Include a true video editing software with DVD creation capabilities
Ubuntu has specific application to please most of the desktop user out there. The multimedia creation department is one of the few lacking areas. Having a kinda iLife suite would get new users. Including something like Diva could be a nice start.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Martin Pitt
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Ken VanDine
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Informational
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Martin Pitt
Whiteboard
No action at this time, we need to see how pitivi comes along in the next few months.
I am a heavy user when it comes multimedia/video editing things and it has been such a disappointing area for someone that loves Ubuntu and even having to rely on a dual boot machine to finish my work in this area, I Would easily dedicate my spare time in programming the features I need but my knowledge on programming/
My dream program would be something like the LiVEs ( Linux editing software) that integrates a burning DVD feature and a simple all codecs converter integrated to its program therefore making it a editing software, all in one converter, DVD/CD burner program; another feature that could be integrated to it would be features that Kino has such as the video capture ones, the subtitles editor could also have the options of inserting a already made ones or to insert at the moment.
So basically the Main programs to be part of the " multimedia frankstein " would be:
Video editing/capture: KDENLIVE, LiVES, Kino
Codecs: All the lib available ones
Converter: FFMPEG, Mencoder, Mjpegtools, others for .SWF and portable devices like Ireverter (PSP,IPOD etc)
DVD burner: any one such as Gnomebaker or DeVeDe
Full solutions: Mistelix (see http://
Dont' forget PiTiVi, which is very slick and user friendly, but sadly far from complete yet (ver 0.11.3). Perhaps something will be ready for Karmic+1 (http://
For convertor: have a look at Arista (http://
*Ubuntu does not ship a video editor by default
== Capabilities Needed ==
*Audio/Video rendering in multiple formats
*Multilayer editing
*Split&change media (i.e. Add music to a video)
gstreamer now supports DV, which should make it easier for Pitivi to support it
If the video editor also created DVDs, you could mark the chapters in the editor
transmegadon for putting videos onto the ipod touch
pspvc for converting video for a PSP
== Candidates ==
* Pitivi: python and gstreamer based, easy to use, will support transitions, multilayer editing before Karmic is released.
- doesn't do DV (yet)
-Can't create DVD-Video
* Cinelerra is not very stable and hard to use, altough powerful
* OpenMovieEditor
* Kino doesn't feel integrated, and it is hard to deal with
creating DVD menus is too hard
formats are hard to support many, we should standardize on one or two common formats
another tool to lookat is avidemux
DV capture
high definition video
usb capture from the cameras that are mass storage
Sounds like Pitivi has the most potential, the killer feature now seems to be lack of DV support. But that seems like it should be solvable now that gstreamer supports DV
Bombono DVD seems like a good option for DVD menus.