[CinCVS] req - frei0r support

2007-12-07 Thread David McNab
Hi all, I'm writing to ask if there might be any way of persuading the current cin2 developers to add frei0r plugin support to the current Cinelerra. I know that frei0r support is on the todo list for cin3, but this could be years off. frei0r is a very simple plugin API. For those already up to

Re: [CinCVS] donate money to farther Cinelerra

2007-11-16 Thread David McNab
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:51 +, Dylan Botha wrote: > Good Day > > My name is Dylan, I do IT work for a Film Director named Jurgen Alan > ( www.jurgenalan.com/ ) > We have had an interest in Linux for a long time (Debian mainly) and > watching the progression of video editing for sometime now >

Re: [CinCVS] Towards a better cin ChromaKey

2007-10-26 Thread David McNab
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:10 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:26:54 +0200, Graham Evans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the codec returns uncompressed 4:2:0 or 4:1:1 data, then the temporary > shouldn't just repeat the colour pixels in a 2x2 or 4x1 pattern. That's > no

[CinCVS] Towards a better cin ChromaKey

2007-10-02 Thread David McNab
Hi folks, I thought I'd report on this list a recent discussion with cehteh about the Cin chroma-key plugins. As I mentioned to cehteh, I've been working on y4m, a python-based framework for scripted video editing. With just half an hour's work, I was able to come up with a chromakey plugin for

Re: [CinCVS] ANN: yuvgimp

2007-09-15 Thread David McNab
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 03:47 +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > > I've released an intial, alpha, proof-of-concept (but working) version > > of 'yuvgimp', which allows yuv4mpeg streams to be processed > > automatically in GIMP, one frame at a time. > > Isn't such thing not 'natively' implemented in p

[CinCVS] ANN: yuvgimp

2007-09-15 Thread David McNab
Hi all, This could be of interest to Cinelerra users, since Cin offers the option to render out yuv4mpegpipe video. I've released an intial, alpha, proof-of-concept (but working) version of 'yuvgimp', which allows yuv4mpeg streams to be processed automatically in GIMP, one frame at a time. So fr

[CinCVS] effects fps versus project settings

2007-09-11 Thread David McNab
Hi, If I have a Cin project set at 25fps, and I have a clip on the timeline which is 50fps progressive, and a 'fields to frames' on that track converting the 50fps progressive to 25fps interlaced, will the 'fields to frames' effect receive 50fps from the clip? Or, will the clip be frame-dropped to

[CinCVS] video quality loss measurements?

2007-09-10 Thread David McNab
Hi, Does anyone know of any nix-compatible tools which can objectively measure the quality loss of video caused by various types of compression/manipulation? One way I can think of is sum of squares of pixel YUV or RGB differences. How effective would this really be? Are there better ways? For ex

Re: [CinCVS] problems with batch render

2007-09-03 Thread David McNab
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 08:29 +1200, David McNab wrote: > I'm having trouble with 'batch render'. Ignore this - Raffa very kindly helped me through it on #cinelerra. Cheers David ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@s

[CinCVS] problems with batch render

2007-09-03 Thread David McNab
Hi all, I'm having trouble with 'batch render'. (I'm using cinelerra svn, just a couple of days old, with the recent ogg import fix) What I've done, closely following the Cinelerra manual, is: - exported an EDL file for my video track - in the batch render dialog: - added this edl to the b

Re: [CinCVS] Very very slow playback

2007-09-02 Thread David McNab
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 15:34 +0100, Bruno Miguel wrote: > Hello. > I compiled, yesterday, Cinelerra from CVS in Debian Sid without any > major problems. Now I want to playback a project, but the playback is > terribly slow. Try setting background rendering. Can be a huge comfort in some situations.

[CinCVS] a cin3 architectural vision

2007-08-27 Thread David McNab
Hi all, I managed today to get some ideas down on virtual paper, towards what could be a good high-level architecture for cinv3: www.freenet.org.nz/misc/cin3-architecture.pdf Thoughts? Cheers David ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-24 Thread David McNab
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 10:41 +0800, Martin Ellison wrote: > But anyway, what is wrong with switches? You find out soon enough if you've got a big switch in a tight time-critical loop. ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.l

Re: [CinCVS] Some Ficl documentation for you

2007-08-24 Thread David McNab
primitive function 4. Have some synchronisation, such as a global bool flag, so the main thread can test if the child thread is done Cheers David > - Original Message > From: David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no > Sent: Friday, 24 Augu

Re: [CinCVS] Some Ficl documentation for you

2007-08-24 Thread David McNab
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 09:42 +1200, David McNab wrote: > In a multi-thread environment such as Cin, you have to change from the > 'read/eval loop' to an 'eval-on-Enter handler'. Oh, I forgot to mention - FICL supports this perfectly. It has a function to evaluate an arbit

Re: [CinCVS] Some Ficl documentation for you

2007-08-24 Thread David McNab
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 21:09 +, Mark Carter wrote: > 24.3 Invoking the FICL REPL > “REPL” is the read-eval-print-loop, which allows you to interact with > Cinelerra from the console. To start the REPL, select menu item File > > Ficl Repl. This will cause Cinelerra to “freeze” as it drops down t

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-24 Thread David McNab
ly prefer 'C with basic OO'. Cheers David > But anyways, it's probably better if we just agree to disagree. ;) > > - Original Message > From: David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no > Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2007 9:37:05 AM >

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-24 Thread David McNab
all just be easier in C". > > It would be nice to use a really high programming language, but we > live in a C world. > > > - Original Message > From: David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no > Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2007 2:05:

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-23 Thread David McNab
a panacea for large projects, but if well used can take away a lot of pain. > On 24/08/07, David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 19:57 +, Mark Carter wrote: > > It's also why I'm trying to convince people to stop using C >

Re: [CinCVS] Some of my thoughts on scripting

2007-08-23 Thread David McNab
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 19:57 +, Mark Carter wrote: > It's also why I'm trying to convince people to stop using C++ - C is > just easier to interface with. I find it way easier to wrap over C than C++, but with the cost of implementing stuff in C just to benefit wrapping, it's like the tail tryi

[CinCVS] ANN: 'framerate' converter script - bugfix release

2007-08-22 Thread David McNab
Hi all, Further to earlier announcement of the 'framerate' script (a bit of python glue which does some plumbing on yuvmotionfps and ffmpeg to give a front end which lets you convert video of one format with one framerate to same or different format with different framerate, with motion interpolat

[CinCVS] #openvideo irc room

2007-08-21 Thread David McNab
Hi, Would it be possible to mention #openvideo on the Cin homepage, alongside the existing mention of #cinelerra? #openvideo feels like a better forum for non-Cinelerra-specific discussion than #cinelerra-chat. If the homepages of other video editing progs to the same, then #openvideo could beco

Re: [CinCVS] Fancy Titles HowTo

2007-08-20 Thread David McNab
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 12:09 +0800, Martin Ellison wrote: > You can always use Blender. Agreed. Tactical nuclear warheads are known to be very effective for removing tree-stumps. ;P Cheers David ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no htt

Re: [CinCVS] A vision of Cinelerra v3 (hopefully)

2007-08-20 Thread David McNab
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:38 +0100, Mark Carter wrote: > As regards scripting interface - I have begun interfacing with ficl. > I'm beginning to wonder if ECL (Embedded Common Lisp) might be a > really good thing to use - you get all the high levelness of Lisp, > with the integrabitlity with C

[CinCVS] render-farm: compiling, and performance

2007-08-20 Thread David McNab
Hi, I'm seriously thinking of getting a bunch of free/cheap old boxen to use as Cin render farm nodes. A few questions come to mind: 1) Compiling - is there a way of ./configure-ing and compiling a Cin renderfarm node, such that it doesn't need X or any graphical libs? I'm preferring to have the

Re: [CinCVS] help converting .ogg to .mpg

2007-08-20 Thread David McNab
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 16:43 -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > hi, > > I need a little help transcoding IL'dar AKHmetgaleev's excellent short > documentary film called "Mansour" from .ogg to .mpg for inclusion in > the Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. Unfortunately, the > transcoding has

[CinCVS] Fancy Titles HowTo

2007-08-20 Thread David McNab
Hi all, After struggling with the limitations of the 'Title' plugin, I just tried out an idea for getting more professional-looking scrolling credits working in Cin (came to me when I was drifting off to sleep last night). Straightforward process, using 100% open source tools and a simple 3-step

Re: [CinCVS] A vision of Cinelerra v3 (hopefully)

2007-08-20 Thread David McNab
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 10:11 +0200, Adrian Prantl wrote: > > Just following up on some discussion on IRC about CinV3 options, > > here's > > a hypothetical example based on the concept of 'libcinelerra', the > > main > > video editing engine, on top of which any gui is very thin and very > > cle

