3Denlive User Guide

3Denlive is a Non-linear video editing freeware.

• it may be used to produce 2D or 3D-stereoscopic pictures or videos from 2D or 3D-stereoscopic pictures or videos.
• it is a multi-platforms software currently available for Windows, MacOsX, and Linux.
• it is written in Java, thus potentially working on all kinds of systems. For not already available systems, few native third party modules are mandatory (especially ffmpeg for video handling) and need to be properly installed and configured.
• it is inspired by the multi-platforms open-source kdenlive software, but shares no code with it.

Non-linear editing principle

Original input picture and video files are never changed/modified on disk.

Output picture or video files are always written only once (with no intermediate temporary files produced) at the final rendering time. Knowing that compressed file formats like JPG, MP3 or MP4 are always damaging the result in some ways, writing the output files only once ensure the best possible quality on the result.

Input files may be in heterogeneous formats, and may be processed in a higher resolution than the final rendered result. Knowing that all image modifications (resize, translate, rotate, etc) are damaging the results in some ways, processing them in a higher resolution ensure the best possible quality on the result.