Looking to produce a video of your adventures this weekend? There are many different options for editing videos out there. However, if you are looking for a video editor that is simple to pick up, and also available in the official Fedora Repositories, give Pitivi a go.
Pitivi is an open source, non-linear video editor that uses the GStreamer framework. Out of the box on Fedora, Pitivi supports OGG Video, WebM, and a range of other formats. Additionally, more support for for video formats is available via gstreamer plugins. Pitivi is also tightly integrated with the GNOME Desktop, so the UI will feel at home among the other newer applications on Fedora Workstation.
Installing Pitivi on Fedora
Pitivi is available in the Fedora Repositories. On Fedora Workstation, simply search and install Pitivi from the Software application.
Alternatively, install Pitivi using the following command in the Terminal:
sudo dnf install pitivi
Basic Editing
Pitivi has a wide range of tools built-in to allow quick and effective editing of your clips. Simply import videos, audio, and images into the Pitivi media library, then drag them onto the timeline. Additionally, pitivi allows you to easily split, trim, and group parts of clips together, in addition to simple fade transitions on the timeline.
Transitions and Effects
In addition to a basic fade between two clips, Pitivi also features a range of different transitions and wipes. Additionally, there are over a hundred effects that can be applied to either videos or audio to change how the media elements are played or displayed in your final presentation
Pitivi also features a range of other great features, so be sure to check out the tour on their website for a full description of the features of the awesome Pitivi.
Dimitri V
Btw, Pitivi is available also as a flatpak; to install via command line:
sudo flatpak install flathub org.pitivi.Pitivi
Thibault Saunier
Also note that the recommended way to install is using the official flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.pitivi.Pitivi
Dimitri V
I think you mean “note” instead of “not”; could confuse some people… 🙂
Clément Verna
I have edited the original comment 🙂
Tim Lauridsen
Other great alternatives for video editing is Shortcut, Openshot and Kdelive all exists as flatpaks
mythcat
Read more about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
All software use the FFmpeg library!
Jack
If I try to install pitivi it seems I have to install a lot of dependencies including texlive. It’ quite odd, isn’t it?
Alex
Do you have a screenshot?
Jack
https://i.postimg.cc/GmVScn8z/Schermata-da-2018-10-26-21-21-37.png
As you can see there are a lot of dependecies including three texlive packages
Alex
Indeed. Could you please get in touch with the “point of contact” person for the “pitivi” package in Fedora about this: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pitivi#
Paul W. Frields
@Jack: @Alex: I see no cause for concern here. The python3-matplotlib library, required by pitivi, brings in these dependencies. The matplotlib library is useful in other contexts beyond pitivi and this isn’t an error. I imagine if a few extra MB of disk space is a problem, running pitivi will present other difficulties. 🙂
Jack
Of course it’s not a problem to install few mb of packages (also because I have already install the entire texlive suite from tug site). I didn’t know that texlive is a dependence of python3-matplotlib (at least in fedora, I didn’t found the same with other distro), maybe it’s a recommended package. I’m quite new with fedora, I’ll try to understand if in Fedora there’s difference between dependencies and recommended package
Peter Braet
i use qwinff (rpmfusion-free repository) to convert the “videos.MTS” from my camera to another format for Pitivi to work with.
Alex
You should be able to use MTS files as they are, make sure you installed all the optional dependencies of the pitivi package. Another option is to install pitivi with flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.pitivi.Pitivi
For the best video editing experience, right-click the imported files and choose “proxy” to create optimized media.