KINO(1)

💖 KINO — non-linear editing of Digital Video data 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about kino 🌸 this is the manual page for it, and yes I am about to make video editing sound like a group chat. let's go ✨

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🎬 SYNOPSIS

kino [ ( file | playlist ) ... ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

so kino lets you import movies from DV camcorders, edit them, and play them. that's the whole vibe 👑

file can be a DV encoded file — and if you give it one, it gets loaded at startup, no cap. or you can hand it a SMIL playlist of DV files that was previously created with kino. either one, she's ready 💅

now, DV? it's a special kind of video encoding, commonly used in digital camcorders. think of it as the native language of your camcorder 🎀. differently coded movies — like DivX or mjpeg — need to be converted to DV before they can be fed into kino. she does not speak that dialect, bestie, sorry 😭

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 it distinguishes between the different formats by file extension. so the file names need to end in:

• .dv or .dif — for raw files
• .avi — for AVI
• .mov — for QuickTime files

anything else? treated as a SMIL playlist. periodt 💀

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⌨️ KEYSTROKES

unlike other editors, kino uses many keyboard commands for fast navigation and editing inside the movie. it's giving vi energy and honestly? obsessed 🫶

she acts on three things, so let's get our vocabulary straight:

• frames — single images from a movie
• scenes — groupings of one or more frames with recording times differing by no more than one second
• movies — 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 — iykyk 😏)

the following is a brief list of the commands. a more complete list is available in the online help.

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🌈 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.

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💀 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.

bestie these are CUTS. destructive. the frames are gone gone. be so careful, I am begging 🙈

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🎀 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.

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✨ INSERT OPERATIONS

• p — paste after current frame.
• P — paste before current frame.

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👑 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.

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🌸 SEE ALSO

• the kino online help
• kino2raw(1)
• dvgrab(1)

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💜 AUTHORS

kino was written by Arne Schirmacher <arne@schirmacher.de>, Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, and Charles Yates <charles.yates@pandora.be>. absolute icons, all three 🫶

this manual page was originally written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). serving the community, we love to see it 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this manual page is from January 2004, for the KINO(1) entry in the General Commands Manual — so go forth, edit some DV, and slay ✨🎬💖