PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

[Posted July 6, 2011 by corbet]

Linux.com has posted a review of PiTiVi 0.14. "PiTiVi is a GStreamer-based non-linear video editor (NLE) developed by members of the GStreamer project itself. That means it is often the first project to showcase new features, and last month's new release is no exception. The major new feature is support for audio and video filter 'effects' but there are usability and speed improvements worth examining, too."

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PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 6, 2011 22:03 UTC (Wed) by rbrito (guest, #66188) [Link] (3 responses)

I would love to try PiTiVi (especially now that I got a camera), but it doesn't work in my Debian installation:

http://bugs.debian.org/630633

This exact problem happens to me with two completely different systems, which means that other people may be experiencing it (perhaps nobody bothered to file a bug report?).

Anyway, can somebody recommend a good alternative?

Thanks.

PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 6, 2011 22:31 UTC (Wed) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link] (1 responses)

OpenShot Video editor
http://www.openshotvideo.com/

PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 7, 2011 0:00 UTC (Thu) by xxiao (guest, #9631) [Link]

I had to do some video editing and PiTiVi got the job done. Openshot had issues with FLV

PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 7, 2011 7:20 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Google found this:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630470

PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 7, 2011 12:37 UTC (Thu) by emk (subscriber, #1128) [Link] (4 responses)

PiTiVi is very nicely done, but as of earlier this week, it lacked many important features:

- No titles.
- No transitions.

Basically, all you could do was split video clips and splice them end-to-end. In the long run, I'd definitely love to use this very slick GTK application. But as it stands, it's just not ready.

The GTK application OpenShot offers transitions and titles, though the transition interface takes a few minutes to figure out. You can actually use it to produce typical home videos with a bit of work.

Currently, I'm in the process of switching over to the KDE video editor kdenlive, which seems more feature-complete than the other two.

PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 7, 2011 13:30 UTC (Thu) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link]

Kdenlive has notably improved with version 0.8. I use it for a couple shows I do on local public access (Boise, Idaho USA) and YouTube:
http://www.tvcycle.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThisIsAmbient

I was about to drop it because my 0.7 experience was so awful (massively unstable, audio issues) but 0.8 is good enough to keep me around.

I use the composite features on TV Cycle, which has three cameras on the screen at the same time for most of a typical show. Kdenlive has a bunch of numeric parameter controls available, which allows me to get exact placements easily.

Kdenlive is still far from perfect, but it is usable and getting better all the time. I expect to keep using it for the next couple years, anyway.

PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 7, 2011 13:49 UTC (Thu) by svena (guest, #20177) [Link] (2 responses)

You can do a limited number of transitions in PiTiVi, fade-in and out, and crossfading.

It's mentioned in the user manual, but isn't very discoverable in the UI. (Or maybe it is, and I'm just not used to working with video editors).

PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 7, 2011 14:49 UTC (Thu) by emk (subscriber, #1128) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, those are the most useful transitions by a long-shot. But I looked really hard for them a couple of days ago (using a PiTiVi build from the upstream Ubuntu PPA), and didn't find them at all.

OpenShot has some very nice title support: You can either edit titles using Inkscape, or just use one of the predefined SVG templates and plug in the text.

PiTiVi Video Editor Now Kitten-Friendly (Linux.com)

Posted Jul 9, 2011 8:09 UTC (Sat) by aleb (guest, #67592) [Link]

See the Transitions section in the user manual: http://www.pitivi.org/manual