I have loaded cinelerra from rpmforge but I'm having a really hard time getting the avi to even show up in it.
I don't know cinelerra, and if you can believe, I don't have a single CentOS box w/ a desktop <heh> but I would presume you have to demux the audio and video into separate files as that is how most non linear nle's work...
Last time I heard of cinelerra, I looked at the docs and they looked very good.
jlc