Howto: Install Cinelerra Video Editor and Compositor in Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron

Today, I was bored, and I decided to look around for a good video editor for linux, I dont know much about video editing and would like to learn a great deal more, here is a screenshot of CinelerraI just downloaded and finished installing cinerella, it looks like an old app, but I see that it is packed with plenty of special effects to add to your video's/movies. It looks a bit more powerful than avidemux. What I did was load up a divx movie and encoded the whole movie as a oil painting lol, it looks pretty cool, you can also add flames and other neat things to the video.
Here is some documentation to learn more about cinerella and what it does.

Here is an easy howto to install Cinelerra so you can be on your way editing videos...

For Hardy Heron add this repository in your sources list use the following terminal command:
sudo wget http://repository.akirad.net/dists/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/akirad.list

For Gutsy Gibbon add this repository in your sources list use the following terminal command:
sudo wget http://repository.akirad.net/dists/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/akirad.list

Installations from this repository need an authentication key. Add it by typing in your terminal the following command:
wget -q http://repository.akirad.net/dists/akirad.key -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
Now lets install Cinelerra:
sudo apt-get install cinelerra-generic

Cinelerra must be set to work with PulseAudio. Open Cinelerra and go to Settings->Preferences->Playback->Audio Driver. Select ESound and set the following parameters:
Server:blank
Port: 7007

Now that Cinelerra is installed you can access it via Applications->Sound & Video->Cinelerra

There is some great howto's/tutorials for Cinelerra here

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I'm pretty sure the name of the program is "Cinelerra".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra
1 reply · active 881 weeks ago
thanks for the correction, fixed.
Hardy packages are fracked (for those BSG fans out there.) The source has been returning 500 Internal Server Error when trying to download. I wish I'd stuck with Gusty now. I built a huge machine for video editing and I can't install Cinelerra.
when i try to install the source list this the erro i get help please

sudo: unable to resolve host myworld
[sudo] password for damion:
/etc/apt: Is a directory
damion@myworld:~$ sudo wget http://repository.akirad.net/dists/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/akirad.list
sudo: unable to resolve host myworld
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Seems to work on hardy now
package is broken it says -_- i tried all the exsamples above and i get the same result
i got it to install and it will load up my vids,, but when i play it vid is good sound is garbled,,,, any sugg...??? thanx for any inf in adv.
Still broken on hardy... anyone have an alternate link?
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Jinchiruuki · 860 weeks ago

I've got Hardy Heron,too,but I had no problems installing the program...
But I can't start cinelerra :(
It seems to collapse before I can see any part of it......
Yes jinchirkruuki, i have a similar problem. a little tab appears for a split second, with an X on it, and then its gone. i want to know whats wrong!
I installed it on hardy, but it doesn't starts up.
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Thomas Metcalf · 857 weeks ago

No public key

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