Category: Pitivi
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Logiciel de montage vidéo cherche étudiants futés
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…
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Cool video editor seeks ingenious students: PiTiVi and the Summer of Code
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…
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Searching your Media Library
Although my changes were implemented back in December, I had to wait until they were merged today to blog about them: searching the Media Library is now possible in PiTiVi git, which is a feature I wanted for a long time (it makes it much easier to deal with large amounts of footage in a…
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Reorganizing the wiki
Since there doesn’t seem to be much demand for video tutorials on “how to contribute to PiTiVi”, I have been thinking about how to reorganize the wiki. Indeed, a comment on my previous blog post made me realize how hopelessly messy our documentation for new contributors was. I pictured myself as a stranger to the…
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Community involvement
Although PiTiVi is a FLOSS project developed entirely in the open (that is, everything is public/transparent), I have been told that it still feels intimidating for potential new contributors. Believe it or not, I spend a lot of time thinking about that and smoothing out that process. Sometimes I still find myself a bit surprised…
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New project settings and rendering UI
It’s no secret that PiTiVi‘s “project settings” and “rendering” dialogs were huge, rigid, and, as Linus would have called them, stupid and ugly: …Until now, that is. Say hi to one of the most invasive and anticipated refactoring/set of bugfixes of the year: Brandon’s new templates/project settings/rendering system (which he blogged about recently [1] [2]…
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Importing from YouTube
We had implemented a working (only needed some UI polish) Youtube importer for PiTiVi: …but Youtube asked us to “bring [our] application into compliance with the ToS“, which roughly translates to “take it down”, because their API Terms of Service clearly forbids any kind of downloading. This situation, of course, annoys me deeply on a philosophical…
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Detachable previewer
I know, I know, it’s the third time I’m posting in three days, but a surprise feature was just merged out of the blue and I’m quite excited about it: you can now undock the previewer widget in PiTiVi (even while it is playing). It allows you to do something like this: Obligatory demonstration video…
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Improving project loading performance
When you load a project in PiTiVi, importing the clips into the “media library” (also known internally as the “source list”) is pretty fast, but inserting them in the timeline is painfully slow. So I whipped out my torture test project and spent some time profiling what’s going on using Python’s cProfile module (I talked…
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Startup Assistant
Part of the PiTiVi Love list, Mathieu Duponchelle has implemented a “welcome screen” (also known as “Startup Wizard”). It is a great little feature which uses GTK Recent to automatically show the last few projects you were working on, so you can open them with two clicks (or by pressing Enter): You wouldn’t believe how often…