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How to Install Pitivi Video Editor 2020.09 in Ubuntu Linux

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Pitivi Video Editor 2020.09 released. Here is how to install Pitivi Video Editor in Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Systems.

Pitivi is a video editor for Linux Ubuntu Systems. With a non-modal editing workflow, a framerate-independent and playhead-centric timeline, Pitivi allows you quickly and accurately trim, split and review your scenes. Pitivi’s ripple and roll editing features allow spending more time on storytelling and less time on “pushing clips around”.

Some other features include:

  • Accepts any file formats supported by the GStreamer multimedia framework
  • Can animate hundreds of special effects and filters with keyframable properties
  • Ability to set custom aspect ratios, framerates and rendering presets
  • Easy to use crossfades and SMPTE transitions
  • Multihead-friendly with detachable user interface components

Changes in version 2020.09

This release includes lots of new features, originating from GSoC internships, from University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Soft-261 class Spring 2020 and from individual contributors. If you’re interested to contribute, please get in touch with us.

  • A plugin system allows extending the Pitivi functionality medium-term, targeted for teams of editors.
  • A developer console plugin allows interacting with the project in a Python console.
  • Custom UI replaces the automatically generated UI for a handful of effects.
  • Easy Ken-Burns effect.
  • The new Greeter perspective replaces the Welcome wizard dialog and allows a slick selection of a recently opened project.
  • When being resized, the Viewer shows the percent of the actual widget size in relation to the project video size.
  • The Viewer size snaps at 50% when being resized.
  • Scaled proxies if optimized media is too much for your machine.
  • Timeline markers.
  • Support for nested timelines by importing entire XGES files as a clip.
  • The Effects Library has been redesigned to allow quick access to effects.
  • Ability to favorite effects in the Effects Library.
  • Improved workflow for adding effects.
  • The refreshed clip effects UI allows working on multiple effects at a time.
  • Refactored Media Library using same logic for different view modes.
  • Refactored Render Dialog UI to avoid overwhelming people. Tell us what you think about it.
  • Restoring the editing state when reopening a project.
  • Safe areas visualization in the Viewer.
  • Easy alignment for video clips.
  • Composition guidelines in the Viewer.
  • Solid color clips.
  • Ability to mute or hide an entire layer.
  • Interactive intro so newcomers get familiar with the names of the UI elements.
  • The action search is a shortcut to everything possible in the timeline, if you can find it. Press “/”.
  • New keyboard shortcuts for pros.

This release includes lots of new features, originating from GSoC internships spanning four years, from University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s SOFT-261 class Spring 2020 and from individual contributors.

GSoC 2017

  • A plugin system allows extending the Pitivi functionality medium-term, targeted for teams of editors.
  • A developer console plugin allows interacting with the project in a Python console.
  • Mechanism for supporting custom UI for effects issues of the automatically generated UI.
  • Custom UI for the frei0r-filter-3-point-color-balance and alpha effects.
  • Easy Ken-Burns effect.

GSoC 2018

  • The new Greeter perspective replaces the Welcome wizard dialog and allows a slick selection of a recently opened project.
  • When being resized, the Viewer shows the percent of the actual widget size in relation to the project video size.
  • The Viewer size snaps at 50% when being resized.
  • Scaled proxies if optimized media is too much for your machine.

GSoC 2019

  • Timeline markers.
  • Support for nested timelines by importing entire XGES files as a clip.
  • The Effects Library has been redesigned to allow quick access to effects.
  • Ability to favorite effects in the Effects Library.
  • Improved workflow for adding effects.
  • The refreshed clip effects UI allows working on multiple effects at a time.

GSoC 2020

  • Refactored Media Library to use the same logic for the different view modes.
  • Refactored Render Dialog UI to avoid overwhelming people. Tell us what you think about it.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s SOFT-261 class, Spring 2020
  • Restoring the editing state when reopening a project.
  • Safe areas visualization in the Viewer.
  • Easy alignment for video clips.
  • Composition guidelines in the Viewer.
  • Solid color clips.
  • Ability to mute an entire layer.

Install

Run the following commands to install Pitivi video editor on Linux Ubuntu:

sudo apt install flatpak
sudo apt update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
sudo apt update
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.pitivi.Pitivi

Once installed, run the following command to opena nd use Pitivi:

flatpak run org.pitivi.Pitivi