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Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface

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Re: Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface

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Post by loufe »

GiorgioG wrote: post #8
ReactiveJelly wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was gonna ask that. Every video editor I've tried, even back to Windows Movie Maker, crashed frequently. I don't know why. ffmpeg is rock-solid. Modern CPUs are good enough that you can basically handle 1080p without touching accelerators. Multi-threading is not impossible to get right in C++. So why do they all crash?

Try DaVinci Resolve

Seconded, it is a seriously high quality product and free as in beer in the best way.

Re: Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface

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Post by whywhywouldyou »

If the product has to TELL you up front that it has a "beautiful and intuitive user interface", it likely doesn't.

And the Tour page has a screenshot of the application titled "Stunning Elegance", where it does a great job of mostly looking the same as any desktop app developed in the last 10 years -- full of shades of grey, plain, no menus.

As a cherry on top, it is described as "Easy to learn. Exciting to master", which is getting so far out there into marketing land that my spidey senses tell me to stay far away.

Re: Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface

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Post by em-bee »

foxylad wrote: post #3

Does anyone have experience of both Pitivi and Openshot?

i have used both for one project or another. but it has been a while. my main reason for trying different video editors was that some were not able to create videos from single jpg frames for a stop motion animation. but apart from that the editing of video streams worked well enough in both.

Re: Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface

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Post by em-bee »

renewiltord wrote: post #6

Unfortunately, when I last tried this a couple of years ago (I think), it crashed frequently. It could be my fault since I was using nouveau drivers.

i found pitivi quite stable when i used it a few years ago. i used it quite a while for various projects. i mostly had AMD and before that intel CPUs with onboard graphics and i always avoided nvidia though.

Re: Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface

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Post by j45 »

dgreensp wrote: post #4
j45 wrote: post #2

Looks nice. A quick packaging for windows and Mac could let non technical folks wanting to edit video easily adopt something like this. Maybe in the meantime a quick how-to install a virtual machine and edit within.

Yes, I get the impression it only runs on Linux? And we're supposed to infer that by the fact that it's "distro-agnostic" and sometimes the word Free is capitalized in the middle of a sentence. Because if you're in the right place, you're already running a Free OS.

Free can run on many OS'
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