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

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Post by culi »

chupapimunyenyo wrote: post #77
flaburgan wrote: post #73

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Did you try Shotcut? https://www.shotcut.org/ I had the same bad experience than you with Pitivi, Openshot and KDEnlive. Then I discovered shotcut and I was finally able to work. And it's FLOSS.

I tested many open source video editors and shotcut was the best compared to the rest. It has a lot of (basic) features that are missing in other editors

How does it compare to Kdenlive? I'm not an editor and also looking into floss video editors now. From what I see the most popular are:

  1. Kdenlive
  2. Avidemux
  3. Openshot
  4. Shotcut
  5. Olive Video Editor
  6. PiTiVi
  7. Cinelerra

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

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Post by Zambyte »

Dalewyn wrote: post #36
Racing0461 wrote: post #31

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> After a day of playing with the free version of Resolve in 2017 I gave BlackMagic some cash for a license & capture card for audio I see you've came to the same conclusion i did years ago. I look at it not as paying for software, but buying my time back at this point. Linux "open source"/free professional software seems to lack the Je ne sais quoi needed to make it worthwhile. It works, but the software is in the "…

There is an old saying: "Time is money." When you buy something, you are exchanging your money to obtain someone else's time. In this case, time that someone else spent to make sure a program works . The F in FOSS stands for free, so nobody is under any obligation to spend their time so you don't spend yours.

> The F in FOSS stands for free, so nobody is under any obligation to spend their time so you don't spend yours.

This is why I really dislike the term "FOSS". It's both redundant and erroneously misleads people to thinking things like this. Free Software can absolutely be developed under contract, in which case yes, you are entitled to the developers time under the terms of the contract.

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

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Post by Zambyte »

Dalewyn wrote: post #69
Qem wrote: post #66

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If Micro$oft keeps enshittifying their OS at current rates, I bet a lot of people will get fed up and jump ship to Linux after one or two more windows releases. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Windows 11, for all its faults, enables me to do the things I want to do on a computer. Likewise Android, and to a lesser degree even iOS and MacOS I admit. Linux however demands me to do the computer , it doesn't enable me to do anything because I'm too busy doing computer bullshit. This isn't necessarily surprising, since the goal of Linux (more accurately FOSS) is to use FOSS and isn't concerned about what I need/…

Which decade was the last one you used GNU/Linux in?

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

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Post by franky47 »

sofixa wrote: post #78
Almondsetat wrote: post #67

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You do know that you can just write gibberish in the download form, right?

You never know, some vendors send you the download link / license file via email, so at least that part needs to be legit.

That's what I thought too, but it's just a datawall, the link is available right after submitting.

So go ahead and John Doe it.

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

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Post by Nihilartikel »

Aerroon wrote: post #48
dharmab wrote: post #35

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The free version of Resolve is so good. I looked for a reason to pay them- nope, free version did literally everything a non-professional would need. And they even have free downloadable lessons on how to edit - not just use their editor, but edit in general- on the website.

Last time I looked at it the free version didn't use your GPU for playback during editing. Has it changed since then?

I did some semi-serious work in Linux on the free version earlier this year. Performance was pretty good, and I believe that it did use the GPU.

The only big annoyance for me was the lack of a h265 codec. I had some FFMPEG shell scripts for the final exports, but it was a pain and I eventually paid for the full version, which I am very happy with considering it is a lifetime license. Some premium features like speech transcription, where you can select a video segment by simply selecting dialog from a text box, were a big time saver too.

With my last editing experience being Adobe Premiere in the early 2000s, Resolve was simply amazing.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Aerroon wrote: post #48
dharmab wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The free version of Resolve is so good. I looked for a reason to pay them- nope, free version did literally everything a non-professional would need. And they even have free downloadable lessons on how to edit - not just use their editor, but edit in general- on the website.

Last time I looked at it the free version didn't use your GPU for playback during editing. Has it changed since then?

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

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Post by brettermeier »

gorlilla wrote: post #68
29athrowaway wrote: post #25

It is a user interface that is usable and discoverable to a reasonable extent. But beautiful? come on.

Beauty has always been a subject of the eye of the beholder. Ie, it's very much subjective.

It just looks like every other app made in the last 5 years or so...

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

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Post by ho_schi »

aleb wrote: post #59

Hello everybody, a Pitivi maintainer here. Some random thoughts, while I might have the attention.. I think when one considers a foss video editor, they might look into advanced features they need, if any, on how the app looks/integrates with everything, and not the last on how sustaining is the development. The needed features and look are personal and are what they are, so let me comment on sustainability of the "c…

> "Stability" is lacking in video editors because none are written in Rust.

I’ve doubts about this statement.

PS: Pitivi is implemented in Python.

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

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Post by sofixa »

vik0 wrote: post #80
sofixa wrote: post #78

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You never know, some vendors send you the download link / license file via email, so at least that part needs to be legit.

Just use a temporary email from some temporary email generator like https://temp-mail.org/ (use an AdBlock, I'm sure the site is littered with ads, but I wouldn't know cause I use uBlock)

Those are often blacklisted though, same as any mails on free TLDs.

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

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Post by raudette »

vindarel wrote: post #43
Venn1 wrote: post #26

I have been editing my podcast and guides with NLEs on Linux for the past decade. Kdenlive, OpenShot, Olive, Cinelerra, Blender and Pitivi all lack one key feature. Stability. You can lose a staggering amount of work between auto saves. After a day of playing with the free version of Resolve in 2017 I gave BlackMagic some cash for a license & capture card for audio. The early versions lacked ALSA support. Editing ses…

I spent dozens of hours in kdenlive since last year with 1 well-identified crash. The situation might have drastically improved since 2017?

I have used kdenlive for a dozen videos over the last 5 years - my use case, taking 15 minutes of footage down to 2-3 minutes, syncing video with voice over, building product demos, tutorials. It has been solid, on Windows and Linux.

When my youngest was 10, she worked with OpenShot and Kdenlive, and settled on Kdenlive on Windows - probably edited 20 videos of hours of Roblox footage down to 2-3 minute videos, syncing characters activity with music, voice over, etc... It was pretty cool - it worked well for her.

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