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PiTiVi is an open source non-linear video editor.

PiTiVi is a free, intuitive and featureful movie editor for the Linux desktop.

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How to use Pitivi to insert text in video?

I have started using Pitivi in my Ubuntu 12.04. Now I am able to make or edit videos using it. Can anyone tell me How I can insert text in videos using Pitivi? (Like the way Title Card comes in movies with different text transition effect)
Doon
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Can I use Pitivi to trim a video, without re-encoding it?

I would like to take a video I have and remove some parts of it, that is, produce a new video that is basically the same as the original but removing some parts. Avidemux seems to let you do this easily: just open the video, select a start and end…
Bou
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How do I use mp4mux to create mp4 as recommended by Pitivi?

I'm trying to export video for use with the HTML5 tag. I've already created a nice webm encoding but can't create the equivalent mp4 video. The MP4 option in Pitivi says it's not recommended and produces corrupted MP4 video when I use it. It…
Mark B
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How to fix video rotation in Pitivi?

How do you fix rotated video in Pitivi? When I import video clips into my Pitivi project, they all show up in the correct orientation in the "Media Library" thumbnails, but when I drop them into a track, they'll often appear rotated 90 or 180…
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Any good sites explaining how to use PiTiVi?

I have played around with PiTiVi a bit, but I could still use some help. Are there any good sites explaining how to use PiTiVi?
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Pitivi won't render in 12.04

I've recently upgraded 11.10 to 12.04 and then reinstalled Pitivi and Gstreamer codecs ecxept the extra codecs and regardless of which container,vid codec or aud codec the rendering bar wouldn't move any help would be helpful, and if your wondering…
Felix
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Pitivi poor video quality

I've been trying to use Pitivi to edit videos, but so far have been completely unable to persuade it to render them at anything like the source file quality For example: Source file 1 minute length, bitrate 13.5Mb/s, file size 116.6MB. I have tried…
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Pitivi Crashes Ubuntu after minimising the window

When I try to minimise Pitivi using the minimise button: It crashes all of Ubuntu. By this, I mean the monitor stops receiving an input, then the computer makes the restart noise and it goes onto the log-in screen. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and Pitivi…
Ben Hollier
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Pitivi blank box

Where the layer settings (I think) box should be in Pitivi 0.93 in Ubuntu 14.10, there's only a white box. Terminal output when starting Pitivi: (pitivi:8218): Clutter-WARNING **: clutter_x11_set_use_argb_visual() can only be used before calling…
Chris Willis
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everything disabled in PiTiVi

I'm trying to use PiTiVi... I can import clips from my video camera, but the Render button and all the editing buttons on the bottom toolbar are disabled. I suspect I need to install some packages but which ones? I am not stuck on PiTiVi, but since…
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Using PiTiVi to delete the middle of a video?

I import a video into PiTiVi, drag it to the timeline, split the grouped A/V tracks at the start of where I want to delete and the end, then delete the middle. The audio track does what I expect, but all the video that used to be there stays there,…
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PiTiVi crashes with segmentation fault on importing .mp4 files

My video camera records onto a memory card which mounts in Ubuntu with no problem. I see a bunch of .mp4 files, but what software do I use now? I installed PiTiVi and repeatedly tried to import the folder of .mp4 files but it keeps crashing after…
SpashHit
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Pitivi video editor (gstreamer errors)

The error messages are not helpful in diagnosing what's broken here: What can be done to make Pitivi and gstreamer work better together? Should I just give up on Pitivi and go with another tool? ERROR [15963] [0x7fb986aed700] "
The Programmer
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Cropping videos to perfectly fit YouTube 16:9 dimensions with PiTiVi or Kdenlive?

I'm using RecordMyDesktop to generate videos for some tutorials and I've tried using quite a lot of video editing programs but haven't been able to get these videos to fit perfectly into the YouTube dimensions (without the black margins). How can I…
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Comparison of various Pitivi video editor project settings

I love Pitivi video editor for being able to deal with so many different video formats. Under project->project settings->export to, there are multiple containers, video codecs and audio codecs. What are the pros and cons of these options?
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