27.Mar.2006
I’m glad to announce that Diva 0.0.1 will be released shortly. Here is a small preview with some hands-on demo movies:
Demo 1 XviD / Mpeg4 – Starting a new project, importing video/music/photos into the project, managing the media assets using tags, various ways of finding the stuff.
Demo 2 XviD / Mpeg4 – Basic playback capabilities. Putting media on the timeline, adjusting in/out points, using multi-track multi-layer editing, adding music, navigating the timeline, saving the project, fullscreen playback.
Demo 3 XviD / Mpeg4 – Advanced editing capabilities – cutting clips using the clip cutter, using the chain-edit twin view to adjust in/out points, adjusting track opacity, animated filter parameters demo, taking advantage of the background ahead-processing.
Demo 4 XviD / Mpeg4 – Undo/redo functionality with a history of all the operations. In Diva you can always go back in the past (the undo/redo/history is saved with the project). I’m demoing that functionality later in the video by:
Demo 5 – XviD / Mpeg4 Finishing the work – exporting the composed movie to a Theora ogg file (plugginable exporters).
Files are rather large (30 - 70MB) but there is pretty much to watch there. In the meantime you might want to check the screenshots.
Official tarballs, build instructions and all the information you might want to get it working right will be made public very soon now.
Special thanks go to Miguel and Nat from Novell and Chris DiBona from Google who made it all possible!
Update: It’s released now. Check the updated www.diva-project.org .
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Michael, this is absolutely awesome. keep it up!
Yeah, this is seriously impressive.
Wow:)
Tomorrow I test it on Gentoo and make ebuild if build good.
the export to theora script. does that save the video in the highest export possible? or does is downsample from the original videos?
are they any options to downsample in the export?
are there any options to save as a .dv file to not lose any quality? i like to keep around a non-lossy copy as a .dv file with all my edits and then have a downsample ogg or mpg file.
anyways, ROCK ON! diva looks amazing!
Awesome. I was getting worried about Diva because there hadn’t been updates in a while and SVN has stopped working for me. Good to see you’re making real progress!
Wow… Freakin amazing!
Is all rendering done live? No wait-for-things-to-render period for simple transitions?
Amazing…
svn checkout svn+ssh://anonymous@forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/diva/trunk diva Password: svn: Can’t open file ‘/svn/diva/trunk/format’: Permission denied
svn anonyous fails wiht permission denied svn checkout svn+ssh://anonymous@forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/diva/trunk diva Password: svn: Can’t open file ‘/svn/diva/trunk/format’: Permission denied
De Icaza is funny. I personally don’t forget that all those impressive applications (f-spot, banshee, diva) are Novell-sponsored. It doesn’t prove in anyway that Mono is a good development platform or that people will like it… (I see you’re using typo as your weblog engine, good)
What a helpful comment Matt. Another mono hater huh?
Anyway, I’ve been anxious to hear an update on your app as I think it’s one of the most promising app being developed for Linux. Great work!
What a helpful comment Matt. Another mono hater huh?
Anyway, I’ve been anxious to hear an update on your app as I think it’s one of the most promising app being developed for Linux. Great work!
If you have not been given commit access to this project, you can still check-out all of the files in the Subversion repository for this project through anonymous access. This can be done with the following command:
svn checkout https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/prjname/trunk
-http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Help:Subversion#AnonymousSubversionAccess
AHH! AH! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! THANKS A LOT!
This is the day …. when Linux killed windows :)
Keep it up !
This is great stuff. I hope to try it soon. The ui seems a very good mix of existing video editing UI.
Good luck for the first release!
And there was much rejoicing…
Looks awesome, contratulations, looks like you have made a really useful, powerful and usable application
Super great!! The firts screenshot says crossplatform - is this really true?
Wow, this looks awesome! Will future versions allow you to set custom framerates, resolutions, and all that good stuff for the project settings?
@jdodson:
There are no options to configure the Theora export. It goes out in the project format. Adding the rescale/resample options is a little homework for the next release.
Speaking about the loseless .dv – unfortunately that’s not easily possible with the current GStreamer design. We’ll have dv export but it will lose some quality due to recompression.
@Sergej:
Yes, it’s live. Diva uses an internal playback video/audio queue (1s by default but for demos I used a higher value) to reduce the play/pause latency. When you seek somewhere, the engine automatically “renders ahead” so that pushing “play” starts instant playback.
Bear in mind however, that current performance is FAR from being good. It’s still kinda debug-mode.
The project on Novell forge has been abbandoned long time ago. Check the updated http://www.diva-project.org . 0.0.1 is out now.
your blog homepage seems to be on the old system, still. it’s been tweaking out the past couple days, so maybe you’re working it or something, but i thought i’d let you know. anyways, great job on diva.
dominik powiem jedno, FANTYSTYCZNE
This is exactly what we’ve been waiting for, I wish I could express how much joy this brings me!
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