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PiTiVi 0.13.3 released

From:  Edward Hervey <bilboed-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w-AT-public.gmane.org>
To:  pitivi-pitivi <pitivi-pitivi-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f-AT-public.gmane.org>, gstreamer-devel <gstreamer-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f-AT-public.gmane.org>
Subject:  [PiTiVi] [ANNOUNCE] PiTiVi 0.13.3 "... we shall never (sur)render"
Date:  Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:19:43 +0200
Message-ID:  <1252754383.2317.19.camel@putamadre>
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This mail announces the release of PiTiVi video editor 0.13.3 "... we
shall never (sur)render".

PiTiVi is an open source video editor, written in Python and based on
GStreamer and GTK+.

More information in the attached release notes, as well as on
http://www.pitivi.org/
To file bugs, please go to
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=pitivi

0.13.3 Release "... we shall never (sur)render"
-----------------------------------------------

The PiTiVi team is proud to announce the third release in the unstable 0.13
PiTiVi series.

Due to its dependency on GStreamer, The PiTiVi team strongly recommends users have
all official latest gstreamer libraries and plugins installed for the best user
experience.

Title is from a quote by Winston Churchill "We shall defend our island, whatever
the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing
grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the
hills; we shall never surrender."


* Features of this release
 * Fix rendering failures
 * UI beautifications
 * Switch to themeable ruler
 * Speed optimisations
 * Show the project name in the window title

* Requirements

 * gstreamer >= 0.10.24
 * gst-python >= 0.10.16
 * gnonlin >= 0.10.13
 * pygtk >= 2.14.0
 * Python >= 2.5
 * zope.interface (http://www.zope.org/Products/ZopeInterface)
 * setuptools (http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools)
 * pygoocanvas (http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas)
 * dbus and HAL for capture support


* Contributors

    39  Alessandro Decina
    32  Brandon Lewis
    22  Edward Hervey
     2  Hendrik Richter
     2  Jorge González
     2  Michael Terry
     1  Antón Méixome
     1  Claude Paroz
     1  Daniel Nylander
     1  Petr Kovar

* Download

  PiTiVi source tarballs are available on gnome FTP:
   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pitivi/0.13/

  See the website for distribution-specific packages.

* Information and Feedback

 * Information for users and developers can be found on the PiTiVi website :
     http://www.pitivi.org/
 * Comments and feedback are welcome.
  * Mailing-list : pitivi-pitivi-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
  * PiTiVi bug-tracker : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=pitivi

* Bugs Fixed

 * 520653 : pitivi.desktop fixes and more
 * 575311 : clips appear to be duplicated at high zoom levels when the timeline cursor is near the
edge
 * 576576 : not possible to add clip at end of timeline
 * 584170 : Video Playback Fails, Without Program Crash
 * 590114 : rendering never finishes
 * 590153 : Zoom to optimum level when loading projects
 * 590203 : image hang during playback (auriga)
 * 590440 : Strings not marked for translation in check.py
 * 591571 : Removing a keyframe is not easy
 * 591616 : crashes when creating a new project after loading a project
 * 591617 : regression: centering on playhead when zooming broke
 * 593736 : play button is empty
 * 594114 : Sound curves not taken into account when rendering
 * 594311 : Clicking the timeline leads to a TypeError
 * 575975 : project-centric window title
 * 582363 : huge tabs the size of a hallway
 * 594181 : playhead/seeking broken by latest changes to factory cache in singledecodebin
 * 594396 :  " save as " confuses pitivi; subsequent saves are on the original project file
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PiTiVi 0.13.3 released

Posted Sep 18, 2009 11:28 UTC (Fri) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]

It's worth mentioning that I was able to edit a few videos in this version. And the new ripple-tool (IIRC you have to hold Shift while draging) makes it usable for bigger things and faster editing. However, it's got a bug, but still, this is a lot better than any other video editors I've tried.

Cinelerra is still king when using formats it doesn't crash with (so can't use my Nikon D90-files, but DV is fine), but PiTiVi is really coming along nicely.

PiTiVi 0.13.3 released

Posted Sep 18, 2009 12:13 UTC (Fri) by cantsin (guest, #4420) [Link]

The MJPEG video of the D90 is just fine for Cinelerra. Perhaps your machine is too slow to play it back in the timeline? Audio can be a problem though, so I recommend to preprocess D90 videos for Cinelerra as follows:
ffmpeg -i DSCxy.AVI -vcodec copy -acodec pcm_s16be -ar 48000 DSCxy.mov
For other, more demanding HD camera formats like h264/AVCHD, ffmpeg and the community version of Cinelerra now support Avid's DNXHD intermediate codec. This makes 1080p AVC video editable in Cinelerra:
ffmpeg -threads 8 -i input_file -vcodec dnxhd -b 185M -acodec pcm_s16be output_file.mov

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