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)