When comparing Avid Media Composer 8 vs Pitivi, the Slant community recommends Pitivi for most people. In the question“What is the best video editing software?” Pitivi is ranked 9th while Avid Media Composer 8 is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Pitivi is:
Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.
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Pros
Pro Built in 3D footage support
Pro Video can be edited live with no rendering
Pro Multicam editing mode supports up to 9 cameras simultaneously
Pro 64-bit
Pro PC and Mac support
Works on both Windows and OS X.
Pro GTK based
Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.
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 Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg
Cons
Con Expensive, with steep learning curves.
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.