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Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by nigrioid »

petepete wrote: post #16
rglullis wrote: post #14

Earlier 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.

It's designed for a touchscreen like everything else. Apart from cell phones and special-purpose kiosks, nothing else should be a touchscreen.

I don't understand why everyone keeps trying to make it work. It's not what anyone wants.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by nigrioid »

randomsearch wrote: post #20
n3storm wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"nothing" may be too much. But if very basic components like file choose and file save dialog are incredibly painful to be used with buttons scattered through all window corners (fitts law anyone?) then "nothing" starts resounding in your mind. https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_imag... You can find another control at bottom left to choose file codification or whatever. Font select dialog: https:…

The non-standard and objectively poor positioning of the buttons is fascinating. What was the logic behind this? It seems to me that designers are much less likely to give their time for free to a software project than programmers. Is that why OSS suffers from problems like this? A junior UI designer would never make these kinds of decisions. I can understand why designers wouldn’t work for free. What I don’t underst…

I think it's deliberate sabotage to prevent the year of the Linux desktop.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by timonoko »

You just cannot beat Cinelerra. Occasionally I try to use some heavily advertised one (like Kdenlive or Pitivi) but immediately realize you cannot "Generate Keyframes While Tweaking". This is essential.

Cinelerra has been splitted to two^H^Hthree but only Cinelerra CG seem to work.

Those who remember old-time Cinelerra can be amazed with the render-list of 20, which all seem to work. In the olden golden times you just made big MJPEG and used FFMPEG for coding.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by schaefer »

harvie wrote: post #29

I 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. https://www.blender.org/

Does anyone have any favorite resources/tutorials for learning and using Blender solely as a video editor?

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by dpwm »

harvie wrote: post #29

I 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. https://www.blender.org/

I came to say the same thing. The video editing features were very usable in Blender in 2015. Given the open short movies they do are used to drive development, I would be surprised if the video editing hasn't been improved since.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by harvie »

schaefer wrote: post #34
harvie wrote: post #29

I 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. https://www.blender.org/

Does anyone have any favorite resources/tutorials for learning and using Blender solely as a video editor?

I've learned basics from youtube. First you have to switch blender to video editing "workspace". This opens the internal non-linear video editting GUI, which makes things little bit more obvious.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by kamranjon »

For those looking to actually edit video professionally on Linux you can’t really beat the free version of Davinci Resolve. Over the past 5 years it has become an incredibly competent non-linear editor alongside being the industry standard for color grading. I’ve honestly tried everything under the sun on Linux for video editing and nothing beats it. If you’re looking to stay open source I think blender is starting to become more competent but still a bit of a task getting it setup for doing serious NLE video work.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by harvie »

dpwm wrote: post #35
harvie wrote: post #29

I 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. https://www.blender.org/

I came to say the same thing. The video editing features were very usable in Blender in 2015. Given the open short movies they do are used to drive development, I would be surprised if the video editing hasn't been improved since.

Yeah... i beleive the blender 3 got rid of that weird thing of using right mouse button for everything and went with some more sane default settings which prefer left button for basic operation.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by andybak »

My problem is that I don't need this right now but I will want it at some point in the not too distant future.

Finding it at that point is fairly tricky. I have too many bookmarks. Google results for"free video editor" are polluted with junk.

And the name - "Pitivi" is not something I will ever remember. I still can't remember the name of the "online drawing app" that I use quite a lot!

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by password4321 »

andybak wrote: post #39

My problem is that I don't need this right now but I will want it at some point in the not too distant future. Finding it at that point is fairly tricky. I have too many bookmarks. Google results for"free video editor" are polluted with junk. And the name - "Pitivi" is not something I will ever remember. I still can't remember the name of the "online drawing app" that I use quite a lot!

You're starting your search in the wrong place!

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=video%20editor

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