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

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Post by CharlesW »

ho_schi wrote: post #88
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.

> I’ve doubts about this statement.

I assume this is very dry sarcasm, because .

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

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Post by suby »

flaburgan wrote: post #73
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…

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 don't edit videos too often, but Shotcut is what I use. I'll be trying out Pitivi because I'm not quite happy with it, it crashes quite a bit.

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

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Post by Almondsetat »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just try once to check if they send the email?

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

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Post by HeckFeck »

belugacat wrote: post #38
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 "…

A lot of open source projects suffer from “pet project” syndrome. Some maintainers have very strong opinions about how/what things should be done regardless of actual user demand or feedback, and there’s no one with the power to rebuff them because the product owners deciding what to implement and the engineers doing implementation work are one and same. Commit right makes might. In a (healthy) company, you have PMs…

> any designer who attempts to help and improve things finds themselves ignored, with no means to actually carry out any decision, and walk away soon after.

Ah yes, remember how long it took before image thumbnails appeared in the GTK file picker? Finally in 2022, but that was after countless forks and patches submitted that implemented them.

https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...

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

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Post by latexr »

diggan wrote: post #71
animex wrote: post #53

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...but it asks for all your identifying information so their sales team can email, phone, snail-mail solicit you to upgrade...until their shit gets hacked and then they are paying out a multi-million dollar privacy settlement/fine :/

There is a link in the bottom right or left of that form that allows you to download without registering.

And for macOS it’s on the App Store, so no forms.

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

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Post by 0x0203 »

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…

Does Resolve work on non-nvidia GPUs? Last few times I've tried to run Resolve, it claimed to not support my AMD Radeon video cards.

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

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Post by dharmab »

Nihilartikel wrote: post #85
Aerroon wrote: post #48

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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…

Similarly, I use Shutter Encoder as an early stage of my pipeline to convert to less painful codecs.

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

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Post by CyberDildonics »

Qem wrote: post #66
Racing0461 wrote: post #47

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Can you guys lemma know when is the year of the linux desktop? I wanna add it to calcurse.

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

People have thought the same thing with every version of windows, a word made up by a blogger last year isn't going to change that.

Linux's interface is still archaic compared to windows 7 unfortunately.

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

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Post by sbuk »

Zambyte wrote: post #83
Dalewyn wrote: post #69

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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?

It’s getting better, and with more people working with browser based tools the underlying OS is becoming less relevant. That said, the Gnome folks do seem user hostile. And I get that most Linux distro users like to tweak their config (part of the joy of their experience), it does lead to choice paralysis for a lot of folks. Add that hardware support can still be hit and miss (I concede that it has improved massively), it’s still not the computing panacea that the more enthusiastic and vocal proponents would have you believe. Likewise, neither are macOS or Windows panaceas, nor are they as repugnantly shit as those same folk would like to tell you either.

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

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Post by Qem »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #98
Qem wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

People have thought the same thing with every version of windows, a word made up by a blogger last year isn't going to change that. Linux's interface is still archaic compared to windows 7 unfortunately.

For me their high point was XP. It's downhill since then, in terms of dark patterns and user hostility.
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