Cinepaint...usefull?

[B-Twien Bytes]

Hello all,

Read about the program 'Cinepaint' awhile ago...any of you familiair with this program?
I downloaded it and tried to install it, but without good luck...

See the pic below...what do I need to do next to make the program work / install on my computer? I did try cinepaint.exe but it did not start the installation. The readme.txt file does not say a whole lot :(

[redwudz]

That looks like the 'Glasgow' version. It's a development tool version and not complete, and apparently mostly non-working. It doesn't install, just runs from the .exe. But read the 'BUGS.txt' file.

The original version says,

CinePaint runs on all popular flavors of Linux and on Mac OS X as an
X11 application. The Windows port of CinePaint is currently broken, sorry.

So it appears you need the Mac OS, or Linux. The Windows version is not completed.

[B-Twien Bytes]

Thanks, that explains a lot

I think my husband is going to have a BIG smile on his face today, because he sure is PRO Linux...

Redwudz, do you think the windows version is going to completed soon? My guess is not, if I look at the website and how much traffic is generated...

Any other 'similar' program I could use in between?

Thanks!

[redwudz]

From what I saw on their site, I doubt a Windows version will be completed any time soon.

I'm not sure if there is a similar program, what process are you wanting to accomplish?

[B-Twien Bytes]

Yeah, I doubt it too...I see an e-mail address on the website...I might send them an e-mail asking what is going to happen.

I would like to accomplish things as described on their website:

CinePaint is a collection of free open source software tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing. CinePaint is used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal, render repair, background plates, and 3d model textures.

[GTRBudda]

I haven't really used it, but I did get CinePaint 0.16 installed and running. It seems to require the GTK+ runtime to be installed first. I think that was version 2.0 for me, on WinME, but probably a different version for XP. Hope that helps.

[redwudz]

You can do that with a graphics program like Photoshop, but you would have to extract out the individual frames, process them and place them back in the video. Think of it this way: 30 frames per second X 2 hours of video=216,000 frames. Unless you really need to manipulate individual frames, or your video is quite short, it's a monumental task.

Most of the time you can use filtering to clean up a video and not have to resort to working on each frame.

Or if CinePaint is what you want, set up a dedicated computer with Linux installed. That would at least be faster than Photoshop. You can dual boot a existing computer with Linux on a separate partition and still keep your other OS installed. A earlier post about Ubuntu Linux might be worth looking into: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=328586&sid=04b0f5003075feb8bcd5f4e13ba242a9

EDIT: Actually, after looking at the CinePaint site again, they have a link to Grafpup that would allow you to run the regular CinePaint, at least for demo purposes, on a Windows computer. I might try that out myself.

http://www.cinepaint.org/