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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'm aware of Cinelerra, but I admit I haven't been able to fully comprehend its development model or release cycle enough, yet, to confidently build a production on it. That said, there are lots of interesting video editing projects out there that I haven't included in this article, because I wanted to limit the scope to what I consider to be reliable, pragmatic, dependable, and all-round above-average options.
...and that's why most of the movies in theaters today were made on 6-year old Linux distros running software from 2 years ago. Much of the multimedia industry prefers stability over new features. I am very slow to update my production software, and OpenShot (which I use for teaching rather than for production) is no exception.
I didn't include PiTiVi because its website indicated that its latest release was 0.98, 2 years ago. While I favour slow-moving software, it concerned me that there was *no* development activity. Now that I'm looking closer, I see that there was a release just 6 months ago and that actually it's just their website that's more or less unmaintained, not the project itself. You're right; PiTiVi is worth a look, although I'd want to use it on at least one or two real-life projects before writing down an opinion.