October 2019 - Cin - Cinelerra-GG Mailing Lists

Shape Wipe Transitions and GIT checkin
by Phyllis Smith 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

(Started new email so title is more relevant). Included in today's GIT checkin is the following. IgorB supplied another 25 Shape Wipe Transitions -- actually 50 with a 1080 and a 540 version. For further information refer to earlier email at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00619.html GG did a lot of rework on the Shape Wipe Transitions code. He added the 25 1080 versions; fixed a couple of bugs; added a Feather slider (based on exponential values); and built in parallel processing instead of single threading. So in response to: > Yes it is resampled, but by my tests on my poor PC, 540 works faster than > 1080 for a 29.97 fps project, the MIN fps achieved with "Tr-1080_Butterfly" > is 22fps, while with "Tr-540_Butterfly" is 28fps. So, in some projects I > can use the 540 instead of 1080 to save cpu. > the fps with the 1080 should now be almost the same as the 540 now with the rework that gg did. I tested it and it seemed to use the same amount of cpu at 1080 as at 540 (monitor with the "top" command and checked Preferences frames per second). He says that once past the initial check at the very beginning, it should run at the same speed.. A static tar build is at the following in case anyone wants to test for Ubuntu16: https:// cinelerra-gg.org/download/testing/cinelerra-5.1-ub16-x86_64-static.txz Thanks IgorB! gg/Phyllis

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New build tars and packages are available
by Phyllis Smith 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

You can find the latest tar and packages at: https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/tars/ https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/pkgs/ Text copy of the releasenotes.pdf is below. --------------------------------------------------------- *Cinelerra-GG (Version Infinity) Release Notes for 09/01/2019-09/30/2019 for builds* *Special Thanks to Sam* for an excellent introduction and description of Cinelerra-GG/Infinity at: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Cinelerra-GG_Infinity/ It is worthwhile for users new to Video Editing software to refer to this document to get started on using Cinelerra and to get a good general idea of what to expect. It is in German but easily translatable to other languages via the Google translate program. 1. An optional compiler option of –with-clang was added which allows for *compiling with clang* for about 90% of the source packages as an alternative to gcc. 2. The *libx265* thirdparty package has been updated to version 3.1.2 (Olaf recommendation). 3. *System builds* have had a problem that was just pointed out to us with some third-party packages such as libvpx, opus, etc. Therefore the build procedures have had to be worked differently so persons doing distro builds may be impacted to some degree (Solus maintainer BT #303). 4. *Usability Improvements:* *Crop & Position plugin* is new and is added to the Geometry subset (Anonymous contributor). On the timeline, there is now a separator line between tracks for easier visibility (Ugin suggestion). In order to provide easy access to 20 of the most recent media or xml files loaded instead of only 10, the File pulldown includes a new choice of “*Load recent*”. This means that the latest files will no longer show on the bottom of the menu which led to varying size and a cluttery look (BT #176). Nested media in the Resources window Media folder now provides single frame preview (BT #281). Crop Tool in the Compositor is being updated slowly as its existing functionality was quite limited: “Do It” button wording changed to “Apply”. 3 options are being worked of Reformat (the only original option), Resize, and Shrink. Allowance for parameter values that are not multiples of 4 by switching to GLx4 usage. Disallow negative tumbler values for the parameters. Both Resize and Shrink allow for disarming tracks to prevent the crop from affecting them. The *Camera and Projector Tools *in the Compositor now have F11/Shift F11 and F12/Shift F12 hooked into the gui menu and with tooltips for easy access. The tool gui in the Compositor is now being automatically opened when you click on Projector, Camera, Ruler, Crop, Eyedrop, and Mask. This is more convenient then having to click on the “? Show tool info” icon. Currently you can still use the “?” icon to dismiss the tool gui. For demonstration purposes, if you want to put a png file temporarily in the Viewer on initial startup, you can add a vsplash.png file to the Cinelerra bin directory. It is cleared when media is loaded. 5. Bugs/Issues fixed: Render menus now update top line information when you click on “Create new file at each label”. Render warnings added: “no audio or video in asset format” & “render file per label and no labels”. Changed Build scripts to special build libdav1d for 32-bit systems (Andrew patch). Updated copyright on Settings→Preferences, About screen (patch provided by Andrew). Also on the About screen, the August Features of Note was not done but is now (MatN notify). LV2 blacklist file updated to include 2 more lv2 plugins that fail (Olivier found and let us know). SEGV occurred when could not read anything and then tried to create vicon, now fixed. Vaapi graphics hardware acceleration fixed after upgrade to ffmpeg 4.2 changed how it worked (BT #304 by Capslock) Info in Resources directory has been updated to comment on 15 newer plugins. Removed unused and irrelevant timebomb code (Andrew suggestion). Info in the Resources window on a nested xml used to SEGV, but is now fixed (Olaf mentioned). All of the timeline pulldowns, are a little better spaced between the option and its shortcut (IgorB recommended). About 8 places in the Cinelerra code, produced error messages of “not divisible by 4 is not supported” when using the OpenGL driver. With the addition of GLx4, these are no longer necessary (Andrea notify). The parameter in 30 video ffmpeg opts files was incorrectly written as “bitrate” when it should have been simply “b” - this is now fixed (BT 305 by kex). Put cropp.png in correct location (IgorB notify). Fix tumbler text box that was using the wrong data type. Rework proxy scalar in order to fix 2 bugs; single images did not scale correctly (BT 194 IgorB) and specifying a different file format did not take affect until re-opened but now it does. Fix file probe for EXR library in the builds. Show Overlays menu required change for using the theme text color for Mode, Pan, & Mask (Olaf). A fix to clear all Hard Edges to include the last Hard Edge on the end of the file. The Tumbler next to the Font list, only tumbled 1 font in each direction. This is now fixed.

