Hello! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Thiago Guagliardo Klohn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, Matthew - > > It worked as you instructed me, but the out come was a video with images in > pink, green and blue colors mainly. How can it be fixed? Is there a name for > that kind of erro so that I may research it? I couldn't find an option to > render my '.xml' as '.mov' either - there must be a way to do it, but I just > couldn't find it.
How do you render your video? Try first to render to dv. File,render (shift +r) Choose File Format "Raw DV" and rebder video tracks. > As a matter of fact, I've been a Linux user for the last 6 > years and I prefer it to Micro$oft, specially because it forces you to learn > a lot of new things, but it doesn't seem obvious if you don't know much > about computers. Anyway, thanks a lot for your hand! > > Thiago > > --- On Mon, 2/3/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CinCV] xml into .avi or .mov > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 2 March, 2009, 3:56 PM > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
