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

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"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…

The positioning is not objectively wrong. Where do you get this from? Did you make tests with people who never used a PC before? Who are not biased? Or is this your opinion, which would be subjectively by definition.

UI usage is mostly learned.

Just to be clear, I don't think GTK is the perfect UI system. In my opinion, there is none.

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

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Incredible useless comment.

"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:…

I totally agree on flat design. Which is not something unique to gtk.

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

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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?

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

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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 t…

I have pretty modest video editing needs and have been using shotcut on linux. I'm aware of Davinci Resolve but had always assumed (for no reason other than few commercial developers do) they wouldn't have a linux version let a lone a free one. Thanks for the tip off!

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

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grumpy 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...

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

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grumpy 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...

The beautiful thing about open source is that a website doesn't mention the platforms it supports? Strange view.

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

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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?

The youtuber "Mikeycal Meyers" has a series of videos that I found very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDOGFxMJoxw

It's for Blender 2.8, but I found it mostly applicable for Blender 3 as well.

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

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That's the beautiful thing of open source. It's a community effort: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/pitivi-web/-/blob/ma...

The beautiful thing about open source is that a website doesn't mention the platforms it supports? Strange view.

the OP was asking for contributions rather than just criticism.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the beautiful thing of open source. It's a community effort: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/pitivi-web/-/blob/ma...

The beautiful thing about open source is that a website doesn't mention the platforms it supports? Strange view.

He was hinting that the original commenter could push for the change he wants to see himself and linked the page that would have to be edited.

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

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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…

Reason? i can only think like: what? space is not optimized! there are useless corners but all buttons at the bottom. also aesthetically it looks too heavy. let's visually balance everything moving every button to every unused corner space. yeah, looks great! Check done!

Now, let's get rid of all visual clues for actions/controls...

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