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                                           KINO(1)