NAME
kino - non-linear editing of Digital Video data
SYNOPSIS
kino [ ( file | playlist ) ... ]
DESCRIPTION
kino allows you to import movies from DV camcorders, to edit, and play
them. file may be a DV encoded file that will be loaded at startup.
Alternatively, you can specify a SMIL playlist of DV files that was
previously created with kino.
DV is a special kind of video encoding, commonly used in digital
camcorders. Differently coded movies, like DivX or mjpeg, need to be
converted to DV before they can be fed into kino.
A video file either holds the raw DV-coded data, or wraps it in a
certain container format. Kino currently supports AVI, and QuickTime
containers, and distinguishes between the different formats by file
extension. Therefore, file names need to end in .dv or .dif for raw
files, .avi for AVI, and .mov for QuickTime files, respectively.
Anything else is treated as a SMIL playlist.
KEYSTROKES
Unlike other editors, kino uses many keyboard commands for fast
navigation and editing inside the movie. It acts on frames that are
single images from a movie, scenes that are defined as groupings of one
or more frames with recording times differing by no more than one
second, and movies that are groups of one or more scenes. The following
keystrokes can be used for moving and editing. Some of them are also
available as buttons in a graphical menu bar. (Also note the deliberate
similarities between kino commands and the text editor vi.) The
following is a brief list of the commands. A more complete list is
available in the online help.
MOVING AROUND
space Toggle between play and pause.
l, right-arrow
Move one frame forward.
h, left-arrow
Move one frame backward.
gg Move to the start of the movie.
G Move to the end of the movie.
0, ^ Move to the start of the current scene.
$ Move to the end of the current scene.
j, return, +, down-arrow
Move to the start of the next scene.
k, -, up-arrow
Move to the start of the previous scene.
ctrl-f Move forward five scenes.
ctrl-b Move backwards five scenes.
w Move forward one second.
b Move backwards one second.
DELETE OPERATIONS
x, dl, d space, del
cut the current frame.
dd cut the current scene.
d$ cut from current frame to end of scene.
d^, d0 cut from start of scene to before current frame.
dG cut to end of movie.
dgg cut from beginning of movie.
CLONE OPERATIONS
yl, y space
copy the current frame.
yy, Y copy the current scene.
y$ copy from current frame to end of scene.
y^, y0 copy from start of scene to current frame.
INSERT OPERATIONS
p paste after current frame.
P paste before current frame.
GENERAL COMMANDS
:r inserts a SMIL playlist or DV AVI before frame. (Pops up a file
dialog.)
:w saves the movie as a SMIL playlist. (Pops up a file dialog.)
:q quits the program.
SEE ALSO
the kino online help, kino2raw(1), dvgrab(1)
AUTHORS
kino was written by Arne Schirmacher <arne@schirmacher.de>, Dan Dennedy
<dan@dennedy.org>, and Charles Yates <charles.yates@pandora.be>.
This manual page was originally written by Daniel Kobras
<kobras@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others).
January 2004