OpenShot 1.3.0 released [LWN.net]

OpenShot 1.3.0 released

Posted Feb 14, 2011 19:35 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Great! Looking forward to seeing it in Debian unstable.

By coincidence, I started playing with the various free software non-linear multi-layer video editors last night. I want to cut between various scenes of a person talking, and add some text overlay.

I haven't gotten very far but it seems that kdenlive and openshot are the two most promising, both of which are based on the MLT Framework.

My results with LiVES weren't great, but I might have been using it incorrectly.

I wanted to try Cinelerra but it's not in Debian unstable :-/

OpenShot 1.3.0 released

Posted Feb 15, 2011 2:52 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Already uploaded:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/openshot

Cinelerra used to be in Debian but no-one (including yourself) cared enough about it enough to keep it maintained.

OpenShot 1.3.0 released

Posted Feb 15, 2011 3:55 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Excellent! Got it.

That's a pity about Cinelerra. The production quality of the film Patent Absurdity was great, so I wanted to try it myself.

As for maintaining packages, I can't. As a (ex-)programmer, I really wish I had more time for tech stuff but software patents has me maxed out. I've had to learn to say "no" to needy projects. Software patents is a massive problem and almost no one's working on it. I got interested in 2003 and very few other people have, so I'm gonna keep focussing my time on that. But your comment is correct - everyone who asks for more has to first ask themselves: "what do I do?"

I'm really appreciative of the folk who do the packaging work for projects like Debian and gNewSense. I can't help directly, but I hope my indirect help on patent issues is appreciated. (More precisely, I'm not expecting appreciation; I know this is important, so this is what I'll work on.)

I'll keep focussing on software patents. http://endsoftwarepatents.org will make an announcement in the next month or two.

OpenShot 1.3.0 released

Posted Feb 15, 2011 4:57 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Thanks for focussing on software patents, fixing that problem is way more important than Debian packages for a random piece of software.

Thanks!

Posted Feb 15, 2011 6:05 UTC (Tue) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

A bit off-topic, and a mee-too, but *thank you, Ciarán* for the hard work you are doing. I sure do appreciate it.

There, had to be said.

Thanks!

Posted Feb 16, 2011 0:38 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Thanks for both comments.

I hope ESP will be expanding soon, so the week-to-week work should become more transparent.

OpenShot 1.3.0 released

Posted Feb 15, 2011 5:01 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

PS: if anyone wants to help out getting removed/new multimedia software into Debian, please join the Debian multimedia team. Most of the members seem to be focussed on audio stuff, we need people interested in video/animation to work on getting things like Cinelerra and Synfig (also removed, more recently) into Debian.

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia

OpenShot 1.3.0 released

Posted Feb 14, 2011 23:09 UTC (Mon) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048) [Link]

With Firefox 4 nighlies the video on their main page just gives "Awww, Snap! This video can't be played with your current setup. Please upgrade to a modern HTML5-compliant browser (links to Apple's website) or install Adobe's Flash Player"

Kind of a bummer. Looks like Safari is becoming the modern day IE6 it doesn't actually matter what the standards say, or what is actually interoperable web developers are going to build for safari and everyone else can be damned. :(