Pitivi Video editor tutorial

[donicaben]

Thank you!!

[6thhokage]

I finished editing my video. When I click render, It shows that its rendering but does not do anything. I've waited for an hour but it still shows that its rendering. How long does it take to render a 3 minute video. Or did I do something wrong??

[twocorners]

thanks for this tutorial :) i imported an image sequence (PNG) one image at a time, and anything that's put in the timeline doesn't show in the playback window. what am i doing wrong?

[sidhartRON]

@twocorners Does the image sequence contain very high res images?

also check out my video on how to install the latest version of PiTiVi which works better with image sequences!

[twocorners]

@sidhartRON they are 640 x 480...is that big?? lol i have no idea

[Demolishization]

it will not let me split the video and the audio help! 

[Anandsingh00]

can we create an video from multiple png files using this video editor tool

[sidhartRON]

@Anandsingh00 Yes obviously. I say watch my video on how to get the latest version of pitivi. It will allow you to add many transitions and effects.

[canucksrule50]

hi do u know how to save on pitivi I saved my file and it ended up as some wriiten document pls. reply!!!!

[sidhartRON]

@canucksrule50 you click the render icon to save the video. clicking save will only save the project file which can be imported only into pitivi.

[erikadabomb33]

@sidhartRON i presws that and it send me to output file???

[pat20105]

people must have a hard time understanding what his saying

[sidhartRON]

@pat20105 really was i that bad? anyways thanks for noticing it i'll try to do better from now on!

give me more suggestions if you can.

[marhaonline]

Thanks a lot for sharing these tips... I want to know how long your rendering took on this movie. I have an ogv file (28 minutes). After trimming from about 20 places, it should be only about 8 minutes. But even after 4 hours, the rendering is not finished. PiTiVi states that it will take another 8 hours to go! Is this normal?

[sidhartRON]

@marhaonline rendering depends a lot on the power of you processor and the format in which the video is being rendered. But a 1080p video on a basic dual core pc with 2 gigs of ram should finish rendering the 8 minute video in under 2 hrs. So i would say choose a rather light format to render like mpeg-2. Try to modify the video render settings to get the video renderd faster.

[whythewar1]

@sidhartRON When I Merge clips, it doesn't work, it just stops at the end of a specific clip, and there all Fvl's it's pretty frustrating.

[NikolaGB]

Thanks man

[TheOsco11]

Can you add titles or writing to the video with Pitivi?

[sidhartRON]

@TheOsco11 It's a pretty basic video editor. it doesn't have any function to add titles. But if you need to do it then you can use gimp to create a title on a transparent background and save it in .png format and then add that image to the timeline on top of the video where you want it to appear!

sorry for the late reply .. youtube doesn't show all the comments on my video in my inbox so i checking out each of my videos for unanswered comments!

[JessePeterz]

I was about to write that when I played the vid in movie player it was all black but then it started, the first 1/2 of the vid is black any help?

[sidhartRON]

@JessePeterz Are you sure that when you dragged the video on to the timeline of pitivi you dragged it to the exact starting point of the timeline..

The other posibility you did the fade to black part wrong. You must have dragged the small box on the video down to the bottom but you forgot to add the keyframe a little bit further up the video .

[JessePeterz]

@sidhartRON

Ya I found that out a couple seconds ago:/ I had the video start later on, Thanks though.

[forgotmypassword465]

thank you sooooo much:)

[sidhartRON]

@forgotmypassword465 you're welcome :)

[cutiepox10]

I can't find it on my thing. It says it's downloaded and stuff, but when I go to "Applications" it doesn't list Sound & Video on it. Help, please?

[sidhartRON]

@cutiepox10 Type Pitivi into the terminal and hit enter. If nothing happens there is an error. Pitivi is available by default but I suggest you use sudo apt-get install pitivi . if you can't get it working !!

[ThePSPFreak10]

whycant i upload the video to youtube ?

[sidhartRON]

@ThePSPFreak10 actully when you render the file and you have to choose a filename you have to add .mp4 (or whatever format you rendered it). Incase you didn't Right click on the file go to properties and rename the file adding .mp4 (or avi or whatever you renderd it in :)

[PcProTips1]

Hey now that I am running Ubuntu I need a new screen recorder cause Camtasia doesn't work. 

[sidhartRON]

@PcProTips1 Ubuntu has better screencasters Recordmydesktop worked best for me....get it from the ubuntu software center...but since you will need to convert the vid before uploading kazam is a less sophisticated but cool screencaster i'll send you a link for kazam in a pm :)

[Live4TheGame2]

whoa audio >.> 

[sidhartRON]

@Live4TheGame2 audio got fuxed up during editing....but i've figured out the mistake ....so when i do the next tutorial its gonna be perfect :)