Abstract: Over the last decade, farms of Linux servers have powered the production of major motion pictures. Today, individuals can use Linux to produce and distribute video in numerous formats; for example, YouTube, iTunes, DVD, and Blu Ray. Linux is no longer a hobbyists' tool, but a powerful production system that can be custom tailored. However, setting up a system like this is not for the faint of heart. Video and audio encoding and compression schemes can drive one to drink. Editing software in Linux is not polished, but difficulties can be overcome with perseverance. I will attempt to show how to create a working production workflow using Fedora, Cinelerra and various open source tools to produce a video ready for YouTube, iTunes, DVD and Vimeo.

2. blogger, musician, video enthusiast

6. Edit it

7. Output it to common formats

13. Feeling of satisfaction

14. High quality results

15. Creative freedom

16. Giving back to the community

18. ..for the results!

27. Bring it into your PC

28. Edit it with specialized software

29. Burn a DVD of the video

30. Share with others

32. Bring it into your PC

33. Edit it with specialized software

36. Get the word out by syndication (RSS)

38. Bring it into your PC with DVGRAB

39. Edit it with Cinelerra

42. Get the word out by syndication (RSS)

46. Verify it is working (dmesg, plugreport)

47. dvgrab <filename.ext>

50. Audio stream

54. Video Stream: 720P video

55. Audio Stream: MPEG, Layer II

58. Playback, video fader, audio fader

63. Video effects take a LOT of CPU power

65. Use a “renderfarm” for more power

68. Cin's rendering engine is a GUI front end to a command line interface

73. totem

74. ffplay

75. vlc

76. xine

79. HDTV

80. iPod/iPhone via iTunes

83. Reboot to Mac

84. Load to iTunes

85. Load up to Vimeo

88. Use 64-bit OS best

91. deb http://giss.tv/~vale/ubuntu64 ./

92. sudo apt-get update

93. sudo aptitude install cinelerra

95. install the dependencies for Cinelerra

97. run ./configure

98. run &quot;make&quot;

99. run &quot;make install&quot;

102. Hardware RAID usually faster

103. Linux doesn't like hardware RAID

105. Index files (.bcast directory)

108. Also, the “nudge” feature in the patchbay