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Originally posted by Charlie68 View Post
I remember years ago that Pittivi was the pre-installed video editor in Ubuntu, I highly doubt it was a version in development, otherwise they have a problem with development, since I speak of at least 10 years ago.
[/On Topic] : To me, Pitivi is the most promising video editor on Linux. Yes, I have had crashes and stuff with it, but it's the only one with a UI I like, and the compositing functions I need for my work are easy to use. To me, it's a potential Final Cut competitor, no less. Now that it's in a stable state, there is hope that feature parity will come.
Great job Pitivi team, I'm delighted by this release!Last edited by omer666; 14 October 2020, 12:59 PM.
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Originally posted by mike456 View PostI'm very happy with Kdenlive, which itself was updated some weeks ago.
But all I need is about 2 video lanes and 3 audio lanes to create transitions and add background noises or music.
I tried Pitivi some years ago, but somehow I stuck with Kdenlive - don't remember the exact reasons anymore.
However it's great that there are so many video editors in Linux. Pitivi, Kdenlive, Cinelerra etc. On Windows I wouldn't know of any free (not talking about open source) video editors which are as usable as any of the above tools.Last edited by baka0815; 14 October 2020, 10:37 AM.
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Hi! I'm a Pitivi maintainer. Thank you all for the fine comments! Let me ignore the ones about Kdenlive and reply to what's left:
Originally posted by zxy_thf View PostI'm really in doubt who is brave enough to be an early adopter of pitivi. When I was trying 0.995 It crashed everyday and may ruin my whole afternoon's effort.
Stability should be production applications' top priority, and unfortunately pitivi failed to meet this requirement.
Originally posted by finalzone View PostWhat are missing:
- Stabilizer for some shaking clips
- Text editor could include more typography effects (still unable to edit outlines, shadow)
Originally posted by arQon View PostTeams either build quality software from the start, or they don't. A team that has repeatedly shown it thinks releasing garbage is an acceptable way of working will never change that mentality unless it gets new leaders who believe otherwise. Without that it's just lip service at best, and DIStrusting it is the only sensible approach until the actions have been shown to match the words for long enough for such teams to earn some credibility.
It CAN happen, but it's rare that it actually does: once you have a culture of "meh, it's good enough" in place, it's VERY hard for a team to break out of it.
Originally posted by kuco View PostShotcut works best for my usecase. Pitivi and OpenShot were unstable and/or resulted in "crackling" audio. I'm still missing some Adobe-Premiere-Pro features, but I don't want to go back to dual-booting.
What are you missing from Adobe Premiere?
Originally posted by Leprechaunius View PostThis is ridiculous. Why do we need so many opensource video editors that do the same? Openshot, Shotcut, Pitivi, Kdenlive, Olive, Flowblade, Something Something...
Originally posted by ed31337 View PostOne thing that bugged me about Linux video editors was that none of them seem to support lossless video editing. Most of the time, I just want to cut out one part of a video that I liked and found worth saving. Doing this causes the content to get re-encoded in all of these video editors though.
Originally posted by Mike Frett View PostThese editors are too complex and busy for me, all those buttons are scary. I use Avidemux for everything.
Originally posted by linuxgeex View Post2 glaring errors / omissions I found when I tried the flatpak:
1) no way to set the default import duration of an image. This makes working with imported images extremely tedious
2) transitions only use linear time (no easing) and rounding errors in the compositing math. These lead to jarring transitions, which is very unpleasant. When your non-linear video editor can't perform a crossfade as smoothly as your web browser... ouch.
The preview also detached itself from the editor, and became a separate window which ends up behind the editor when you interact with it. Making that window always on top allows you to scrub, but each time you render the window is closed and re-opens, losing that property. That's a pretty big papercut.
2) Jarring transitions sounds bad. Will you please create a sample project to share with us so we can fix it?
The detached viewer - ouch! I've seen that before. Pretty please file an issue if you can reproduce.
Originally posted by Charlie68 View PostI remember years ago that Pittivi was the pre-installed video editor in Ubuntu, I highly doubt it was a version in development, otherwise they have a problem with development, since I speak of at least 10 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitivi...of_Ubuntu_appl ications
Thanks all for the interest and curiosity!
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Originally posted by ed31337 View PostOne thing that bugged me about Linux video editors was that none of them seem to support lossless video editing. Most of the time, I just want to cut out one part of a video that I liked and found worth saving. Doing this causes the content to get re-encoded in all of these video editors though. The result is a file that is not only inferior in quality from the original, since video compression is lossy, but also often turns out to be bigger than the full original video file! At that point, what's the point of editing the file in the first place?
When I searched around, I only came up with one lossless video editor, and it required electron or something. I passed on that.
Now I use ffmpeg command line options to cut my video files down losslessly. But ffmpeg from the command line is kind of mind numbing.
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Originally posted by ed31337 View PostOne thing that bugged me about Linux video editors was that none of them seem to support lossless video editing. Most of the time, I just want to cut out one part of a video that I liked and found worth saving. Doing this causes the content to get re-encoded in all of these video editors though. The result is a file that is not only inferior in quality from the original, since video compression is lossy, but also often turns out to be bigger than the full original video file! At that point, what's the point of editing the file in the first place?
When I searched around, I only came up with one lossless video editor, and it required electron or something. I passed on that.
Now I use ffmpeg command line options to cut my video files down losslessly. But ffmpeg from the command line is kind of mind numbing.
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Originally posted by ed31337 View PostOne thing that bugged me about Linux video editors was that none of them seem to support lossless video editing. Most of the time, I just want to cut out one part of a video that I liked and found worth saving.
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Now I use ffmpeg command line options to cut my video files down losslessly. But ffmpeg from the command line is kind of mind numbing.
Most distros don't want to package (probably because some built-in codecs are considered "non-free") it but there's always official Appimage or 3rd-party repositoriesLast edited by xAlt7x; 12 October 2020, 05:50 PM.
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Originally posted by jntesteves View Post
So, you're saying that a unstable version of Pitivi was... unstable.
Yesterday's release is supposed to be the first stable release of Pitivi. Hence the news post.
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Originally posted by Calinou View PostFor those looking for open source video editors, Olive is worth checking out as well: https://olivevideoeditor.org/
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Originally posted by zxy_thf View PostI'm really in doubt who is brave enough to be an early adopter of pitivi. When I was trying 0.995 It crashed everyday and may ruin my whole afternoon's effort.
Stability should be production applications' top priority, and unfortunately pitivi failed to meet this requirement.
Yesterday's release is supposed to be the first stable release of Pitivi. Hence the news post.
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