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VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works

Posted by timothy on from the just-crazy-enough-to-work dept.

eldavojohn writes "Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release, Lifehacker brings word of a video editor that the VLC team is working on dubbed VideoLAN Media Creator. It hasn't been released yet (git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git) but a pre-release is due out soon."

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  1. Sounds exciting by Ironchew · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it has the same quality and compatibility as VLC Media Player, then it would be a welcome beacon here in Penguin Land.

  2. Avisynth by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hopefully it wraps Avisynth -- it's got some incredible community-made scripts and plugins that are unmatched by anything else, but isn't newbie-friendly when it comes to what most people think of as "video editing".

  3. Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! by ichthus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Could this mean we finally get a decent video editor in Linux? Apologies to the Cinelerra, Kino, etc. people, but (and I really hate to say this) many of the simplest and cheapest Windows offerings put these projects to shame.

    I know it makes me seem like a total douche to put down projects that many people put a lot of time and effort into, but come on! The sound editor front is even worse! Audacity is today what Cool Edit was in 1998.

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  4. What aboout Avidemux? by FromellaSlob · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Avidemux always seemed like a natural partner to VLC to me. Based off the same FFMPEG code, QT or GTK interfaces, straightforward design, and despite the name it can do many file types. It's excellent for simple cut and paste editing, very much a Linux equivalent of Virtualdub. Why do so many free software projects try to reinvent the wheel rather reuse and improve on the code that is out there? I always thought that was the point of free software.

  5. What is wrong with people by RedK · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release

    You mean despite the news that was clarified and proven false by the VLC project the day after everyone in the blogsphere and on tech forums went nuts : http://www.osnews.com/story/22629/VLC_for_Mac_Death_Greatly_Exaggerated_

    Why repeat it if it never was true ? It didn't need to be part of the summary at all for that matter, the true story here has nothing at all to do with the Mac port.

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    Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM