Vivia - The new kid on the block

Vivia is a free editing system that's fairly new on the block.

As a result it has some fairly big issues (more about that below).

However the thing it has going for it is that it is still being developed and should mature into quite a nice free tool

Problems

At the moment there are 2 major issues with this software

a) It is still beta release software and therefore buggy and unstable
b) It only works in PAL countries. This means if you're in America or the Far East you wont be able to use this software on your DV footage.

Here's the feature list from the website

Overview:

* Efficient and easy editing of clips and transitions * "Multi-cam" edit mode: support for natural editing of scenes that were recorded by multiple cameras simultaneously, as is typical in music videos and interviews * Support for multiple "scenes" in a single movie project

Supported input file formats:

* Video: PAL DV (avi or dv) * Still images: bmp, gif, jpg, png, pbm, pgm, ppm, svg, xbm, xpm

Editing:

* Undo/redo * Real-time view of changes while editing transitions * Crash recovery. If the program shuts down unexpectedly, you can still recover your previous changes

Transitions:

* Cut * Cross fade

Effects:

* Fade in * Fade out

Export:

* Export a scene to PAL DV AVI

Summary
If you're running Linux machine and based in a PAL country, want basic editing and transitions and the ability to output to PAL DV AVI's then this is the tool for you.


Download it here
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