VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works

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."

Comments

Great!

[hairyfeet]

Can't go wrong with VLC, runs on every OS, opens even the PITA formats. Can't wait! Go VLC Team!

Re:Great!

[clone53421]

VLC is great when it comes to playing media. I really can’t find fault with it on that front.

When it comes to encoding media... well, it’s good enough... usually... if you don’t mind playing with it a bit. (Admittedly it does seem better than it used to be. I used to find that more often than not the encoder would crash with some odd error in the message log.) It doesn’t seem to always create portable files – I’ve had output files that only played in VLC, or wouldn’t seek properly, etc. It can’t simultaneously capture the screen and the stereo mix (I have a .js that launches two copies – one to capture the screen, one to capture the stereo mix – and must recombine the separate video/audio tracks in an external video editing suite). Minor details like that...

I’m going to approach this with a considerable amount of skepticism until I find out how well this video editing feature works, unfortunately.

Sounds exciting

[Ironchew]

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

Re:Finally

[clone53421]

VLC is already able to transcode media.

That said, I haven’t been overly impressed with its performance. Strange crashes, glitchy files, etc.

For instance, when transcoding a .flv, the first keyframe is always dropped – resulting in only a smear of black/gray for the first second or two of the output file.

Avisynth

[PhrostyMcByte]

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".

Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah!

[ichthus]

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.

What is wrong with people

[RedK]

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.