Category: Pitivi
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Persistent tab states, render UX polish and other things
With some help from luisbg, I finally reworked and merged a 2-years-old patch of mine. It turned out to be less trivial than expected, because we had to change the settings backend to allow loading/reading configuration files at runtime for our dynamically-generated tab components. So, what the heck does this mean to you? Automatically saving…
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Lightworks is not anywhere close to open-source
I’ve seen everybody hail Lightworks as the messiah that will make all other open source video editors irrelevant. So far, I didn’t blog about this (because frankly, life’s too short to be pessimistic, and I was also quite curious as to how it would play out and wanted to give EditShare the benefit of the…
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How do you visualize grouping?
Here’s a tricky usability question: how would you represent the actions of grouping and ungrouping clips on a timeline? (Un)grouping is used for changing the way selections affect a set of clips. It allows you, among other things, to separate and remove the audio from the video of a clip. It is very hard to…
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Autohiding fullscreen toolbar, error dialogs and file format filtering
Here’s one of the reasons why I’m not exactly in a hurry to learn C. When you ask me to read through C code, this is what happens: No jokes. Even after simplifying and compacting the code, it’s still such a pain for me to navigate through C that I actually felt the need to output…
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YouTube considered harmful
This morning, there was a nice surprise waiting for me in my inbox: apparently Dragons Dream infringes “La Red”‘s copyright. Bullshit. My video does not infringe on anything. It is a pure mashup of Elephants Dream and Sintel. No other music, sounds or visuals were used. Yet, they claim that the visuals belong to La Red (whatever/whoever…
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Why you should be using GES
Thanks to our friends from Ubicast, there is a nice recording of the talk I gave with Thibault in San Diego. Unlike what the title says, this is actually not a case study 🙂 it is aimed at those of you who are wondering what GES is all about, why it matters, how it works, and…
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Ducknapping
Following up on Seif’s blog post, I would like to provide you with an update on our efforts to recover the missing duck. We’ve been in a very delicate situation lately. It turns out that a group of hacktivists kidnapped Duckie! They sent us this picture: As you can imagine, until now we refrained from…
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GUADEC talk video published
No no no, I said video, Not videos. Seems like even though I spent hours editing and rendering a single recording, I’ve still beat the GUADEC organizers when it comes to “time to publish” 😉 My “neko edit” also has good sound quality (from a dedicated USB microphone) and high resolution versions of the slides…
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What the duck?!
During the mini PiTiVi hackfest a Coruña, René and I fought valiantly to get our beloved video editor working through GObject introspection. It was much to my delight that Vivia Nikolaidou kindly lent me her beloved debugging duck (much better than debugging symbols!) to facilitate our efforts. She let it sit by my Thinkpad and…
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State of the Onion
You haven’t truly lived until you have seen nekohayo present at GUADEC. Still, it should be safer than the GNOME State of the Union talk.