Pitivi Review

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Pros

Pro
Free and open source

Pitivi uses CreativeCommons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with source code available on Gnome's source code page.

Pro
GTK based

Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.

Pro
Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg

Cons

Con
Encoding and decoding is not hardware-accelerated

The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.

Con
No way to modify the speed of a clip

The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.

Con
Lacks proxy editing

The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.

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Pitivi Review

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Pros

Pro Free and open source

Pro GTK based

Pro Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg

Cons

Con Encoding and decoding is not hardware-accelerated

Con No way to modify the speed of a clip

Con Lacks proxy editing

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Free and open source

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GTK based

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Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg

Con
Encoding and decoding is not hardware-accelerated

Con
No way to modify the speed of a clip

Con
Lacks proxy editing