High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kino is a free software GTK+-based video editing software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The development of Kino was started at the end of 2000 by Dan Dennedy and Arne Schirmacher. The project`s aim is: "Easy and reliable DV editing for the Linux desktop with export to many usable formats." To date the program supports many basic and detailed audio/video editing and assembling tasks.