Recently in PiTiVi Category

The PiTiVi team have recently announced the release of version 0.13.3 of the popular open source source non-linear video editing tool. PiTiVi is built with Python on top of the GStreamer framework.

If you don't already know, PiTiVI is an open source non-linear video editor. It's still in the relatively early stages of development, with quite limited functionality compared to some of the well known commercial tools, used in production environments. PiTiVI is written in Python and uses the Gstreamer framework to do the back-end heavy lifting. While PiTiVI still has a long way to go, the last 12 months has seen some good advances and dedicated resources being assigned to the team by Collabora Multimedia.

Here's an interesting interview with lead developer Edward Hervey, talking about the past, present and future plans for PiTiVI.

I've tried to use PiTiVI in the past, but unfortunately found it too limited for my editing needs. Subsequently I switched to Blender, which while predominantly a 3D authoring tool, does include a reasonably powerful video sequence editor. The learning curve for Blender is quite steep, so it's not for everyone. Let's hope a tool like PiTiVI can emerge to make open source video editing much easier and accessible for everyone.

The news is a couple of weeks old now, but I thought PiTiVi was dead and wasn't bothered visiting their website for updates anymore. The link to their Forum still goes to a default Apache page.