When comparing Pitivi vs Cinelerra HV, the Slant community recommends Pitivi for most people. In the question“What are the best video editors for Linux?” Pitivi is ranked 7th while Cinelerra HV is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Pitivi is:
Pitivi uses CreativeCommons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with source code available on [Gnome's source code page](https://download.gnome.org/sources/pitivi/).
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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.