[ubuntu-studio-users] Cinelerra-GG

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Hi Mike

On 5/2/20 11:24 AM, Mike Squires wrote:
> I'm trying to build a toolkit to create videos of musicians playing
> together as in the Chad LB video of Coltrane's "Giant Steps", but
> using open source tools.  I would like to do this in the Ubuntu Studio
> environment rather than just installing AVLinux.
>
> I've done a little, including a video that merged a video track shot
> with a smartphone with an audio track recorded using a Zoom H4 using
> OpenShot; it worked well.  However, OpenShot can't as far as I know
> allow the windowing of video streams as the audio content changes and
> I don't see that in KDEenlive either.
>
> One package that I have a little experience with is Cinelerra.  I had
> previously played with Cinelerra-CV but it appears that this project
> has been merged with Cinelerra-GG.
>
> An attempt to install Cinelerra-GG from the cinelerra-gg.org web site
> failed.  There are instructions to install onto 18.04 but the
> directory did not exist.  I assume that the project has newer files
> under development, but I don't really know that.
>
> On a chance I ran the code that downloaded the current cinelerra5
> source code from the "git" archive which worked.  Much to my surprise,
> given the complexity of the package, configuration, compilation, and
> installation of cinelerra-gg succeeded using the instructions for a
> "shared BUILD" in the README found in the root directory of the source
> distribution.  One warning:  the compilation ran all 8 cores of my
> dual quad Xeon at 100% for quite a while, although other applications
> could be run at the same time they were definitely slowed down.
>
> It configured, compiled, and installed.  Execution from a launcher
> also worked.  I've only read in a .MOV file that I'd already created
> and played it, and that also worked.
>
> I'm quite a bit out of my depth as a programmer here, but I've been
> compiling and installing things on my FreeBSD systems for years and
> following that path seems to be working OK.
>
> The path used by others has been to send out a click track with charts
> for the rhythm section.  Once the rhythm section audio is merged it is
> then send to the section leaders, if any and the result of that
> process is merged and then sent to the section members.  The result of
> this process is then sent to the soloists and the final merge of audio
> tracks and video tracks is then done on something like Cinelerra.  The
> individual recordings can be done as simply as shooting video from a
> smartphone but a separate recording on better equipment is of course a
> good idea.
>
Terribly sorry to tell you this, but you'd have to talk to the Cinelerra
forum. Cinelerra is not in the Ubuntu repositories and is, therefore,
not supported here.

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Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader
Ubuntu Studio

ubuntustudio.org


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