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Author: Jeff

  • PiTiVi pre-release

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    Since Thibault has not been re-added to Planet GNOME yet and we’re in a bit of a hurry (deadline is Tuesday), let me “retweet” a slightly edited version of his announcement: The whole PiTiVi team is pleased to announce a pre-release of the PiTiVi video editor. This pre-release contains the past 7 months of work,…

  • See you at LGM!

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    I’ll be giving an epic talk on Pitivi and video editing in Linux in general at Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in Montréal, this Wednesday from 17h00 to 17h30. Since it is the sequel to the 2009 talk, this one will probably focus less on technical aspects in order to avoid repeating myself, but those of you…

  • Pourquoi je quitte Ubuntu pour Fedora

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    La dernière fois que j’ai été utilisateur de Fedora à plein temps, c’était il y a plus de sept ans. Ubuntu fit son apparition en 2004, s’imposant rapidement comme distribution phare par sa promesse de gratuité (détruisant par le fait même le modèle d’affaires des distributions «commerciales» pour individus) et son centrage autour de GNOME.…

  • Voip.ms

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    J’ai été client de Callcentric pendant deux ans et, suite à quelques tests et vérifications, j’ai décidé le mois dernier de migrer ma téléphonie IP chez Voip.ms. Les raisons et avantages de cette transition: Ils offrent au client le choix entre les lignes téléphoniques “value” et “premium”. Comme le premium routing est tout de même…

  • Negotiating Performance

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    If you do more than basic video editing, you may have experienced those infamous “not-negotiated” errors, one of the most annoying current issues in pitivi. Users run into not-negotiated errors when there are transitions, gaps in the timeline, and effects that require compositing (such as the “alpha” filter) fail to work properly. Sometimes, if you keep…

  • On Cantarell

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    There was something bothering me with Evolution in GNOME 3 that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Turns out it was Cantarell, the official font for GNOME 3. While both the Droid family (Droid Sans/Serif/Mono) and Cantarell were “designed for on-screen reading”, I find Droid Sans to be much better than Cantarell for small…

  • GNOME 3.0's RAM usage

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    …is surprisingly low. Unlike what some people would make you believe, GNOME Shell & friends don’t eat 883 MB of RAM. As you can see below, baseline memory usage is under 120 MB… And you know what? That’s less than the amount of memory that GNOME 2.30 uses on startup on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (127…

  • Logiciel de montage vidéo cherche étudiants futés

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    Le Google Summer of Code 2011 est de retour! Comme par le passé, PiTiVi pourrait y participer en tant que projet GNOME ou GStreamer (ces derniers font tous deux partie des organisations de mentorat du SoC de cette année).   Tu es un étudiant passionné de montage vidéo et du multimédia en général? Voici une fantastique…

  • Cool video editor seeks ingenious students: PiTiVi and the Summer of Code

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    The 2011 edition of Google’s Summer of Code is here! As per previous years, PiTiVi may participate under the umbrella of GNOME and GStreamer (which are both mentoring organizations for this year’s SoC projects). If you are a student who loves video editing and multimedia in general, you have the tremendous opportunity to shape the…

  • On GtkSwitch

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    GTK3 includes the new switch button. Sadly, at the time of this writing, there seems to be no HIG recommendation for it yet so I’m left to guess what its proper use should or shouldn’t be. I’m all for choice/flexibility for developers, but what has been worrying me slightly in the new Control Center is the…