[CinCVS] A vision of Cinelerra v3 (hopefully)

2007-08-18 Thread David McNab
Hi, Just following up on some discussion on IRC about CinV3 options, here's a hypothetical example based on the concept of 'libcinelerra', the main video editing engine, on top of which any gui is very thin and very cleanly separated. Cheers David $ gcc -c myprog.c $ gcc -o mypro

[CinCVS] req: titles plugin

2007-08-16 Thread David McNab
Hi, It would be great if the Title video plugin could support a rich-text editor, allowing text attributes like font, colour, size etc to be applied to individual portions of text, like with a word processor. As it is, it has a plain-text editor, and the attributes apply to the whole of the text.

[CinCVS] idea for irc logging tweak

2007-08-14 Thread David McNab
Hi, I'm wondering if the IRC logging could benefit from auto-segmenting, to make it easier to search. How it could work is that a new file gets started if one of the following occurs: - file size grows over (say) 4k, AND more than 10 minutes elapses without a post (apart from join/leave/away/

Re: [CinCVS] What I've been up to

2007-08-13 Thread David McNab
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 21:41 +0100, mark carter wrote: > Feel free to drool now ;) Why not publish your proposed final cinelerra-forth wordlist. That could get me drooling ;) Cheers David ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://ini

Re: [CinCVS] A working scripting interface

2007-08-12 Thread David McNab
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 13:00 +0800, Martin Ellison wrote: > Who knows, I may even go one better and write the code in an > intermediate layer which spits out back ends - one of them C, > one of > them ficl, and make it generic enough that you can tailor it. >

[CinCVS] #cinelerra irc channel usage

2007-08-12 Thread David McNab
Hi all, At present, there's only one Cinelerra-related channel on IRC, which is serving multiple purposes as development discussion, help and general chat. As Cobra has expressed, there's a conflict between these purposes, with developers logging #cinelerra and using that to keep up to date with

Re: [CinCVS] Cinelerra productions

2007-08-12 Thread David McNab
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 12:21 -0400, Kevin Brosius wrote: > On 2007-08-11 22:32, Jonas Wulff wrote: > > > The problem now is that unfourtunately we don't have the webspace > > available to host the movie itself :( We planned an online > > 'release' (sounds bigger than it is) under CC but somehow did

[CinCVS] framerate converter script

2007-08-11 Thread David McNab
Hi all, I've written a little utility script called 'framerate', which wraps up all the yuv encoding/decoding and yuvmotionfps invocation and final encoding for the motion-estimating re-timer I mentioned earlier. http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/framerate.py Usage example: $ framerate -r 25 -b

Re: [CinCVS] I found a linux motion interpolator! :))

2007-08-11 Thread David McNab
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 23:54 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:28:35 +0200, David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 23:17 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > ... > >> Please consider if the motion estimation software wri

Re: [CinCVS] I found a linux motion interpolator! :))

2007-08-11 Thread David McNab
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 23:17 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:34:27 +0200, David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 17:04 +0800, Graham Evans wrote: > >> **wish list** > >> Wouldn't it be great if

Re: [CinCVS] A working scripting interface

2007-08-11 Thread David McNab
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 15:15 +0100, mark carter wrote: > Exciting stuff (for me anyway), but I've managed to get a scripting > interface going in Cinelerra. It could open up a world of possibilities > for user scripting, building compound effects, whatever. > > What I've got working so far is a men

Re: [CinCVS] I found a linux motion interpolator! :))

2007-08-11 Thread David McNab
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 17:04 +0800, Graham Evans wrote: > **wish list** > Wouldn't it be great if this could be modified into a cinelerra plug in... I'd do it, except I'm so far behind on so many projects that I can't afford the time for the learning curve and for adapting yuvmotionfps into the Cin

Re: [CinCVS] I found a linux motion interpolator! :))

2007-08-11 Thread David McNab
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 02:24 -0500, Derek McTavish Mounce wrote: > Thank you for finding this! It's the least I can do to give back to the Cin devs and community, as thanks for all the hard slog they've put into writing such an excellent video NLE. > In my fairly recent switch from > Windows+Aft

[CinCVS] I found a linux motion interpolator! :))

2007-08-10 Thread David McNab
Hi, Following up on an earlier post (I've been searching for something which can lift the framerate of my video, and interpolate the motion between frames). After several days on and off searching and trying stuff, I've found something that seems to work. http://jcornet.free.fr/linux/yuvmotionfp

