PiTiVi

GStreamer tutorials for PiTiVi contributors

Brandon started publishing some of his PyGST tutorials/notes today. If you have been looking for some documentation to get you started on understanding/contributing to PiTiVi, this should probably be of interest to you :)

PiTiVi on Windows

A little while back, Andoni Morales (author of Longomatch) had managed to run PiTiVi on Windows “just for the sake of testing gstreamer python bindings”. His efforts have resumed and been posted to a new bug report as a serie of patches, and here is how it looks like:

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Themed canvas widget in PiTiVi

Brandon’s polish changes to the canvas widget (the area on which you place clips on the timeline) have been merged today. This means that it now integrates nicely with your GTK+ theme, be it Clearlooks:

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Themed ruler widget in PiTiVi

Edward released PiTiVi 0.13.3 today. Brandon recently spent some time working on the timeline’s ruler, and his changes are part of that release. So now, it looks like this:

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Volume curves that render

Up until today, volume curves in PiTiVi were not correctly taken into account when rendering. This has now been fixed. I will be able to do my sound mixing natively for my future screencasts :)

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Video mixing

Is that transparent clips I see below?

videomixing

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Smaller tabs and source list

Last week, in quest for space-efficiency after tackling this bug, Alessandro removed some padding in the tab above the source list, as well as padding around the source list and previewer. Before:

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Toolbar items prioritization

As I requested, PiTiVi now has some of its toolbar buttons prioritized. This enhances usability by giving more importance and discoverability to more commonly used buttons. It now looks like this:

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Variable time stretching (ramping)

Here are some initial thoughts on how slow/fast motion video (with variable speed within a clip) could be designed in PiTiVi.

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Texture (v2)

After much waiting around, here’s a new version of the video I presented at the end of my LGM talk. This time, there’s about twice as much new footage, better rhythm, better encoding quality, title cards, and generally a more interesting experience. Of course, all made with PiTiVi 0.13.1.

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