Heroine Virtual Ltd. heroinewarrior.com is pleased to announce Cinelerra 1.0 for Linux, one month earlier than planned. Releases are normally done in September to coincide with an annual increase in Linux usage that occurs every September. Current stability, desire to move forward with new major features, and level of interest from users were all deemed appropriate to do a release now instead of waiting.

Cinelerra 1.0 is a significant advance in general purpose content creation based on native Linux software not only because of its feature set but because of the low cost to users. Users can now expand their render farms with a minimal bottleneck due to software development costs. At the same time, users are not restricted by the usage license and corporate agenda of their operating system vendor. Cinelerra gives users complete ownership of the means to production.

Cinelerra combines most of the basic functions needed to produce motion pictures with a capable compositing system. Advanced editing, YUV compositing, and realtime effects are some of the things Cinelerra does. Cinelerra's 16 bit YUV compositing engine has been optimized for multiple CPU's, reduces generation loss, and significantly reduces compression time. Capturing from IEEE1394, Video4Linux, Motion JPEG, and screenshots is supported.

Heroine Virtual has produced content creation software for power computing platforms since 1996. The last six years have seen a steady increase in size and complexity of our products and we see continued expansion in this direction while others are shifting to simpler products. While not mainstream, big software and power computing are becoming a cult industry, like monster trucks, pro wrestling and skyscrapers. Cult software and a love of heroines is the common bond at Heroine Virtual.

Cinelerra can be obtained from heroinewarrior.com.

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