Cinefx
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| Developer: | Silversoft |
| License: | Open Source / Free |
| User Rating: |    (60 votes) |
| Offical Website: | www.cinefx.org |
| Platform: | Mac, Windows, Linux |
Cinefx Review
Cinefx is a brand new free video editing for Mac. On February 2009 Jahshaka developer announced that the jahshaka project has been reinvented as Cinefx. Jahshaka is now Cinefx, released under the GNU General Public License. Cinefx is integrated new features and it is a suite of cross platform media playback, encoding, visual effects and editing digital content creation tools.
The program is available for multiple platforms including Mac OS X, Linux and Microsoft Windows. The project is completed yet but download page link is already provided. Since Cinefx does not available yet, you can also download Jahshaka at its official website.
Cinefx Highlight Features
- Variable frame rate control
- Real-time aspect ratio control
- Full audio support (including audio only tracks)
- Real-time hardware based pan and zoom
- RGBA color channel views
- A & B media playback channels
- Dynamic edit points stored in the database
- Dynamic thumbnail generation
User Experience with Cinefx Software
To add more useful information for other users, if you ever experience using the Cinefx program, I encourage you to write a short review about your experiences with software and share it in the following section:
December 14th, 2009 11:53 am
How can you rate something that doesn’t even exist yet?
I mean, jahshaka is a soft-full-of- bugs-ware and its development, judging from it site, is kaput, finish, dead. There isn’t even a link there to the “new” cinefx site. So, what are you actually reviewing here?
The new non existing cinefx software,… or the dead and sadly never really functioning jahshaka video editor?
September 5th, 2010 2:28 pm
I would have to agree with the above review.
I decided to try the old Jashsaka project anyway though.
I turned to Jahshaka in hopes to find something like Adobe’s After Effects or Apple’s Final Cut. It seemed to be a perfect solution for somebody with little budget to spend on advanced video editing.
IT KILLED MY COMPUTER!!!
I use and Apple eMac G4, 700MHz, 315MB RAM, OS 10.3.9. According to some sites, this was plenty to run the Jahshaka 2.0. I downloaded it, and it installed beautifully. Unfortunately, it did not run, which is problem enough. About a day after grappling with it and trying to force it to work, I decided to remove it.
Oddly, the installer only put an alias in my application folder. I right clicked it and “Showed Original”. It turned up in a folder marked “bin”. Even more odd, I couldn’t search for the folder. After finding it again, I explored it and found the original Jahshaka and several console files, many marked with names like “CHROMA” and “VIDEO_EFFECTS”. So I deleted them all.
About five minutes later I tried to re- install Jahshaka and install T@b ZS4. None of the files would open, and I couldn’t eject the Jahshaka DMG. So I restarted the computer, only to find it wouldn’t turn on except for a console.
Evidentially, the Jahshaka installer installed the application in a forbidden system file folder necessary for the computer to turn on, that I normally wouldn’t be able to access. In deleting the contents of that folder, I prevented my computer from working.
Jahshaka is a complete failure. If it works for you, that’s perfect, I’m jealous. If you must try it, I would recommend installing it on a DMG or a blank jump drive. But personally, I would spend the money on Apple’s Final Cut, which I have used before and would highly recommend for anyone.
I am going to try and re-install my computer’s OS today. luckily, it is a mac, so I will be able to keep my files, or at the very least put them on an external.
November 23rd, 2010 6:34 am
Cinefx seems just as dead as Jahshaka. If you check the Cinefx site, the last news release was, as stated Feb 2009. Then look down the comments thread and it is chock full of spam. the site has been dormant for so long, so I wouldn’t ask anyone to hold their breath for Cinefx to appear. The Jahshaka project, while being a very exciting notion, never delivered, and was hamstrung by very defensive or poor communication denying very much in the way of being a community project. Cinefx appears silent. If anyone needs to edit on a budget, there are solutions out there. Blender is pretty good providing you can get source footage in the right format first, and proxy editing is offered which is a big help. I’m sure there are others, but in the end, it is probably more cost-effective in terms of time saved and features offered to spend out properly on FCP, Premiere or the like rather than need to be spending lots of wasted time on unnecessary work-arounds which comes with the territory of insufficiently developed software. Video is so demanding on hardware and software, so it helps to get tools that do the job with as little fuss as possible. I mean, what’s more valuable than time ?.