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Add to SafariWhen comparing Pitivi vs Bandicut, the Slant community recommends Pitivi for most people. In the question“What is the best free video editing software?” Pitivi is ranked 11th while Bandicut is ranked 23rd. 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.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
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
Pro Fastest Video Cutter & Joiner
You can cut, split and join videos in high speed with the hardware accelerated video encoder.
Pro Cut video without losing quality
You can cut certain parts of video without re-encoding/converting.
Pro Easy Video Cutter
You can simply cut video by adjusting its start and end time by moving a slider
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 There's no other formats other than cutting/ splitting, like fonts
Con Watermark
If you use the free version, the Bandicut watermark will be added to the video.
