What do you mean, "shouldn't Wayland be out already"? The fact that it has had twelvepublic 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?
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.
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?).
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.
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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?
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.
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?).
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.
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.