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kino - non-linear editing of Digital Video data
kino [ ( file | playlist ) ... ]
kino allows you to import movies from DV camcorders, to edit, and play them. file may be a DV encoded file that will be loaded at startup. Alternatively, you can specify a SMIL playlist of DV files that was previously created with kino.
DV is a special kind of video encoding, commonly used in digital camcorders. Differently coded movies, like DivX or mjpeg, need to be converted to DV before they can be fed into kino.
A video file either holds the raw DV-coded data, or wraps it in a certain container format. Kino currently supports AVI, and QuickTime containers, and distinguishes between the different formats by file extension. Therefore, file names need to end in .dv or .dif for raw files, .avi for AVI, and .mov for QuickTime files, respectively. Anything else is treated as a SMIL playlist.
Unlike other editors, kino uses many keyboard commands for fast navigation and editing inside the movie. It acts on frames that are single images from a movie, scenes that are defined as groupings of one or more frames with recording times differing by no more than one second, and movies that are groups of one or more scenes. The following keystrokes can be used for moving and editing. Some of them are also available as buttons in a graphical menu bar. (Also note the deliberate similarities between kino commands and the text editor vi.) The following is a brief list of the commands. A more complete list is available in the online help.
MOVING AROUND
DELETE OPERATIONS
CLONE OPERATIONS
INSERT OPERATIONS
GENERAL COMMANDS
the kino online help, kino2raw(1), dvgrab(1)
kino was written by Arne Schirmacher <arne@schirmacher.de>, Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, and Charles Yates <charles.yates@pandora.be>.
This manual page was originally written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
January 2004 |