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Submission + - Pitivi Video Editor surpasses 50% crowdfunding goal, releases version 0.94

Submitted by kxra on Monday November 10, 2014 @02:10PM

kxra writes: With the latest developments, Pitivi is proving to truly be a promising libre video editor for GNU distributions as well as a serious contender for bringing libre video production up to par with its proprietary counterparts. Since launching a beautifully well-organized crowdfunding campaign (as covered here previously), the team has raised over half of their 35,000 € goal to pay for full-time development and has entered "beta" status for version 1.0. They've released two versions, 0.94 (release notes) being the most recent, which have brought full MPEG-TS/AVCHD support, porting to Python 3, lots of UX improvements, and—of course—lots and lots of bug fixes. The next release (0.95) will run on top of Non Linear Engine, a refined and incredibly more robust backend Pitivi developers have produced to replace GNonLin and bring Pitivi closer to the rock-solid stability needed for the final 1.0 release.

Comment Re:Very enthusiastic about that effort ! (Score 5, Informative) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @01:10PM (#46311495) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

I'd much rather have "everything crashing down" than having to debug an inconsistent state where multiple *processes* run and some silently crash .. GStreamer is multithreaded, and that brings us the benefits of parallel execution without the "advantage" that you describe and that I perceive as a drawback. Regarding hardware acceleration, a lot of work is being done by multiple industry players to bring it to GStreamer, it's indeed quite new but things are moving fast !

Comment Re:Linux mentality today (Score 1) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @01:03PM (#46311465) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

Read my reply a little higher please :)

Comment Re:Very enthusiastic about that effort ! (Score 1) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @01:02PM (#46311461) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

That's the status on freebsd : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/sho... , it's marked as NEEDINFO because we didn't yet take the time to try it out on that platform, but we of course are very interested in making Pitivi happen there as well !

Comment Re:Pitivi is such a POS (Score 4, Interesting) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @12:50PM (#46311423) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

Thanks for answering more kindly. Cinelerra's development looks like it's discontinued, and Pitivi's design makes of it the most promising open source video editing application in my very humble but slightly informed opinion :)

Comment Re:immature (Score 1) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @12:22PM (#46311263) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

Pitivi developer here, this kind of problems has not been reported to us, please file a bug report and come share your files on our irc, #pitivi on freenode. Freenode is a bit flaky right now, but bugzilla is working all right :)

Comment Re:Do not want. (Score 1) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @12:17PM (#46311213) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

Where did you read Pitivi was starting from scratch ? It has a 10 year history, is very active and based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is by far the most active open source multimedia framework out there !

Comment Re:Pitivi is such a POS (Score 3, Insightful) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @12:06PM (#46311157) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

Did you at least try the 0.9X series ? It has completelely and radically changed, and I'm not sure how calling it a piece of shit will help the discussion.

Comment Very enthusiastic about that effort ! (Score 5, Informative) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @11:33AM (#46310965) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

Disclaimer : I'm one of the Pitivi's developers, and I'm very excited about that campaign. We feel like Pitivi's technological choices (being based on GStreamer), and its large community make it the most promising open source video editing application out there ! I encourage you to visit our website for that campaign at http://fundraiser.pitivi.org/ , as we've put a lot of effort into explaining all this in details !

Comment Re:not a fan (Score 5, Informative) 79

by Mathieu_Du on Saturday February 22, 2014 @11:25AM (#46310927) Attached to: Open Source Video Editor Pitivi Seeks Crowdfunding to Reach 1.0

And that's why python is only used for laying out the user interface, and all the heavy lifting is done by GStreamer and gst-editing-services. I invite you to research that ;)

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