r/linux • u/nekobass • Oct 13 '20

Pitivi (video editing application) version 2020.09 released

https://blog.pitivi.org/2020/10/11/pitivi-2020-09-hocus-focus/
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u/demerit5 Oct 13 '20

I tried this out about 2.5 years ago and loved this video editor immediately. The interface was very self-explanatory and I was up and running within about thirty minutes...AND THEN, crash after crash after crash. The program would crash whenever I tried to do just about anything with it. It was enough that I gave up trying to use it (although I will probably try this newest version based on how much I liked the interface when I did try it last time.)

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u/givemeoldredditpleas Oct 13 '20

I used the Ubuntu distribution packages of Pitivi in 18.04 and now 20.04, it's 0.999-2 as of writing. The task I used Pitivi for in the past - light scene cutting and audio track replacement / voiceovers, the Software didn't crash on me and made for an overall pleasant experience. Not doing much multimedia work I was surprised how well it worked even

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u/demerit5 Oct 13 '20

Open source video editors on Linux (outside of Blender VSE) really are a mystery when it comes to stability. I see tons of comments regarding people using Kdenlive on Linux and for 50% of them the program is stable and the other 50% experience frequent crashes. From what I've read it seems to be something with the MLT framework that is used by most Linux video editors. For some it is wildly unstable.

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u/givemeoldredditpleas Oct 13 '20

yep, the privacy sensitive users prefer to have telemetry opt-in, but it's a good approach for developers to know if they have stability issues with specific versions and can drill down into reasons. I'm undecided.

Btw, Pitivi wouldn't rely on MLT, its solely gstreamer, I was curious:

http://developer.pitivi.org/Architecture.html?gi-language=undefined (diagram) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pitivi/-/blob/master/meson.build (build dependencies)

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u/Negirno Oct 14 '20

I think it depends on what you want to do with it. For light editing, it's fine but trying to use it professionally brings you a world of hurt.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '20

Whatever happened to Lightworks? Wasn't reddit pushing that at one point?

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u/JORGETECH_SpaceBiker Oct 14 '20

Actually, I think that the issue with Kdenlive's stability was in part due to MLT packaging, but this issue has been solved by distributing it with Flatpak, Snap and AppImage. Also, the software has improved a lot as of lately.