Lately I have seen the need to edit (cut, paste and manipulate) a pair of home videos, anything from the other world. But to tell the truth no matter the level of the videos is always necessary to have a tool for professional quality editing of them.

Actually I am not an expert in video editing, but for what I needed, Cinelerra I have been served.

Before entering fully to the installation of Cinelerra is necessary to change our repositories, so we will have the latest versions of Cinelerra and all the software you need to be able to render the audio and video.

Adding repositories

Cinelerra needs of the unstable version of Debian Sid. And While I use Lenny, the installation has worked well since I repositories unstable.

Note: If you have doubts as to add new repositories to the sources of ATP consult here


Cinelerra packages for Debian on x86 are compiled from SVN by Andraz Tori, and hosted by kiberpipa. To install these packages is necessary to add sources of the lines below:

  • For i386:
    deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/ ~ minmax / cinelerra / builds / sid /. /
  • For Pentium4 processors:
    deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/ minmax/cinelerra/builds/pentium4 ~ /. /
  • For Athlon processors:
    deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/ ~ minmax / cinelerra / builds / athlonxp /. /
  • Apt-source:
    deb-src http://www.kiberpipa.org/ ~ minmax / cinelerra / builds / sid /. /


Personally on my desktop machine I added the line to processors from AMD AthlonXP. And on my laptop I have the font file with the line to cinelerra Pentium4, as follows:

file: / etc / apt / sources.list 
  deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/ minmax/cinelerra/builds/pentium4 ~ /. /



It is now necessary to add certain packages that are not on the official Debian repositories, thanks to Christian Marillat:

file: / etc / apt / sources.list 
  deb sid main http://www.debian-multimedia.org/

To use this repository of multimedia sources, we must add the key gpg (gpg-key) from debian-multimedia.org, typing the following commands: 

  deathbian: ~ # gpg - keyserver HKP: / / wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net - recv-keys 1F41B907 
  deathbian: ~ # gpg - armor - export 1F41B907 | apt-key add --


Installing Cinelerra

The best thing here is to install via aptitude, as there are some libraries that must be enforced to ensure approval.
That's it, then retrieved the packages and a few minutes for installation and can run Cinelerra from its icon in the Start Menu -> Multimedia -> Cinelerra KDE.

Errors

Because it is a package Cinelerra in constant development can wait a couple of mistakes. In truth this is the only mistake that I run to sack:

void MWindow: init_shm (): WARNING / proc / sys / kernel / shmmax is 0 × 2000000, which is too low.

After a while google find the solution, we simply have to type the following line as root at the prompt: 

  deathbian: ~ # echo "0x7fffffff"> / proc / sys / kernel / shmmax



And Cinelerra run again.

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