Category: Planet GNOME
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Pre-releasing in New York
A pre-release of Pitivi is out. Please test it out and report any problems you may find, and help us make the 0.15 release (due September 26th) a great success! Among the usual round of fixed bugs, niceties of this release include a presets system for project settings and rendering settings (there’s a preset for…
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Improving GNOME PackageKit on big screens
In the same vein as my don’t make me scroll post, I sent a couple of patches Richardwards to, among other things, solve one of the biggest itches I had with gpk: the fact that I had to care about sizing it up constantly on my 1920×1200 24″ monitor. Before, if you started gpk-application (or the…
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Results from the hackfest
I had a fantastic week at the PiTiVi+GES hackfest and desktop summit in Berlin. Over the course of the past few days, we polished and merged some more features and bug fixes in your favorite video editor. Lubosz’s “transformation” branch has now been merged and allows insanely sexy and efficient panning/resizing/cropping of your video clips,…
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HTML5 videos on Planet GNOME
WordPress still doesn’t have a built-in HTML5 video embedding feature, and my previous attempts at using plugins that are supposed to do so failed when either they were unreliable, stupidly hard to use, or Planet GNOME just didn’t seem to like them at all. This is quite frustrating as it has been quite a few…
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Various performance and usability improvements in PiTiVi
I have been attending the Desktop Summit since the opening on Saturday, and it’s been a great experience reconnecting with familiar faces and meeting new ones. Tomorrow, the PiTiVi and GES hackfest officially begins, in room “1.308/2” (the building is at 24 Dorotheen Straße). Come join us at any time of the day (and since…
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Chaos
No matter how I try to write this, it will come out wrong. I have basically no chances of improving anything at all, especially since I’m no Shakespeare. I’m good at singing the praise of contributors, but I’m terrible at handling delicate situations. I’ll still try clarifying my thoughts into this post, which I’m quite…
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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…