VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works 120
eldavojohn writes "Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release, Lifehacker brings word of a video editor that the VLC team is working on dubbed VideoLAN Media Creator. It hasn't been released yet (git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git) but a pre-release is due out soon."
Sounds exciting (Score:5, Interesting)
If it has the same quality and compatibility as VLC Media Player, then it would be a welcome beacon here in Penguin Land.
Re:Great! (Score:0, Interesting)
runs on every OS
Well, for now.
Avisynth (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! (Score:5, Interesting)
I know it makes me seem like a total douche to put down projects that many people put a lot of time and effort into, but come on! The sound editor front is even worse! Audacity is today what Cool Edit was in 1998.
Can it Edit MKV files etc.... (Score:3, Interesting)
I would like something that can open anything and then edit it.
It would be nice to have a good video editor, One that was free back in the day was DDClip it worked pretty good back in 00' . Anythign is better than the abortion that is Windows Movie Maker....
Vegas (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm hoping it take after Vegas, which leaves all other editors in the dust (even Avid) when it comes to ease of use. I especially like being able to drag the end of one clip over another on the time line for instant crossfades without having to deal with creating a transition. Fade in/out is a simple matter of dragging the upper corner of the clip one way or the other. Timelines are a series of thumbnails that change in real-time when you expand or contract, cut, stretch etc. (stretch/contract is a simple ctrl+drag). I rarely use more than 8 tracks, but the ability to do 16-32 would be nice, if not unlimited like Vegas.
Vegas and Photoshop are the only things keeping my workstations running Windows. (XP - not interested in Vista/7)
Gstreamer and MLT (Score:1, Interesting)
I guess I'll be the first to give a shout-out to Pitivi [pitivi.org] and Open Shot Video [openshotvideo.com].
Reading Jonathan Thomas' ( Open Shot Video ) valiant attempt at creating a NLE from Gstreamer/Gnonlin [sourceforge.net] it appears that the Gnonlin API/toolkit/whatever is VERY confusing to program a video editor in ( and unstable ). But since Jonathan chose MLT [mltframework.org] things are rapidly moving along for him. I often wonder why KDEnlive is so unstable because Kino is rock solid ( for me ) and it is also based on Dan Dennedy's impressive MLT toolkit.
But I truly believe that Pitivi will be the defacto NLE on linux. For the sole reason that Gstreamer is the defacto multimedia framework. It will probably be another five years before Pitivi is really a good stable functional application, and I say that because it took Gstreamer 10 years to do the same.
What aboout Avidemux? (Score:4, Interesting)
Avidemux [fixounet.free.fr] always seemed like a natural partner to VLC to me. Based off the same FFMPEG code, QT or GTK interfaces, straightforward design, and despite the name it can do many file types. It's excellent for simple cut and paste editing, very much a Linux equivalent of Virtualdub. Why do so many free software projects try to reinvent the wheel rather reuse and improve on the code that is out there? I always thought that was the point of free software.
Truly an enlightened age... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Avisynth (Score:3, Interesting)
What is wrong with people (Score:5, Interesting)
Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release
You mean despite the news that was clarified and proven false by the VLC project the day after everyone in the blogsphere and on tech forums went nuts : http://www.osnews.com/story/22629/VLC_for_Mac_Death_Greatly_Exaggerated_ [osnews.com]
Why repeat it if it never was true ? It didn't need to be part of the summary at all for that matter, the true story here has nothing at all to do with the Mac port.
Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! (Score:2, Interesting)
Kdenlive was unusable for me in Ubuntu (Hardy and Intrepid). It crashed within a minute, every time.
Re:This is nowhere near alpha quality (Score:1, Interesting)
Why don't you help out then.
Don't just sit there and complain on /dot.
Go over to their site and help code a better UI, post your suggestions, or even draw up some UI images?