Keywords: GNU, Linux, DV, video, editor, non-linear, capture, Firewire, IEEE 1394

Chapter 1. Introduction
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## Chapter 1. Introduction

Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE 1394 for Chapter 6, Capturing DV , VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV, AVI, and Quicktime formats.

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Kino does not directly edit any video encodings other than DV.

You can load or import (requires ffmpeg ) multiple DV clips and edit them non-destructively using a variety of techniques including simple split, join, cut-and-paste, and drag-and-drop operations. Then, you can save the project to a SMIL XML document. Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi commands ( Chapter 13, Keyboard Shortcut Reference ). Also, Kino can export ( Chapter 10, Export ) the project in a number of formats:

- DV over IEEE 1394

- Raw DV, DV AVI

- Quicktime DV (requires libquicktime or Quicktime 4 Linux )

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  Quicktime 4 Linux is already installed if you have Cinelerra or Cinelerra CV .

- still frames: PPM, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, TGA, and whatever other gdk-pixbuf modules are on your system

- WAV

- MP3 (requires lame )

- Ogg Vorbis (requires oggenc )

- Ogg Theora (requires ffmpeg2theora )

- MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (requires mjpegtools 1.6 or 1.8 )

- DVD Video authoring (requires dvdauthor )

- MPEG-4, H.264, and Flash Video (requires ffmpeg )

- or anything that can read Raw DV from a pipe (e.g. ffmpeg) through user-extensible scripts

The FX mode ( Chapter 9, FX ) provides some basic audio and video effects such as filters and transitions for audio and video. It also provides extensibility through a plugin API. At the time of this writing, all plugins have been incorporated into the Kino releases.

Kino does not offer multitrack capabilities through a timeline user interface, but do not let that discourage you. Many things that would require a multi-track timeline can be accomplished with more planning and manual operations. Some of the built-in effects include:

- color video generator

- gradient video generator

- generate video from stills

- video noise generator

- audio gain envelope

- audio dub

- audio mix from WAV (or any format supported by ffmpeg )

- audio fade in or out

- audio crossfade transition

- monochrome

- sepia

- inverse

- blur

- soften

- flip

- mirror image

- kaleidoscope

- keyframeable pan and zoom

- keyframeable brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, value, and white balance (color temperature and green tint)

- charcoal

- titler (using Pango ) with motion and fading

- superimpose stills with motion and fading

- keyframeable compositing transition (e.g., fly-in)

- numerous and user-extensible wipe transitions

- rudimentary (blue or green) color key

- dissolve wipe

- fade to/from color

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