On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Thiago Guagliardo Klohn wrote: > I'd like to know if it's possible to take a '.xml' video > that I have edited and save it in '.avi' or '.mov' simply by using > the key "save as". I have Cinelerra manual and there it
"Save as" allows you to choose the *name* of the file and only the name. It will always be an XML file. If you save it as .avi, it'll be an XML file with a name ending in .avi. The XML files created by Cinelerra are not "videos"; they are edit lists, that is, sets of instructions on how to create the video. What you probably want to do instead is render the edit list into a video file with the render command. That will also give you a choice of what name to call it; I strongly suggest that you choose a filename extension matching the format you choose, so choose a name ending in .avi if you're creating an AVI file, and so on. Rendering is a much different operation from saving; it involves actually pulling chunks out of the source files and re-encoding them to create the finished video stream, whereas saving the edit list just saves the list of instructions on how to eventually do the render. Normally you only rarely want to render, because it's time-consuming and may involve a quality loss; while working on your project you just load and save the XML edit lists and then when you're finally finished you render the result. When you watch your project during editing the editor renders parts of it on demand. > it the way I want? Is it a bug or a problem because I'm a Kubuntu > 7.10 user? Not to be rude, but it sounds to me like a bug or problem because you're a Windows user. The whole thing of file names being inextricably linked to the type of their contents is a Windows aberration; under Linux and most other operating systems, you can give any file any name and if you give it a misleading name (like naming an XML file "movie.mov") that's your problem. "Save as" .avi all you want; it will still *be* an XML file because that is what Cinelerra produces. -- Matthew Skala [email protected] Embrace and defend. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
