Kdenlive 0.7.8 adds colour correction to Ubuntu

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Color correction is a really important topic in video editing. It starts with simple stretching of the tonal range if the brightness is not ideal, goes on with white balance to ensure that white remains white and not blue, and finally ends with creating looks which make your video look unique

Kdenlive 0.7.8  adds some awesome color scopes, used for displaying color information.  But in order to enjoy new features you will have to add a new ppa for Kdenlive stable series :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunab/kdenlive-release

Sunabs Notes : All packages are built against the standard KDE and standard FFmpeg in each Ubuntu version, so if you are using a backported KDE or backported FFmpeg, DO NOT USE THIS PPA or you will experience many problems.

P.S. : For users (knowing what they do!) who want to follow kdenlive development there is also a new ppa to track svn : ppa:sunab/kdenlive-svn (weekly build)
Use it to test kdenlive and file bug reports if needed on the mantis bug tracker. For this ppa same note as previous ppa : NO BACKPORTS.

Edit : FFmpeg recommendation
*for jaunty : a custom ffmpeg is included in my repositories (+libfaac) / webm unsupported
*for Karmic : a custom ffmpeg is included in my repositories (+libfaac) / webm unsupported
*for Lucid : use official Ubuntu repositories or the Medibuntu project repository "deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid free non-free" (+libfaac+amr) / webm unsupported
*for Maverick : use official Ubuntu repositories, an internal acc encoder is activated in ffmpeg 0.6 series.

Note 2 : Sunabs  kdenlive packages force installation of -extra ffmpeg libraries in order to maximize codecs support, this is an "ugly" packaging but it is more simple for newcomers.

Edit 2 : Frei0r 1.2.0 is packaged for Maverick and Lucid.