Comments for Edward Hervey

Comment on Answering questions… by prokoudine

prokoudine — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:25:58 +0000

@d0od

“I’m not out to distort or needlessly detract from the hardwork that goes into an application or its development, which is slightly the taste you’re leaving in peoples’ mouths.”

Wasn’t it you who wrote “PiTiVi sucks”, eh? So after a calm response to your rant you suddenly pretend to be a nice guy? Man, if you really want to be a good journalist, learn basic skills like critical review of your own stuff before clicking “Publish” button.

Comment on Answering questions… by Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:55:36 +0000

It’s not negative energy… it’s critism of it being included in Ubuntu by default, because it’s not ready yet.

(like fspot, but with less features).

Comment on Answering questions… by Stephane Delcroix

Stephane Delcroix — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:53:35 +0000

All that negative energy against a project, and it doesn’t even run on Mono !

I do love it.

Comment on Answering questions… by nemolivier

nemolivier — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:19:27 +0000

Pitivi will be realy great… with a transition support. Cut tansitions are ugly.

In my dream, i’d like to see more interaction beetween f-spot (banshee/rythmbox ?) and pitivi. Most of numeric camera allow us to make movies. But after this… nothing. I can’t class them, can’t tag them, can’t edit them, can’t send them to {youtube, picasa, vimeo}. But, as a « normal » user, it’s exactly what I want to do with my daily’s videos.

Comment on Answering questions… by Tobias

Tobias — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:45 +0000

For me Kdenlive works best, but PiTiVi is not that far away. What I’m really missing in PiTiVi is transparency for overlay images. But I’ll check the next version.
Keep up the good work.

Comment on Answering questions… by Ben Foote

Ben Foote — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:57 +0000

I for one look forward to the inclusion of transitions and overlays to PiTiVi. Once I can title my videos then I can be happy. Effects aren’t as big a deal to me, but it’d be nice anyways.

PiTiVi is getting there.

For those interested in a more advanced Gnome video editor, check out OpenShot: http://www.openshotvideo.com

Its got transitions, effects, and overlays. And it’s pretty damn stable for being cutting edge. And having more choices is always a good thing.

Comment on Answering questions… by Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:30 +0000

While I don’t agree with the original overly harsh critisism, I do agree that PiTiVI is not ready.

It’s like FSpot with less features (and features are what is necessary here…). All you can do is cut and paste pieces of video and audio. That’s it. I don’t see pitivi improving exponentially to the stage where it would be worthy to include in Ubuntu and thus as a promoted video editor to millions of users to be impressed or regularly used by.

Comment on Answering questions… by d0od

d0od — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:23 +0000

Just so any readers here don’t get the wrong impression regarding Omg!Ubuntu! – the comment was re-written up into a separate article so that the conversation could take place it it’s own thread as it didn’t deserve to be buried away 50 comments down a page! This was communicated to Mr Hervey.

I’m not out to distort or needlessly detract from the hardwork that goes into an application or its development, which is slightly the taste you’re leaving in peoples’ mouths. We have a great relationship with many developers and projects and regularly interview developers and maintainers, feature brand new apps and highlight projects.

I don’t want people left with the impression that because we had dared to express an opinion and that because we moved one comment into the view of a greater number of people that we’re some project-hating blog – we’re not the perez hilton of linux!

Comment on Answering questions… by heathenx

heathenx — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:55:58 +0000

I love Pititvi. It’s incredibly simple and stable and works very well with Theora/Vorbis video. The lack of transitions, such as, fades and gamma crossing of tracks are the only things keeping Pitivi from being a killer app. You have already tackled what most people need in an editor. Excellent work so far.

Comment on Answering questions… by Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:40:12 +0000

I was in the bar at UDS last night when a fellow Ubuntu user (and Canonical employee) asked me how to edit a video down and re-encode it for uploading to a popular online video site. We installed Pitivi and it took next to no time for me to show him how to use it. Pitivi is a great app an I look forward to it being in the default Ubuntu application set.

Keep up the great work guys.