The Open Sourcerer

Author: Jeff

  • Surviving Git

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    Git can feel extremely unnatural to those who came from Bazaar. Only after a lot of advice from friends, the right tools and a few months of intensive usage did I feel confident enough to use it without fear. Many are probably in the same boat as me though, so I took a couple of…

  • PiTiVi GES spring sitrep

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    Now that the Internet is back to normal, here’s a status update on what I’ve been busy doing lately. You may remember my initial donation experiment last month where I presented the new realtime trimming preview feature—I was not kidding. It’s merged in the pitivi “ges” development branch now, with some additional improvements tacked on.…

  • GSoC 2012 and PiTiVi

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    Are you a student who wants to get involved in shaping the future of open source video editing? Are you looking for a friendly project providing stimulating challenges and a well-established codebase and expertise? Then consider applying for the Summer of Code programme to work on Pitivi or GES! See this page for the list…

  • Pourquoi j'ai quitté Facebook: des précisions

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    Il y a deux ans je quittais définitivement Facebook. Depuis ce temps ma vie s’en est trouvée significativement améliorée, mais on me questionne encore sur les raisons de cette décision. Chaque fois, on me regarde comme si j’étais autiste. J’ai pensé aujourd’hui mettre à jour le billet que j’avais posté jadis, mais comme l’explication risque…

  • Switching PiTiVi's main git repository

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    Due to public demand, the official main repository for PiTiVi is now git.gnome.org/pitivi instead of git://git.pitivi.org/git/pitivi.git This has many advantages: It reduces confusion. It prevents potential contributors from thinking we’re a dead project or something. We’re a killer project, that’s completely different. No need to manage two “official” repositories (one for development and one for translations)…

  • What the heck is this GES thing anyway?

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    “GES. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Unless you’ve been following the PiTiVi’s development very closely lately, it is often hard to imagine what GES does and how important it is to PiTiVi. I therefore wrote an explanatory page about it and updated the architecture overview…

  • Prévisualisation en temps réel du redimensionnement de séquences dans Pitivi

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    Ceci est une traduction d’un billet que j’ai publié avant-hier sur Planet GNOME. Je ne sais pas trop comment traduire « trimming », alors je me base sur le terme « redimensionnement » de la version française du manuel de PiTiVi (même si l’usage du mot sonne étrange). La question du « financement de logiciels libres complexes n’ayant pas de modèle…

  • Trim like a professional hair stylist

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    In my spare time this week I implemented one of my favorite missing features in PiTiVi: a live preview of what you’re trimming. No more fuzzying around and moving the playhead all the time to figure out if you cut your scene right. No more trial and error. Just pure, unadulterated productivity. HTML5 video below:…

  • Le SSD du pauvre

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    Un de mes amis possède encore son netbook Dell Mini 9. Or, il y a un an ou deux, le SSD bon marché à l’intérieur a rendu l’âme (même le BIOS voit le disque dur comme étant de capacité 0 MB). J’avais entretenu l’idée de ressusciter cet ordinateur pour un usage de serveur ou «media…

  • Y U NO GTK3 YET?

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    Some folks were probably wondering why PiTiVi is still using GTK2. Now you know: