Thursday, June 2, 2011

PiTiVi 0.14 is here

You can get it by adding the Gstreamer developer PPA https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa

0.14 is a major step in the development of PiTiVi. This has been added:

2011 May 24 - PiTiVi 0.14
* Audio and video effects
* Completely redesigned project settings dialog, with the ability to create presets
* Completely redesigned rendering dialog
* Welcome dialog that helps you start a project or load recent projects in two clicks
* Ability to preview video, audio and image files before importing
* Add a "best fit" zoom button
* Ability to jump to an exact position in the timeline
* Ability to specify custom aspect ratios and framerates
* Show a progress bar when loading projects
* 300% faster project timeline loading
* Search bar in the Media Library
* Ability to detach all the tabs and the previewer
* New manpage
* Commandline render mode
* Use the standard infobar widget all around
* Lots of bug fixes.

PiTiVi is the most promising Open Source NLE project out there not counting LightWorks that has not had it's source code released yet. The developers behind PiTiVi seems to have a little bit of insight into media production - something I think it's safe to say almost all other projects development teams doesn't have. projects like Kdenlive is very ambitious and I'm the biggest supporter - but the developers behind it has no insight into video production workflows.

UPDATE: I've installed 0.14 and all it's dependencies on two different machines (Ubuntu 11.04/Gnome) and it can't get it up and running. If I solve it I'll let you know. Otherwise we have to wait for some one else to solve it.