[IMC-Video] Video Software - Free Software and Otherwise

[jilt at inventati.org]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:10:13 +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> On 16 July 2011 01:10, Robbt  wrote:
>
>> Hey I just wanted to start a quick discussion about what software
>> people
>> are using for their video editing.
>>
>> I honestly haven't been editing video very intently partially for a
>> lack
>> of a proper workflow and I find this to be common amongst people
>> who
>> don't edit video regularly, otherwise I've used tools like iMovie
>> which
>> require very little knowledge. 
>

As far as I can understand from your mail, you're searching for a 
simple tool, take a look to pitivi.org (running on gstreamer, default on 
ubuntu since maverik), and open movie editor (with frei0r plugns for a 
complete tool) or avidemux have the same features more or less, consider 
that what ben says is true, it takes a longer time to edit video with 
open source, due to technical problems that would be long to explain.

Somepeople have been talikin to me about OpenShot
I've never used it but they say it's more efficent than pitivi.
Unless I do believe the developing community of gstreamer is going to 
make the difference in audio/video open tech (there is an android 
version that could run pitivi on android tablets or phones with graphic 
acceleration, a great goal for open video editing on tablet, usefull in 
particular for chronicle needs instant editing during demonstrations, 
with the faceblur plugin already running 
http://faceblur.ventuordici.org)

Portability it's just a matter of time, gstreamer developer have the 
code (sources fron acer and from the community, we've found out acer 
uses gstreamer since years...) and understand the potential of online 
interfaces for clouding on editing a gst video stream.

Let's see what happens.

ciao
jilt