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Website
by Sam 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hi guys, Unfortunately an update of some WordPress plugins affected the main template and the appearance of the website. Two plugins influence each other, so this error occurs again and again. I opened a ticket at one of the plugin developers and wait for them to release a fix. The translated websites have been temporarily disabled, but will be unlocked as soon as the bug has been fixed. I regret the inconvenience and hope the website will be fully usable again soon. The other services are all up to date and running flawlessly. Sam --

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Suggestions: open/save projects
by David Quinton 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

More suggestions 1. each save sends the EDL to clipboard, which eats up my clipit history, not useful if I am doing other work and I need to use the clipboard history 2. open/save dialogue has limited saved places e.g. no favorites, only recent files in drop-down, which makes it harder to locate places 3. I would find a recent project list very useful, as currently, the recent file list gets full of loaded clip file names and they crowd out the project files 4. a project manager window would also be very useful, with a list of projects and different actions available, such as load (replace, concatenate, insert point), render, add to batch, delete, add new xml file - with a few detail columns such as date-time last updated, length on timeline/frames, format dimensions, time last rendered, etc Quinton

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Consolidation of cinlelerra-gg tutorials?
by zage Chillingsworth 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hello all, I recently came across an email thread from an old cinelerra-cvs mailing list which talked about a user's suggestion to consolidate tutorials into a single wiki-like repository. https://lists.skolelinux.org/pipermail/cinelerra/2007-November/012319.html Through some active digging online, I've been able to come across a few old cinelerra tutorials, including a recent (ish) video series by a youtuber named "chipper videos", however I am curious if there might be a few more scattered around the web. I was curious if anyone has created a list of tutorial resources, either here in the mailing list or on the forums? Would be cool to checkout, or build one ourselves. - Adam

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Suggestion from user
by Andrea paz 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

D Quinton's e-mails are full of interesting suggestions. Maybe it's better to put them on Mantis BT so as not to lose track of them?

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Server & website
by Sam 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

As some of you may have noticed, we were constantly struggling with the SSL certificates, because the previous procedure did not work anymore. After a long night or rather very long early morning, we finally found a solution. The Certbot brought inexplicable error messages, which nobody could understand. LetsEncrypt made some changes to the bot that led to these errors. After almost two days of searching we finally found a solution. The certificates are now up to date. Many thanks also to Andrea for the hints with the errors. Should anyone find any more bugs, please let us know. Thank you. Sam --

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Server - Website - Git - MantisBT
by Sam 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

The website is online again. We have upgraded Linux on the server and have now extended the SSL certificate to almost a year. Some changes also had to be made to Cloudflare, these changes can affect MantisBT, git and the forum. If you have any difficulties or notice any anomalies, please let us know. Many thanks also to GG and Phyllis for their active support. Sometimes it takes teamwork to fix the annoying bugs. Some tasks (user requests) are still open and will be processed in the next days. Sam --

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Mailman test
by Sam 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

It's just a test. --

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Server - Website - Git - MantisBT
by Sam 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

The website is online again. We have upgraded Linux on the server and have now extended the SSL certificate to almost a year. Some changes also had to be made to Cloudflare, these changes can affect MantisBT, git and the forum. If you have any difficulties or notice any anomalies, please let us know. Many thanks also to GG and Phyllis for their active support. Sometimes it takes teamwork to fix the annoying bugs. Some tasks (user requests) are still open and will be processed in the next days. Sam --

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