PiTiVi
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 PiTiVi version 0.13.0.1 |
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| Original author(s) | Edward Hervey |
| Stable release | 0.13.3 / 2009-09-12 |
| Written in | Python (GTK+) |
| Operating system | GNU/Linux |
| Development status | Active |
| Type | Video Editor |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Website | www.pitivi.org |
PiTiVi is a free software non-linear video editor licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License,[1] primarily developed by Collabora. PiTiVi is designed to be a simple video editor to meet the needs of users in the GNOME desktop environment.
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[edit] History
Edward Hervey started working on PiTiVi in 2004 as an end-of-studies project at the EPITECH engineering school in Paris.[2] Initially written in C, the PiTiVi code base was rewritten in Python one year later.[3]
After his graduation, Edward was hired by Fluendo to work on GStreamer for the following two years, after which Edward co-founded Collabora's Multimedia division in order to improve PiTiVi, GStreamer and the GNonlin plugins.[4] Collabora has since then hired two additional employees to help develop PiTiVi.
[edit] Features
PiTiVi inherits its capabilities for importing and exporting (rendering) media from the GStreamer framework, or plugins for the GStreamer framework. PiTiVi supports simple media editing capabilities such as trimming, snapping, splitting and cutting of clips. Audio mixing is supported by curves, visualised as line segments drawn over an audio waveform. PiTiVi has the ability to step through a piece of media using scrubbers or keyboard shortcuts. Audio and video clips can be linked together, and treated as a single clip. Initial support for video mixing (compositing and transitions) has been added in late 2009 but is still under heavy work. A more exhaustive list of features can be found on the PiTiVi website.[5]
Jean-François Fortin Tam gave a talk at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009, discussing how usability became a major focus for the PiTiVi project,[6][1] and how design considerations impacted PiTiVi's user-interface, with examples such as the use of subtle gradients in timeline objects, drag and drop importing and direct manipulation, native theme integration, and reducing complexity by carefully evaluating the need (or lack thereof) to impose preference choices onto users.[6]
The PiTiVi project also has a user manual that covers the usage of the application. PiTiVi has been translated and localized for several languages by the GNOME translation teams (il8n).
Through GStreamer, PiTiVi is the first open source video editor to support the Material Exchange Format (MXF).[7][8]
[edit] Development
Collabora Multimedia employs Edward Hervey, Brandon Lewis and Alessandro to improve on PiTiVi and the GStreamer and GNonlin frameworks.[9][7][10] Development has also been funded through the Google Summer of Code program.[11]
[edit] Media attention
In an interview with gnomedesktop.org Edward Hervey discussed the state of PiTiVi and Linux Video editing, at one stage edward notes that "there's a total lack of cohesion between all the various multimedia applications/libraries/device-support on linux which is IMHO the reason why we're not yet the reference platform for multimedia creation."[12]
- PiTiVi was featured in French magazine "Linux Pratique"'s 53rd edition.[13]
- Linux.com ran a feature on Collabora's funding of the project.[14]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b "PiTiVi, an open source video editor". PiTiVi.org. PiTiVi Development Team. January 03 2010. http://www.pitivi.org. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ Hervey, Edward (May 1 2004). "PiTiVi". Edward Hervey. http://git.pitivi.org/?p=pitivi.git;a=commit;h=509ec404f4e7314ebd027a2c74607582fb71c185. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ , http://git.pitivi.org/?p=pitivi.git;a=commit;h=4ddfd1240c86619a7dd97ef662cd7b8462e77714
- ^ "Collabora - About us - Who are we". Collabora.co.uk. Collabora. 2009. http://www.collabora.co.uk/about/who-we-are. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ "PiTiVi features". pitivi.org. PiTiVi development team. November 23 2009. http://www.pitivi.org/?go=features. Retrieved Jabuary 4 2010.
- ^ a b Tam, Jean-François Fortin (May 24 2009). "PiTiVi: an overview of a FOSS video editor’s history and design". Libre Graphics Meeting 2009. river-valley.tv. http://river-valley.tv/pitivi-an-overview-of-a-foss-video-editors-history-and-design/. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ a b "Collabora - Projects - PiTiVi". collabora.co.uk. Collabora. http://www.collabora.co.uk/projects/pitivi. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ [|Schaller, Christian] (November 22 2008). "MXF support in GStreamer". Just another GNOME blogs weblog. blogs.gnome.org. http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/11/17/mxf-support-in-gstreamer/. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ [|Schaller, Christian] (October 9 2008). "Supporting PiTiVi". Just another GNOME blogs weblog. blogs.gnome.org. http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/10/09/supporting-pitivi/. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ [|Schaller, Christian] (December 2 2008). "New team member". Just another GNOME blogs weblog. blogs.gnome.org. http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/12/02/new-team-member/. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ "Google SoC project page". pitivi.org. PiTiVi development team. September 27 2008. http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Google_SoC_project_page.
- ^ "Interview with Edward Hervey about the PiTiVI video editor". gnomedesktop.org. May 8 2009. http://gnomedesktop.org/node/4082. Retrieved January 4 2010.
- ^ p.36 : PiTiVi, futur projet incontournable de l’édition vidéo ? – Rencontre avec ses développeurs, http://www.linux-pratique.com/index.php/2009/04/30/linux-pratique-n%C2%B053-maijuin-2009-chez-votre-marchand-de-journaux
- ^ Willis, Nathan (November 6 2008). "Collabora funds development of open source video editor PiTiVi". linux.com. http://www.linux.com/feature/152464. Retrieved January 4 2010.
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