-April/006164.html I imagine t

Re: [CinCVS] Re: projector y motion with interlaced dv footage

2006-05-27 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Hermann, > ... you render your footage with fields to frames effect to an intermediate > movie clip with doubled frame rate. Then you apply your pan/mask ... Is there any way to apply the camera (not projector as I first wrote) automation after the "frames to fields" effect? Sort of the oppo

Re: [CinCVS] [Bug 264] svn build 799 won't compile

2006-05-25 Thread Alec Robertson
> I'd like to fix this, but I don't know how to check for the correct version > of > freetype2. On my Suse 9.3 I have this in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc, > which is freetype 2.1.9: On Debian unstable with version 2.2.1, my freetype2.pc is: prefix=/usr exec_prefix=${prefix} lib

[CinCVS] projector y motion with interlaced dv footage

2006-05-23 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, I have NTSC DV footage for which I mask/crop the top and bottom 80 pixels so that I can use the projector y-motion to center the subject vertically in the frame. It also gives it that cool widescreen look :) But, I noticed that when I then do a frames to fields that the interlacing order chan

Re: [CinCVS] Failed to build SVN revision 794

2006-05-21 Thread Alec Robertson
I'm using the latest debian, but have noticed a significant decrease in font quality for freetype > 2.1.10 so I am pegged to this version until I figure out what is wrong. Would it be possible to have cinelerra support both 2.1* and 2.2* versions of freetype2? At the moment I've commented out the a

Re: [CinCVS] problem with libx264.so.45

2006-04-23 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Chris, > I managed to install the shared libraries in /usr/local/lib (I did a > symbolic link between so.46 and so.46) but at this time cinelerra don't > recognize it. A "sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib" should fix that. > and I can't install package libxxf86vm-dev because I have dependencies

Re: [CinCVS] problem with libx264.so.45

2006-04-22 Thread Alec Robertson
> Alec as you said I have downloaded the last source of x264 and then I make > ./configure > make > make install but the installers put libx264.a in > /usr/local/lib but no trace of any libx264.so or libx264.so.45 > I'm a linux'beginners and I d'ont know how could I transform > libx264.a=>libx264

Re: [CinCVS] problem with libx264.so.45

2006-04-22 Thread Alec Robertson
> I have already tried this and nothing better. I have too tried to > install x264 from source from here : > http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html > but nothing more. On my system, the latest svn x264 is libx264.so.46, I encountered the same problem last week when it upgraded from 45. I use s

Re: [CinCVS] yuv4mpeg stream aspect ratio incorrectly set?

2006-03-17 Thread Alec Robertson
> I've been rendering into yuv4mpeg format and have noticed that the > aspect ratio header in the output yuv file is not properly set. My > original project is ntsc-dv in a quicktime-for-linux container with a > 4:3 aspect ratio. When I render to yuv4mpeg then do: > cat mymovie.yuv | head -n 1

[CinCVS] yuv4mpeg stream aspect ratio incorrectly set?

2006-03-16 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, I've been rendering into yuv4mpeg format and have noticed that the aspect ratio header in the output yuv file is not properly set. My original project is ntsc-dv in a quicktime-for-linux container with a 4:3 aspect ratio. When I render to yuv4mpeg then do: cat mymovie.yuv | head -n 1 it

Re: [CinCVS] Sync problem with ogg/theora/vorbis

2006-03-14 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Andre, > I rendered an ogg/theora/vorbis file with Cinelerra. > Everything went well but something strange is happening > > When I play it with mplayer everything plays smoothly but the sound is > about 200ms ahead (not synchronised with the image!) I've also noticed a lack of synchronization

Re: [CinCVS] Problem with playback

2006-03-10 Thread Alec Robertson
> I also have a playback issue with cinelerra-cvs-20060219 on gentoo. > The speed of the playback seems fine : 25fps but the video does not play > well : I can see a frame only every 15 seconds !!! I've find a workarround > : I apply an effect on the track ( color balance ) and It plays well > a

[CinCVS] problems with x11-xv

2006-02-28 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi Scott, I've also noticed that quitting from cinelerra, running kino with some dv file, then restarting cinelerra fixes the problem. Presumably there is some xv-reset call that kino makes? Maybe this can be included in cinelerra? I will post to the mplayer list to see if there's a fix from their

[CinCVS] Re: problems with x11-xv

2006-02-27 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, Indeed, if I try to start two separate mplayer processes, both using the same xv port (there is only 1 according to xvinfo), then mplayer complains on the second video that it cannot access the xv port. However, when it comes to the cinelerra problem, mplayer has quit and should have release

[CinCVS] problems with x11-xv

2006-02-27 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, I've been having some problems with the X11-XV display. If I restart my x-server and run cinelerra, everything displays fine using X11-XV. If I then run mplayer (using xv) and then go back to cinelerra, the video in the viewer or compositor "freezes" but the audio keeps playing. Interestingly

Re: [CinCVS] Is raw dv rendering broken?

2006-01-23 Thread Alec Robertson
I compiled the svn version and rendered a couple of dv tracks. The quicktime for linux container with dv video and two's complement audio worked fine. The raw dv format had ok video but the audio had some scratches and pops that weren't there in the debian cinelerra I had been using up until this p

[CinCVS] Is raw dv rendering broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Alec Robertson
Hi, I read on a previous thread "DVD Output?" that Raw DV rendering was broken? Could somebody detail what the problem is? I have been able to render to this format and play it in mplayer, open in Kino and encode it to various other formats without problem. Rendering in Quicktime for Linux wi