Category: Pitivi
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I really want to show icons
Okay, so GNOME/GTK+ doesn’t show icons on buttons anymore unless they are part of a toolbar or you specifically request that they show up. The problem is that because of this, PiTiVi’s play/pause button would end up not showing anything at all. Thus, back then Alessandro inserted this piece of code to force displaying icons on all buttons…
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Dissent on Novacut
On Planet Ubuntu today, I’ve seen an interesting take on the Novacut project. You don’t often get to see someone have the guts to stand up and say these things.
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Automated multicamera clip syncing
Today, I merged a truly amazing feature that Benjamin M. Schwartz has been working on in the past few weeks in PiTiVi: alignment of clips based on waveform analysis. From commit aa68410…’s description: The auto-aligner shifts clips into the timeline so that their contents are synchronized. It works by analyzing the audio track’s volume as…
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The glorious history of FLOSS video editors
In case you have been living under a rock and have not seen my talk at LGM this year, you have probably missed this important piece of information: This image is now published in the contributing section of PiTiVi’s website (as if you did not have enough arguments already! What are you waiting for? Come here…
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PiTiVi and GES hackfest
The pitivi project will be having a hackfest at the Desktop Summit this year. Planning details should appear on this page (the exact time and location are still to be determined). Have a really cool feature you’d like to add but would like some help with? A complex UX/design issue you’d like to discuss? Want…
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Don't make me scroll
Let me tell you about a small usability improvement in Pitivi that might provide some inspiration to others. See, I hate scrolling. Unless it’s absolutely necessary and the dialog is bigger than my screen’s height or you expect to tile windows vertically, as an application developer you should avoid scrolling when possible. 2024 edit: a…
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Post LGM 2011
This is a late flashback of what happened last month when I attended Libre Graphics Meeting. Yes, that was weeks ago (procrastination, work and pitivi ate all my time) so I’ll keep this short. Hung around with great, passionate people. Had a couple of them “couch surf” at my place. Great conversations ensued. The LGM…
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PiTiVi pre-release
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,…
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See you at LGM!
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…
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Negotiating Performance
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…