[CinCVS] OT: panasonic cameras question

2007-08-10 Thread David McNab
Hi, I'm looking to get a second-hand 3ccd camera, and am currently feeling drawn to the Panasonic NV-GSxxx models, mainly because they're reasonably affordable, well-supported and have the 3ccd system. On the local auction site, I can see a few - mainly GS120, GS180 and GS230, sitting around the

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-09 Thread David McNab
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:03 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:02:06 +0200, Raffaella Traniello > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> From the Manual: > > "Cinelerra is not intended for consumers. [...] > > I consider that a bug, and I believe that some of the frustration > tha

[CinCVS] motion interpolation software

2007-08-07 Thread David McNab
Hi, Can anyone recommend any software for linux which can do reasonable detection/interpolation of motion to help bring low framerate video up to speed? Cheers David ___ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-07 Thread David McNab
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 19:42 +0100, mark carter wrote: > I'm new to Cinelerra - and yeah, it is difficult to learn. What doesn't > help it is its instability. Ahhh, but you forget cin's Major Saving Grace: 'Load From Backup' :) Cheers David ___ Cine

[CinCVS] Req: Cinelerra plugin architecture

2007-08-06 Thread David McNab
Hi, My mind has often turned to the subject of plugins for Cinelerra, and how to make this a true killer feature. I'd like to suggest a change to the plugin architecture - allow dynamically loaded plugins, compiled separately from Cinelerra. I notice that part of Cin's installation is a director

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-06 Thread David McNab
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 21:19 +0100, mark carter wrote: > In my travels I came across Open Movie Editor. There's a demo of it over > on YouTube: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ljEb1PdEdM > The main website is: > http://openmovieeditor.sourceforge.net/HomePage > A cinelerra beater, perhaps?? I th

Re: [CinCVS] problem - lagging video

2007-08-03 Thread David McNab
l learning to film myself), but if you're willing to help and can mail me off-list, I'll put it up somewhere. Cheers David > > On 8/3/07, David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a camera which shoots ok for the most part, but

[CinCVS] problem - lagging video

2007-08-03 Thread David McNab
Hi all, I've got a camera which shoots ok for the most part, but when there's a lot of movement, the video falls way behind (0.75secs approx) for a few seconds, then catches back up. It's like the camera's software is too slow or something. In a 4 minute clip, I see about 3 instances of this. Is

Re: [CinCVS] software(s) to capture onscreen activity

2007-08-02 Thread David McNab
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 21:15 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey folks, > What software are people using to capture screen activity (ie, > starting programs, opening windows, etc in Gnome)? I'm interested in > integrating captures of web browser activity into a Cinelerra project > and wondered wh

Re: [CinCVS] Small interview/documentary

2007-08-01 Thread David McNab
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 02:04 +0530, Camille Harang wrote: > i am currently shooting a documentary about > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janadesh_2007 in India. But i met there > Tibetans hunger striking against Beijing Olympics, i made a short > documentary/interview (with subtitles) in french and en

[CinCVS] scripting interface

2007-08-01 Thread David McNab
Hi, Are there any plans to support a scripting interface for Cinelerra in the future? For example, a Python API which presents the timeline, tracks, edits, frames etc as objects, with a rich set of methods for operating on them? One reason why I ask: I'm looking at leveraging the power of GIMP

[CinCVS] overcoming a-v drift with separate sources

2007-07-31 Thread David McNab
Hi, Suppose I've recorded simultaneously with 2 DV cameras and an audio mic into the soundcard, and that these three sources are not electronically synchronised (no SMPTE cables etc). Then, on loading the 2 video and the 1 audio track into Cin, and syncing them up at the beginning to the clackerb

Re: [CinCVS] general rendering question

2007-07-31 Thread David McNab
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:53 +0200, Valentina Messeri wrote: > you can export: > > FileFormat quicktime4linux vcodec dv/acodec two complements > > then use directly ffmpeg to encode dvd-format compatiblesmtg like: > > ffmpeg -i input.mov -target pal-dvd -aspect 4:3 output.mpg > > ciao! Hey,

[CinCVS] general rendering question

2007-07-31 Thread David McNab
Hi, I'm producing some 5-minute instructional vids. For source, I'm using 320x240 quicktime files. Target is PAL DVD, 720x576 I've zoomed the projector to enlarge 320x240 to 720x576. This cuts out a bit of frame to the left and right, but that's ok. For rendering, I'm using the recipe for Cine