Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by prophesi » Tue, May 03, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

bachmeier wrote: post #99

prophesi wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that case you can just raise an issue in the repo https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/pitivi-web/-/issues?... But I also understand that the true beauty of open source is the entitlement of free work from devs on a project receiving less than 8 euros a month from donations.

> entitlement of free work from devs on a project Someone posted the project to Hacker News. A commenter pointed out that they didn't put the supported platforms on their website. That has nothing to do with "entitlement of free work". If the devs don't want anyone else discussing their work, they have every right to keep it private. If it gets posted to HN, it will be discussed.

> Responding "I just submitted the change, here's a link" would have been more reasonable.

This is entitlement to free work. Raising an issue is much more reasonable than an HN user submitting a change on behalf of another random HN user. I do understand that the OP wasn't asking for someone to do this for them, though, and not displaying supported OSes is a totally valid critique.

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

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Post by phendrenad2 » Tue, May 03, 2022, 7:33 PM UTC

ihateolives wrote: post #22

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.

Sure, it was once common practice to have a list of supported platforms on your homepage, but you have to excuse people for not knowing that. Most people just get their apps (including Linux apps) from an "app store" sort of thing.

That said, the download page is where I'd definitely expect something like this, and the download page is useless. It tells you that various Linux distros have Pitivi in their package managers (which ones? links?), and has a Flatpak download (what's flatpak?)

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

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Post by codethief » Tue, May 03, 2022, 11:57 PM UTC

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!

Having you considered using a personal knowledge base (e.g. Obsidian) to organize your bookmarks?

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

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Post by phendrenad2 » Wed, May 04, 2022, 12:46 AM UTC

isthisnametaken wrote: post #62

"No need to reinvent the wheel" Says yet another Linux video editor

I get where you're coming from. There are many Linux video editors already, and many of them could use slight improvements. If people contributes to those instead of going off and making their own project from scratch, it would benefit everyone. That's true.

But I think that it's impractical in reality. For various reasons, such as politics, differences in vision, BDFLs, death by committee, etc., many open-source projects find themselves reaching a plateau and stagnating. At that point, it becomes easier to just make your own competing project with the features you want, than try to fight to get your features added upstream.

I think that this, counter-intuitively, leads to the stagnant project improving, as the "competition" with new features helps un-deadlock whatever bureaucracy was preventing improvements.

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

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Post by sriku » Wed, May 04, 2022, 2:11 AM UTC

a2128 wrote: post #15

sriku wrote: post #6

Muvee is much simpler and quick to produce usable videos - https://www.muvee.com (disclosure: I used to work for muvee over a decade ago)

Their CDN certificate seems to have expired 3-4 months ago, which is a quite scary warning for a user to see when downloading an exe from the internet. No Linux download either it seems (Pitivi is a Linux program)

Thanks for that. I've been a mac user, so haven't downloaded it in ages now. I'll let them know about this. And you're right - it is indeed a scary warning to see when downloading an executable. They've been a Windows only shop since 2001 when it was started. The product to look for is "muvee Reveal Encore".

I pinged this 'cos the approach is very different from most editors especially from the perspective of what a user needs to know about video editing (much less with muvee). There are editing "styles" that you get to choose which will adapt whatever video/photos content you throw in and adapt it to the music track you supply. The styles have many parameters you can tweak too. Otherwise, it's a button to produce a video. The first time you use some media item, it'll analyze the audio & video .. which will take some compute time.

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

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Post by sriku » Wed, May 04, 2022, 2:12 AM UTC

bilekas wrote: post #23

sriku wrote: post #6

Muvee is much simpler and quick to produce usable videos - https://www.muvee.com (disclosure: I used to work for muvee over a decade ago)

It's also not free. The shop is also convoluted, its not clear what version you should even be buying. This might be a great case for the reasons behind the original OPs share.

The one is "muvee Reveal encore". The business edition etc come with media and the others are specialized apps.

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

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Post by sriku » Wed, May 04, 2022, 2:17 AM UTC

jraph wrote: post #13

sriku wrote: post #6

Muvee is much simpler and quick to produce usable videos - https://www.muvee.com (disclosure: I used to work for muvee over a decade ago)

It's not open source, for anyone wondering.

Only the (scheme based) scripting language on top of which the automatic editing system is built is open source - https://github.com/srikumarks/muse . However, it's editing and effects engine is programmatically accessible within the application though, so you can make your own styles and even write programs to make specific compositions in case you don't want to use the automatic features. Documentation here - https://srikumarks.github.io/muvee-style-authoring/index.htm... .

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

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Post by schaefer » Wed, May 04, 2022, 2:39 PM UTC

MrUnderhill wrote: post #47

schaefer wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

^^ This series is pretty great, and I've never seen it before. Thank you, Mr. Underhill