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DIVA: A New Home Video Editor

Submitted by Eugenia on Sat, 2005-07-30 16:48. GStreamer
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One of the weaknesses of the Unix application-base is a good, stable and easy to use *home* video editor. Many applications have tried to fill up the void, like Kino and Cinelerra, but with mediocre results for the kind of functionality and ease of use a normal household would expect. This is where DIVA comes in.

Developed by Micha Dominik K (aka MDK), also developer of Monotheka, DIVA is still pre-alpha but it's hoped to become an iMovie-like editor, using C/Gstreamer for the core and Mono/GTK# for the front-end. At the same time, Micha enjoys good competition from the also newly sprang video projects of PiTiVi (GTK+), KFilm (Qt) and OpenME (FLTK).

Check his web site for some Flash demos. The project is part of the Google summer code.

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His name is Michał

Submitted by zdzichu on Tue, 2005-08-02 17:25.

His name is Michał, not Micha. You can use 'l' as last letter of his name.

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This is great news!!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-08-02 16:33.

The flash demo shows Micha is making good progress on this project. I agree that there's finally progress in this area since the apps I'm familiar with, Kino and Avidemux, leave a lot to be desired and all the action in this type of application is going on in the Mac and Windows. I've been closely watchin PiTiVi, Edward said last week in LUGRadio that a new beta may be coming out by late August. I hope that both DIVA and PiTiVi evolve into fim editors of the calibre the commercial software world has to offer. I'm ready to try them, offer my feedback (bug reports), and donations. Heck, I'd be willing to pay the same amount a consumer film editor costs in the Win platform if it was just as good. This is great news for FOSS!