As we are moving into a media centric world video editing is increasing in importance. Collabora Multimedia aims to address this need with our services and consulting services for video editing functionality. Collabora targets the problem for both the desktop, through our PiTiVi desktop video editor, for the embedded world through our video editing libraries for GStreamer.
Consumers are growing to expect that phones and other handheld devices will ship with basic editing functionality.Therefore, we expect that PiTiVi is a core requirement for device manufacturers who want to stay competitive. Our editing libraries aims towards low CPU overhead and as minimal loss of quality through editing.
On the desktop, in addition to our support and development of the open source PiTiVi version, we also offer a PiTiVi Pro version for commercial customers. It includes various extras such as support for proprietary codecs, functionality guarantees and support.
Development History
Edward Hervey started the PiTiVi project in 2004, with the goal of creaing an easy-to-use open source video editor. In 2007, Collabora announced its Multimedia division, set up by leading open source multimedia experts, including Edward Hervey. Edward continues to maintain PiTiVi, with active contributions from Collabora Multimedia's Brandon Lewis and Alessandro Decina.
Since PiTiVi builds on the GStreamer multimedia framework, it is uniquely positioned to quickly add flexible editing solutions to the Linux desktop. Every improvement and new feature added to GStreamer automatically benefits PiTiVi, whether those features improve playback, transcoding, streaming or recording. This rich feature set means that Collabora customers use PiTiVi components even for server-side solutions such as automated transcoding.
Thanks to GStreamer and Collabora Multimedia, PiTiVi was the first open source video editor to add full support for the SMPTE standardized MXF container format, essential for integrating into the workflow of a professional content company. PiTiVi also supports the VC-2 codec, which aims to be used for close to lossless storage of digital content and editing processes.
In addition to the direct work on improving PiTiVi undertaken by Collabora Multimedia we also undertake efforts such as trying to get a standardized mapping for VC-2 inside the MXF container format.
More information
For information on PiTiVi, including design documentation and developer information, see the PiTiVi web site.
Developer biography
Edward Hervey
Edward Hervey founded PiTiVi during his final year at the EPITECH engineering school in Paris. He soon found that PiTiVi's needs required improvements to the GStreamer framework, and began developing them. At Collabora, Edward manages the PiTiVi team and continues to contribute substantially to the GStreamer project