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Submission + - Pitivi Video Editor surpasses 50% crowdfunding goal, releases version 0.94

Submitted by kxra on Monday November 10, 2014 @02:10PM

kxra writes: With the latest developments, Pitivi is proving to truly be a promising libre video editor for GNU distributions as well as a serious contender for bringing libre video production up to par with its proprietary counterparts. Since launching a beautifully well-organized crowdfunding campaign (as covered here previously), the team has raised over half of their 35,000 € goal to pay for full-time development and has entered "beta" status for version 1.0. They've released two versions, 0.94 (release notes) being the most recent, which have brought full MPEG-TS/AVCHD support, porting to Python 3, lots of UX improvements, and—of course—lots and lots of bug fixes. The next release (0.95) will run on top of Non Linear Engine, a refined and incredibly more robust backend Pitivi developers have produced to replace GNonLin and bring Pitivi closer to the rock-solid stability needed for the final 1.0 release.

Comment Re:What are you waiting for, Christmas? (Score 1) 259

by nekohayo on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @11:05AM (#43840719) Attached to: Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland

What do you mean, "shouldn't Wayland be out already"? The fact that it has had twelve public releases to this day, that it is available to be installed from recent distros' repositories and that desktop environments and window managers plan to have something based on Wayland by next fall?

Submission + - Vastly improved Raspberry Pi performance with Wayland

Submitted by nekohayo on Monday May 27, 2013 @03:17PM

nekohayo writes: While Wayland/Weston 1.1 brought support to the Raspberry Pi merely a month ago, work has recently been done to bring true hardware-accelerated compositing capabilities to the RPi's graphics stack using Weston. The Raspberry Pi foundation has made an announcement about the work that has been done with Collabora to make this happen. X.org/Wayland developer Daniel Stone has written a blog post about this, including a video demonstrating the improved reactivity and performance. Developer Pekka Paalanen also provided additional technical details about the implementation.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 95

by nekohayo on Monday April 08, 2013 @11:15AM (#43391629) Attached to: Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released

Lossless cutting (provided that your output codecs match your input codecs) is a feature of the "GStreamer Editing Services" library and thus will be part of the next release of Pitivi (barring unforeseen bugs of course - usual disclaimer applies: no guarantee, patches welcome for issues that may arise, etc. :)

Last time I tested (a year ago), this allowed rendering a project in 7 seconds instead of 5 minutes. Pretty cool if you don't need to apply any effects and just want to shuffle some cuts around quickly without losing quality.

Submission + - Director of "Elephants Dream" releasing new Blender-animated film, "Tube" (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by

TheSilentNumber

on Saturday April 21, 2012 @03:22PM

TheSilentNumber writes: "Bassam Kurdali's free culture 3D animation, "Tube" is nearing the final stages of production. Tube is a collaborative effort between 56 artists from 22 countries...some of which are at war. After directing the first of the Blender Institute's "Open Movie Projects", Elephants Dream, Bassam wanted to prove the viability of free cultural works and usability of free software like Blender and PiTiVi for independent filmmakers. Just a few days after launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the project, the goal has been met, which means we should see the final release in 7 months!"

Comment Password database (Score 0) 185

by nekohayo on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @10:34AM (#36512654) Attached to: Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours

I never used dropbox for anything more than a handful spreadsheets I had to work with in school, because I never entrusted the "cloud" with my sensitive data. This is why iFolder (and now SparkleShare) are so promising, and why I keep using Unison in the meantime. The big question I have to ask today is: were the dropbox user account passwords accessible, or was it "just" the files? I need to know if I have to change the dozens of websites that use that particular password *again* (remember the Gawker password dump?).

Comment Demand (Score 0) 182

by nekohayo on Sunday May 01, 2011 @10:17AM (#35990462) Attached to: Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing

There are many reasons why consumer/prosumer video editing for Linux still isn't there yet, and not moving at a very rapid pace. If my talk proposal is accepted, I'll be presenting them in detail at Libre Graphics Meeting next week (there should be a video recording of the talk afterwards). Off the top of my head, I can give you some broad clues: the very small market of Linux desktop users (1.5%) combined with the small percentage of computer users who actually do video editing, combined with the very small percentage of those who know programming, combined with the incredibly hard task that is making a full-fledged, stable video editor, combined with the general lack of economic incentives for it. Oh, and the fact that everyone keeps trying to reinvent the wheel.

Comment april fool's? I wish (Score 1) 223

by nekohayo on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @09:49AM (#22930234) Attached to: OOXML Rumored to be Approved, Announcement Wednesday

You know, this is not really the kind of stories that I like to see on April 1st. I do hope it's a DO NOT WANT joke.

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