The answer is yes. Cinelerra is more stable in a 64 bit operating system than a 32 bit operating system. The reason is intermediate address calculations start screwing up at around 512MB on a 32 bit system. Multiplying and adding small registers can wrap around even 512MB numbers and that's what we're especially seeing with memory intensive floating point images.

Fortunately Cinelerra and Linux are now fully functional on the dew-opp. The dual Opteron, that is. This is improvement you can feel. Floating point image calculations finish in a snap. Never cower in fear over 2 gig virtual set sizes again. Cinelerra's floating point imaging is the application your dew-opp has been looking for.

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM

Now Cinelerra is by no means a lightweight program. You'll need something slightly less sexy than an Ipod to run it most effectively. Running in 32 bit mode is not recommended. We found this dual dual core Opteron with 128 bit, interleaved memory to be years ahead of anything else. It compresses MPEG-4 HDTV in realtime. The key is separate memory busses for each processor. Be aware most cheap motherboards share the memory bus of one processor with both processors.

Double Dual Core Opteron
4 Gig RAM
500 GB SATA drive
Tyan motherboard
Gigabit ethernet

ASSORTED FEATURES	AUDIO EFFECTS	VIDEO EFFECTS
Compositing + editing Still image panning VU meters Unlimited tracks 16 bit YUV compositing floating point compositing Background rendering on clusters Free form editing Firewire, MJPEG, bttv video I/O Firewire, OSS, Alsa audio I/O Batch capturing Batch rendering SMP utilization Realtime effects Quicktime, AVI, MPEG, and image sequence I/O OpenEXR images OGG Vorbis audio 64 bit internal audio representation Headroom monitoring LADSPA plugins Bezier masks Track routing like a real console Track nudge for audio and video Reverse audio and video in realtime Bidirectional, variable speed scrubbing Different overlay modes	Compressor Delay Denoise Despike Parametric EQ Freeverb Gain Heroine College Concert Hall Invert Loop Pitch shift Reverse Spectrogram Synthesizer Time based interpolate LADSPA compatibility	HDTV Standards conversion Various Effect TV plugins Blur Brightness/Contrast Chroma Key Color balance Decimate Deinterlace Delay Denoise Difference Key Downsample Flip Freeze Gradient Histogram Hue/Saturation Inverse Telecine Invert Linearize raw images Linear/Radial/Zoom Blur Loop Motion Tracking Oil Painting Overlay Perspective Polar Reverse Rotate Scale Sharpen Shift Interlace Swap channels Threshold Time Average Time based interpolate Title Translate Scopes Unsharp Mask Wave Whirl/Pinch

The sun rising in the west, proper grammar, heroines running for president: when it comes to insanity, they all pale compared to what Cinelerra brings to your web server's hard drive.

Whenever the credit card debt is low enough Cinelerra is shown at trade shows. For the first time in 3 years we showed it in 2004 and decided to collect the memories of the past 7 years. View pictures from all the appearances.

Sig Graph 2004

NAB 2004

NAB 2001

NAB 2000

The package is available from the download page.

Secrets of Cinelerra is the handbook for the Heroinewarrior fork of Cinelerra, containing tricks and tips you probably wouldn't think of.

Cybersquatters have taken cinelerra.org and cinelerra.com proving our ability to devise the most priceless English words out of nothing.

A reformatted version of Secrets of Cinelerra in Wiki format Wiki manual.

How to setup Cinelerra renderfarm: kerklied.

Cinelerra tutorial in french: funix.

Cinelerra at MIT: blu.

Cinelerra in gentoo: gentoo.

Wikipedia topic: wikipedia

A pro-video reseller who mentions Cinelerra and probably retired from it: lmahd.com.

Cinelerra isn't just for talking about on web pages. It's for making movies. Download some brief movies from the Screening Room..

9/12/05 - Cinelerra 2.0
Experience the power of H.264 encoding and MPEG-4 audio encoding without having to pay for a Quicktime pro license. Import MPEG video directly. Access the high dynamic range of raw digital camera images. Achieve more accurate motion paths with even more curves. Enjoy the dark, manly S.U.V. theme.

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