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Pitivi 0.95 Release "Enfant suisse" Video Editor on Ubuntu 16.04 linux
http://wiki.pitivi.org/wiki/0.95

Pitivi (originally called PiTiVi) is an open source, non-linear video editor for Linux developed by various contributors, with support also available from Collabora. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. Pitivi is designed to be intuitive video editing software that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment. It aims to be "a powerful, flexible video editor that can appeal to prosumers and professionals."

The Pitivi team is proud to announce the fifth beta release of Pitivi toward the 1.0 version, This is mostly a incremental bugfixing release, so make sure to see the 0.91, 0.92, 0.93 and 0.94 release notes to get the full picture.

This is considered a beta release. The focus remains on making Pitivi stable, that's why the next release will bring proxy editing.

Pitivi works well for us and we make nice movies with it. Try it out, have fun and report detailed bugs for issues you may encounter!

Blog post associated with this release: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2015/11/19/pitivi-0-95-enfant-suisse/

The timeline has been rewritten
The timeline has been rewritten using plain GTK+. This means that we do not depend on the Clutter library anymore; it was causing many problems for our use cases.

The clip transformation box has been reimplemented
The transformation tool was previously dropped when Pitivi was ported to the GStreamer Editing Services. It has now been reimplemented. While its current state means that it lost a few features compared to its previous incarnation, it should be more robust and much simpler to maintain.

New video sink
The glimagesink (video rendering widget) was replaced by the new gtk(gl)sink, which integrates more cleanly inside the application and avoids various bugs we used to encounter while embedding the old sink into Gtk.

Direct importing to the timeline
It is now possible to import external files directly into the timeline. Just drag & drop from your favorite file manager to create a clip on the timeline.

Integration with GstValidate
With this new release, we serialize all the operations done by the user as GstValidateScenarios (more details here), allowing us to reproduce bugs much more easily. See the bug reporting page for details on how to create scenario files for testing.

Fits small screens again
We heard 1024x768 is still a thing, so we added some tricks to adapt the UI when running on small screens.


Requirements changes
We dropped our dependency on Clutter
We now depend on GStreamer 1.6
We now depend on the new gtksink (from gst-plugins-bad 1.6)
Generally speaking, you can refer to the bottom of Pitivi's check.py for the dependencies' versions specific to a given release. See also dependencies for additional tips.


Known issues
Some users might experience a playback performance regression with the new timeline. See ticket T3348 for details, to subscribe yourself or provide feedback for the investigation.
The title editor UI is still quite primitive. Please join us to make it work up to your expectations! See the existing title editor bugs.
Translations are not all fully up to date.
The automatic clip aligner feature does not work. We need someone to port it to use our new audio waveforms processing module.
No dialog to install missing codecs after discovering clips, and no error gets raised in that case. This means that the clip will "appear" to have imported correctly, but if you try inserting it into the timeline you may get errors in the background or Pitivi's UI may hang.
See the list of currently known issues