12 Facts About Cinelerra

Cinelerra is a video editing and composition program designed for Linux.

Cinelerra became the first 64-bit media production application when it was rewritten to work with the AMD Opteron processor in June 2003 and was presented at SIGGRAPH 2004 in San Diego.

Cinelerra's interface is similar to that of other Non-linear editing systems, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Avid Media Composer.

Cinelerra uses its own widget toolkit Guicast, not conforming to the human interface guidelines of major Linux desktops such as GNOME and KDE.

Cinelerra has gained ground among some Linux enthusiasts looking for a native video editing system.

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At the National Association of Broadcasters' 2004 Electronic Media Show, Cinelerra received Bob Turner's "Making the Cut" award, given to "the best and most exciting post-production products seen at the convention".

Cinelerra-CV allows the community to contribute to an open repository where changes to the code are accessible to everyone.

The source code of Cinelerra-CV is available from the new official repo on GitHub [2].

Repository of Cinelerra-CVE is available on GitHub [3] and shows frequent updates.

An important issue is that Cinelerra-GG reduces reliance on system libraries by including them where practical, like ffmpeg and OpenEXR.

Cinelerra-GG is determined to get as close as possible to what can be expected from professional level video editing software for the Linux platform.

Cinelerra-GG has an extensive, actively maintained manual in both PDF and HTML form, which is accessible from within the Cinelerra-GG program.