This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install Cinelerra & Cinelerra-CV (Community Version) in Ubuntu using PPA.

Cinelerra is a professional video editor and compositor for Linux. It is produced by Heroine Virtual, and is free software. Cinelerra includes support for very high-fidelity audio and video: it processes audio using 64 bits of precision, and can work in both RGBA and YUVA color spaces, using floating-point and 16-bit integer representations, respectively. It is resolution and frame rate-independent, meaning that it can support video of any speed and size. The application has a wide range of features.

Install Cinelerra in Ubuntu using PPA:
Cinelerra team PPA provides latest stable packages for Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, and 10.04.

• To install Cinelerra, hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open up a terminal window, copy and paste this command into terminal and hit enter to add the PPA:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/ppa

  
  Then update and install:
  

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install cinelerra

  
  
• To install Cinelerra-CV, run following commands:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/cinelerra-cv

  Then update and install:
  

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install cinelerra-cv