"Just make it look pro and important..."
25.Aug.2005
It seems there is a lot of talking regarding video editing on Linux recently. That’s good. PiTiVi got some attention, and I recommend you to check it out. It looks pretty interesting. Harvey and I we have same goals but much different ways to achieve them. I’m going to post a small wrap-up comparing the technological differences/assumptions between Diva and PiTiVi soon.
I also managed to put my hands on Positron – a video editing
software based on blender. I was much disappointed to see that this application
comes as single 7MB binary executable (no source code release). I was expecting
a huge vomit of shared object not found! failure messages, and was really
surprised to see a pretty professional interface coming up without a glitch:
Unfortunately I can’t write more as I failed to import any media file into Positron (and I tried many, believe me). One would expect much more from a software that is version 1.0.0 and (as the website says) “…is geared towards replacing software such as Avid, Apple’s Final Cut Pro, and Discreet’s Flame”. I have a bad feeling that Positron is right now only about the professional interface (BTW they call it “Easy-to-learn, user-friendly, intuitive”). I might be wrong, but one has to estimate since there is no documentation, no FAQ’s, no anything…
In other news – after seeing what Richard does to cairo-clearlooks I decided to jump in the Cairo bandwagon.
Some more serious cairo screenshots coming shortly.
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6 Comments
Nice new screenshot there, good to see progress being made. I tried out that Positron too, and I was able to get it to load an uncompressed avi and an uncompressed wav file. I couldn’t figure out much of anything else after that though. The interface is extremely bloated and un-user-friendly. Thankfully some projects still try to keep things looking simple and easy!
Hi, positron is only forked Blender. it has implemented one buggy patch, it has different setting file and it has removed some Blender functionality. That’s all. It looks profesional, because Blender looks profesional. I think, that Blender is and will be better nle then positron. (for example: we will have support for OpenEXR and FFMPG in very short time).
Similar project is Jahshaka:
http://www.jahshaka.org/
… it has lot of functionality, but it is buggy and very unstable.
It seems, that diva has chance to be the best open source video editor for Linux. I’m looking forward :-)
Jiri
hello there, just want to say good luck with diva, i also agree it “has change to be best open source video editor for linux”! really nice work. thank you.
Well, since everybody seems to enjoy bashing Positron here I have to say that I really like where it is going. Yes, you have to realize that it is just the sequence editor from blender at the moment. Since I’m used to working in blender I’m also very happy it has the same powerful interface. So if you’d like to learn something about Positron you have to look at the blender sequence editor documentation. One of the developers of Positron has posted a road map with featured that they want to implement and they look very promosing if they can keep it up, which I hope. ;) Anyway, I’ve been checking out Jahshaka and while it looks very nice and promising I found it somewhat difficult to edit or composit simple clips. As far as I know both Positron and Jahshaka are more or less a mixture of editing and compositing apps (like Shake for example) while if I’m getting this right DIVA is aming to be more like the Avid NLEs? Btw - I could import all my source files fine into Positron.
how is the gtk theme?
@dorkx:
Graphite + Blended. Check GnomeLook.
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