Comments on: Day 5 – 10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests

By: Sludge

Sludge — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:25:14 +0000

I’ve tried several linux video editors and so have my young teen kids. OpenShot is the first one that worked with no hassles….and has helped them see that they can do video editing on Linux without the stability issues they had with MovieMaker under XP. I’m willing to try PiTiVi again, but if it doesn’t have a feature set comparable to OpenShot 1.0…then I may have to wait awhile longer. In the meantime, I find OpenShot progressing quickly with excellent attention to bugs and issues. I hope it is included in the next Ubuntu.

By: David

David — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:12:57 +0000

OpenShot doesn’t use GStreamer but MLT. This means that a second whole multimedia framework would have to be included—and supported!—in the Ubuntu CD.

By: Tanner

Tanner — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:56:29 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Rene. However, I certainly haven’t been running KDEnlive on an inferior desktop (unless an AMD64 X2 5600+ with 2gb of RAM is now inferior…?). The stability and responsiveness issues may be solved by using a newer version than what came with Kubuntu 9.04. I’ll have to re-examine KDEnlive under Mandriva and see if the experience is better!

By: rene levesque-caline

rene levesque-caline — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:50:07 +0000

My wife and kids wanted something to replace the WIndows deafault movie maker when we switched and we found KDEnlive and havent looked back since.

My 8 yr old edits his skateboard falls on video on his 5 yr old laptop, it works fine on our 64bit desktop and even on my wife’s Dell Mini netbook.
We use KDE4.2 and now 4.3 on a variety of distros including Mandriva of course, Kubuntu and two others which change.

As for your problems running it under an inferior desktop, that has nothing to do with the software or its ease of use.

I would love to see a minimalist interface option to make it even easier for newbies and those that dont need more than the basics and for those who need more, give them a more complez layout.

KDEnlive isnt of the quality of Digikam, Gwenview and Amarok 2.2 yet but the past year has seen an incredible leap in functionality and its simple enough for Linux newbies to use.

Of course, video is still on perfect on Linux (webcams are hit and miss out of the box) and audio is an ALSA/PUlsating mess.
These areas need a lot of work to be able to make multimedia easy to use.

By: Odin Hørthe Omdal / Velmont

Odin Hørthe Omdal / Velmont — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:42:45 +0000

The latest PiTiVi releases is basically a rewrite of the whole code base. And all those 5 years most of the stuff was going on in making GStreamer better. They are still doing it, however, things are going very much quicker these days. And there are full time employees working on it AFAIK.

So although PiTiVi has been slow from before, I’m quite sure it’ll ramp up soon enough. With the SVN-version, I’ve even been able to edit a rather long video without headaches. And that’s something in the Linux video editor-world!

Lumiera will be the professional choice somewhere in the future, but I think PiTiVi fits better as a default. We’re targeting professionals (I help out as much as I can in the Lumiera project).

By: Chris Lees

Chris Lees — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:28:14 +0000

The first video editor I could actually use on Linux was Kdenlive, but it was unstable.

I tried Openshot briefly a couple of weeks ago and my donation brought its funds up to $200, but it seemed to have a video length limit that didn’t suit me, and there didn’t seem to be as many features as Kdenlive. If it’s got Chroma-key now though, I shall have to add the PPA and give it another whirl.

By: Ian M

Ian M — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:25:49 +0000

I think effort should be spent on maintaining the Linux port of VirtualDub – it’s a very commonly used program in Windows, and that’s one less app that people have to re-learn when moving across to Linux. Cross platform apps FTW!

(for those that don’t know, it’s GPL by the way)

By: noone special

noone special — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:13:12 +0000

Buy ifx's Piranha and forget about the issue. :)

By: npcomplete

npcomplete — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:57:49 +0000

I would also like to add that Blender VSE can perhaps be consider THE actual working (and maintained) alternative to Cinelerra, and the only OSS solution available to Linux I would consider to satisfy the prosumer and much of the professional market.

In addition, it has the unique advantage of being cross platform. Many windows users are also using Blender.

By: npcomplete

npcomplete — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:51:38 +0000

Actually I would like to add a hidden gem among the video editor choices here:
- Blender VSE (video sequence editor; part of Blender)

I would highly encourage you to research it. Stable, extremely feature rich and pro-quality. And unlike all the rest, has actually been used in real commercial productions!