When comparing Pitivi vs Wondershare Filmora, the Slant community recommends Pitivi for most people. In the question“What are the best video editors for Linux?” Pitivi is ranked 7th while Wondershare Filmora is ranked 13th. 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.
Con Multiple video tracks not supported
Con Doesn't support selected media length
It cannot view media length.
Con Doesn't load resource when project is loaded
Con Preview freeze on splitting clip
You cannot preview after split clip.
Con Transition not customizable
You cannot customize transition such as duration.
