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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.
Bah, humbug! My money is on Pitiemacs.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
I think the broader the base, the quicker the funding, so I would recommend pushing for porting to OSX, Windows and perhaps even Android
Closed source software already exists. Why not spend money on that?
Because closed source software disappears when the company goes out of business. Ever heard of Caligari Truespace?
Exactly.
But open source software can effectively disappear too. If the devs want to change it to something you don't like, you have no say in the matter. If no one forks it and you can't do it yourself, it's gone.
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?
But if its something useful and popular, historically usually someone will fork it, or replace it with something else. Its no guarantee of everlasting life, but making it closed-source-only is an almost certain eventual doom.
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.
Also, you're forgetting that the simple fact of there being existing open-source code for a project, means that someone, even you, given the effort and time, can learn to fork it, or rewrite something like it from scratch. With closed-source code this is not possible either.
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.
Open source software disappears too. Ever hear of AmaroK?
I was looking for something free and tried Lightworks. I had a free-hand 720p recording from a Nikon D3100 and wanted to de-shake it, do some noise reduction (temporal, recoring was quite low-light at night), cut it in a few places and store it properly compressed. Nothing special, typical household stuff.
Lightworks free couldn't read the camera's video files (MPEG4/H.264 in MOV containier), had no image stabilization and couldn't export H.264. I also could not find proper noise reduction or a way to use available IS/NR plug-ins from e.g. virtualdub. Also I still don't get the LightworksUI and controls completely.
I ended up using vdubmod to import the camera's video files, doing IS+NR, writing uncompressed video that Lightworks could read. Then do the cutting in Lightworks, again writing uncompressed video, and doing the final H.264 encode with MediaCoder. Performance was disappointing due to huge files sizes.
Gnome2, AmaroK, Songbird... Yea, OSS just isnt the miracle elixir people like to pretend it is, and "Just fork it" isnt an effective incantation.
But the Mate Desktop, a Gnome 2 fork, exists, so GP seems to be right: If it's popular enough, it will live on.
Nobody claimed that free software means someone will fulfill one's every wish. In the end, with free software you're allowed to create the fork; proprietary software, you're not (generally). That's it, no miracles involved.
Is Cinelerra still around? Looks like there was an actual update back in September, which is the first movement I've seen on the project in about 5 years. I've never come across anybody else that uses it though.