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Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface
- ecocleanse104 3y ago[dead]
- j45 3y agoLooks 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.
- dgreensp 3y agoYes, 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.
- j45 3y agoFree can run on many OS'
- foxylad 3y agoDoes anyone have experience of both Pitivi and Openshot?
- em-bee 3y agoi 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.
- kmoser 3y agoUnfortunately the videos on the showcase page don't play on Firefox or Chrome (Windows): https://www.pitivi.org/showcase/ https://www.pitivi.org/showcase/
- renewiltord 3y agoUnfortunately, 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.
- ReactiveJelly 3y agoI 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?
- GiorgioG 3y agoTry DaVinci Resolve
- th0ma5 3y agoOnly works on like RedHat? No other Linux
- knifie_spoonie 3y agoI've successfully run it on KDE Neon (Ubuntu based)
- atoav 3y agoHad no problems running it on kubuntu 22
- amarshall 3y agoOnly officially supported on RedHat, perhaps. Works well on many other distros (I run it on NixOS).
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoIt runs well on Arch.
- jszymborski 3y agoWill have to give this a shot. I've been using kdenlive for some small things and it's been pretty great but this looks very cool
- jfaulken 3y agoThe website works really hard to not tell you what platforms it runs on.
- whywhywouldyou 3y agoIf 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.
- em-bee 3y agoi have used it. it is easy to learn. certainly no worse than the alternatives. i get your criticism. but i see that very often. most projects just don't know how to present their apps in a good way. it seems like we are trying to describe apps in ways that we think non-tech people would expect, but we are failing.
- tyiz 3y agoIt Looks like a Camtasia ripoff imho.
- erremerre 3y agoCamtasia has a great interface, so not surprised that it is trying to copy it. However just by the look of the screenshot, I can see plenty of features in camtasia 6 that are not present in Pitivi.
- hulitu 3y agoThat was also my impresion. The first thought: where is the menu. Maybe this little "..." thrown on the (supposed) title bar. No screenshots, gray on gray, no system requirements page, no easily to find instalation instructions. No mention of which GTk version it needs.
- ReleaseCandidat 3y agoThe part about "clean codebase" doesn't really help raising confidence either ;).
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- thanhannam 3y agoIt’s a shame GNOME doesn’t invest in it as much as KDE does in Kdenlive. Really liked its approach at first, but now still nowhere near truly usable.
- visnudeva 3y agoHave you tried KDEnlive? I believe it is the best open source video editor on Linux, it is now combined with AI to auto generate subtitles!
- 29athrowaway 3y agoIt is a user interface that is usable and discoverable to a reasonable extent. But beautiful? come on.
- mips_r4300i 3y agoIt's all relative to its contemporary FOSS applications, and it may well be beautiful compared to some of those :)
- gorlilla 3y agoBeauty has always been a subject of the eye of the beholder. Ie, it's very much subjective.
- brettermeier 3y agoIt just looks like every other app made in the last 5 years or so...
- Venn1 3y agoI 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 sessions can last 8 to 10 hours and I can't remember the last time it spite-crashed. Granted, this doesn't prevent me from mindlessly tapping Ctrl+S every few minutes.
- __mharrison__ 3y agoResolve is amazing. I also tracked pitivi and Cinelerra for years. Really hard to beat the free version. However, the studio version paid for itself quickly.
- Racing0461 3y ago> 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 "uncanny valley" so to speak compared to polished Mac/Windows paid professional software.
- Dalewyn 3y agoThere 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.
- hn_acker 3y ago> The F in FOSS stands for free, so nobody is under any obligation to spend their time so you don't spend yours. Your conclusion generalizes to no-charge software, not to all FOSS. The "free" in FOSS stands for free software, meaning free as in freedom rather than free as in price. If a program is free software [1] then a user of the program can read the source code, modify it, and distribute (including sell) unmodified and modified versions of the program/code. A user who lacks the program or the code isn't entitled to the freedoms but can get the software from someone else who has it. Developers of free software can charge for it. One way of making money from free software is charging for access to the developer's server. Another way is charging for more expansive user support. (Alternatives to charging for the software itself include requesting donations and selling physical merchandise.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
- inslee1 3y agoI just used Pitivi recently to cut something and quite liked its straightforwardness. The only thing I don't like is the lack of preview monitor so I can work with raw clips before bringing them into the timeline but for quick cuts, it's a great tool.
- mmwelt 3y agoDoes anyone know how it compares with Shotcut[1]? It's free, open source, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux. I've been a happy user for a while. [1] https://shotcut.org/ https://shotcut.org/
- hulitu 3y ago> Built atop the giant shoulders of the industry-standard GStreamer multimedia framework, "Never" heard about it. Now seriuosly, if they would have said ffmpeg, ok. But gstreamer ?
- antics9 3y agoI do not find Pitivi stable, or beautiful. Blender is easy to use if you want to start with basic editing. https://youtu.be/U4WlgU1I2Jg?si=etEsTOeCnAeKV-wL https://youtu.be/U4WlgU1I2Jg?si=etEsTOeCnAeKV-wL
- aleb 3y agoHello 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 "competing" video editors: - Shotcut's dev said a few years ago in an interview that he gets enough money out of the ads on the website. - Openshot's Jonathan, last I checked in the corona time on the website was also getting a few thousand USD per month, from donations. - KdenLive last I checked a few years ago had a nice active team(!). I'm sure if you manage to submit a proper crash report they'll fix it. :) - Olive's dev is very ambitious, good luck to him! - Blender's integrated video editor looks solid! - Pitivi's team shifted focus on GStreamer or away, but we always gathered ourselves to mentor each year 2-3 GSoC students. Most of the development for a good number of years has actually been done by GSoC students. A significant effort went into making their job easier, code reviews(!), merging, infra, maintenance. Two years in a row, groups of students from UNL Nebraska worked on awesome small features and enhancements. Behind the scenes, Igalia and other GStreamer contributors are doing heavy work on GStreamer. Thanks to all, you're awesome! :) Now Pitivi.. like some of the others, has it's place. It's the only video editor based on GStreamer. GStreamer is here to stay, and so is Pitivi―at least until another video editor based on GStreamer and written in Rust (read "stable") pops up, you never know. Pitivi is the only video editor built on GTK, we get quite some help from the community with the GitLab issue tracker and the website infra. We're not GNOME but yes we are close. We spent two individual GSoC internships to port Pitivi to GTK 4, but we're not there yet. Blame it on us. It'll get there at some point, but I don't think we'll do a third internship, so I think we'll most likely skip GSoC next year altogether. "Beautiful" is not measurable, so if we say that "it's beautiful", it's not an absolute truth. You don't like it -> see "competition" above. Let me mention we did stay away from context menus. :) "Marketing" will be needed when we want to do a(nother) fundraiser, but we're not there yet. The only marketing we might want to do is to developers and people who might be interested in joining and investing in the community. Maybe you have tips about that! Also regarding marketing, we don't have yet packages for Windows and Mac. I think all the others do. "Stability" is lacking in video editors because none are written in Rust. Cheers and have fun editing with your favorite video editor! I'll come back to check the replies next Monday.
- timonoko 3y agoIt has keyframe curves just like Cinelerra! Most other editors that these n00bs revel about are just ffmpeg with sugar-coated interface. No factual added functionality.