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Pitivi Video Editor Surpasses 50% Crowdfunding Goal, Releases Version 0.94
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.
Because closed source software disappears when the company goes out of business. Ever heard of Caligari Truespace?
Exactly.
Agreed with AC.
In addition, they're goal was 35,000 €. In comparison to commercial development, that's damn near free.
You can continue to:
* pay zero and use nothing
* use any of the existing free-ish editors that don't have the features this has
* pay zero and pirate some commercial software
* pay your monthly subscription for creative cloud etc
* pay ~$1k for a license to something like Final Cut Pro or Premier Pro
* pay nothing and still end up using this after others put their time and money into it and still complain because they asked for money
Why *wouldn't* you donate money to an open source project?
you don't know what your getting, often no bug tracker, or companies hostile to the concept of fixing bugs, expensive, often bloated, often limited in features, and unable to make your own in many cases.
There are lots of reasons to get involved in FOSS programs. The notion that an established project is going to pick up shop after you donate is simply ludacris.
Also, if a program is GPL or copyleft, more or less all work put into it, will be done publicly and will be available in some form.
Oh, and what happens if a closed program just goes away, the maintainers split, company goes under? No more bug fixes, doesn't get ported to new platforms.
I just saw your page, not convinced your not a troll.
More OSS video editors is great. I backed openshot a while ago, not because I have any interest in video editing (or watching videos - would much prefer to read) but because I think it'd be great to wrest some of the power away from the commercial options.