Pitivi is so unstable that Windows ME is jealous.
Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
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Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#22grumpy old man noises
If developers can't be arsed to mention on front page what platforms their product supports then I don't think they really know what "intuitive" means. They might be cool guys and nice people and all but interacting with users is not their strength.
Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#23Muvee is much simpler and quick to produce usable videos - https://www.muvee.com (disclosure: I used to work for muvee over a decade ago)
It's also not free. The shop is also convoluted, its not clear what version you should even be buying. This might be a great case for the reasons behind the original OPs share.
Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#24grumpy old man noises If developers can't be arsed to mention on front page what platforms their product supports then I don't think they really know what "intuitive" means. They might be cool guys and nice people and all but interacting with users is not their strength.
I agree. However, it was refreshing to find that it meant it was for Linux, which is the defacto OS to ignore in the "PC and Mac" world.
It's also not a bad exercise for Windows and Mac users to learn that the best way to determine this is to go to the downloads section and/or look for system requirements.
Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#25Project seems abandoned. No news on the site for over a year and no git tag releases for 11 months. Likely better off with a more active project like kdenlive.
Also Openshot and specially Shotcut.
Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#26Olive (https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/index.php) also looks promising, it has gotten quite a bit of praise from Youtubers who use Kdenlive.
Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#27grumpy old man noises If developers can't be arsed to mention on front page what platforms their product supports then I don't think they really know what "intuitive" means. They might be cool guys and nice people and all but interacting with users is not their strength.
That's the beautiful thing of open source.
It's a community effort: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/pitivi-web/-/blob/ma...
Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that an issue with GTK or the Gnome HIG?
Or the user? There's always a hypervocal minority in any a GNOME related thread claiming that GNOME 3 was a regression, it has too much padding, it's too slow, it takes too much memory, it doesn't allow you to configure something, etc etc etc. Meanwhile, every big distro chooses it and millions get on with it just fine.
The button layout in GTK dialogs makes essentially no sense from a UX perspective, because, yes, people read things left-to-right (in LTR languages), top-to-bottom, and the program flow should reflect that. Apart from that problem, buttons on top makes little sense for other dialogs due to the awkward mouse movements it forces. Mouse moves down, selects a file, maybe picks the file type (do I want a jay-peg or a jif?) and then... has to move all the way up again?
I'm mostly not in a direct line-of-fire for user complains due to Gtk/Gnome (but actually received some, mainly around, you guessed it, file dialogs), but the impact zone is basically next door. And it's not exactly happy noises and good smells coming out that door. This is from users who couldn't care less what the thingamajing is called and don't know or care if their Linux explorer is called Dolphin or Thunar. What they do notice is that they've got an OS upgrade from IT and now they're angry because two thirds of the UI are gone and the remainder makes less sense to them.
Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#29I prefer blender. It is brutaly packed with features, but still free and can get the simple job done. But you will not outgrow it...
It is 3D modeler, renderer, 2D painter. But it can even do nonlinear video editing/cutting. You can combine 2D video with motion tracked 3D scenes... Certainly worth learning the basics.
Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux
#30See also Kdenlive ( https://kdenlive.org/en/ ). I generally stick with the GTK/GNOME ecosystem but for my (admittedly quite limited) video editing needs I've found Kdenlive to be easier to figure out.
Not sure I used Piviti, but used Shortcut, Openshot and Kdenlive. Kdenlive wins hands-down in stability and least amount of UI glitches.
(I recall that these interestingly share the same video editing backend, just the integration is different?)