Subsections

- Video general purpose
- Image Sequences
- Audio general purpose

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CINELERRA-GG Internal Engine

FFmpeg is the default engine, but you can also use its internal engine, which is limited in supported formats but efficient and of high quality.

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Video general purpose

RAW DV
  supports the DV standard.
  Presets: dv
MPEG Video
  highly configurable. Extension .m2v.
  Presets: mpeg1, mpeg2
OGG Theora/Vorbis
  Open, easily configurable. Theora for video, Vorbis for audio.
  Presets: theora, vorbis

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Image Sequences

There are quite a few formats available. Note: even if CINELERRA-GG outputs fp32, exr/tiff values there are normalized to 0-1.0f.

EXR Sequence
  OpenEXR (Open Standard) is a competing film standard to DPX, but Linear type.
Ppm Sequence
  is RGB Raw.
Tga Sequence
  is RGB(A) compressed or uncompressed.
Tiff Sequence
  is RGB(A) or RGB(A)-Float with various compression types.
Jpg, gif Sequences
  lossy compressed and limited formats.

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Audio general purpose

AC3
  widely used multichannel standard (Dolby Digital). Format with lossy compression.
  Presets: ac3
Apple/SGI AIFF
  Created by Apple; is an uncompressed format (pcm type) or with 32/64-bit floating point compression.
  Presets: aif
Sun/Next AU
  created by Sun and used in Unix environment, now in disuse. It can be of pcm type or with lossy compression.
  Presets: au
Flac
  Open, lossless compression, very good quality.
  preset: flac
Microsoft WAV
  created by Microsoft. It can have 16-24-32-bit linear or float compression.
  Presets: wav
MPEG Audio
  Very widespread standard. Extension .mp3.
  Presets: mp3