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LiVES is a video editing system and VJ tool. LiVES is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ. LiVES project uses commonly available tools (Mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it should work on most Unix-like systems.It runs under Linux, BSD, IRIX, and openMosix (and soon OS X/Darwin). It works with almost all types of video, and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder tool. Here are some key features of "LiVES": PLATFORM: · Stable and well tested core. · Fully cross platform for Linux and many flavours of Unix (e.g. BSD, openMosix, IRIX). Runs on at least x86, amd64, ppc and xbox/x86. · The LiVES audio/video platform is now custom extendable through RFX plugins. See the Custom RFX page for more details. · Allows quick and easy prototyping of new tools, utilities, effects, transitions and more, using the included RFX builder window. · Plugins can be written in Perl, thus allowing O/S level access to individual frames within clips. · Will scale for high/low end hardware. Can be split into client/server components. · Control every function in LiVES remotely using OSC protocol. · Versions for many linux distributions: Mandrake, Gentoo, Suse, Rock Linux + bootable CD from dyne.org. Debian package coming soon. Has also been tested succesfully with latest Fedora Core. · 100% original, non-proprietary code. VIDEO: · Loading and editing of most video formats (via mplayer decoder). · Smooth playback at variable frame rates, forward and in reverse. Display framerate can be controlled independantly of playback framerate. · Cut and paste of frames within and between clips. · Saving/re-encoding of clips, selections, and individual frames. · Lossless backup/ restore. · Streaming input and output. · Real time blending of clips (chroma and luma blends). · Can handle in/out streams in yuv4mpeg format. Streams can be piped from stdout into other applications. · Supports fixed and variable framerates. Playback rate can be smoothly adjusted independant of display rate. · Ability to 'scratch' with video - that is to move smoothly backwards and forwards through it, and to record yourself doing so. · Playback can use LiVES' own internal player, there is also a high performance fullscreen SDL playback plugin · Support for RGB24, YUV420 (TV), and UYVY palettes, horizontal chroma subsampling is implemented. · Ability to edit many filetypes and sources including remotely located files (with mplayer/ffmpeg libraries), and directories of images. · Real time capture/recording of interactive (via mouseclicks) external windows. · Encode to any of the 50+ output formats which are now supported (e.g. mjpeg, mpeg4, mpeg1/2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, ogg/mp4 ogm, Matroska mkv, dv, swf, Ogg Theora, Dirac, MNG, Snow, xvid, and even animated GIF !) · Encoder formats can be extended through the encoder plugin API. · LiVES will suggest the best settings for saving to each format. · Resampling of video (time stretching) to any frame rate (1 to 200 fps); option to auto-resample or speed up/slow down between clips. · Ability to instantly alter the playback speed of video and audio independently. · Rotation, resizing and trimming of video clips. · Deinterlacing, subtitle removal. · Instant saving/loading of clips for performances/presentations. AUDIO: · Can load mp3, ogg and wav files. · LiVES can also load tracks directly off CD to use with your video (using cdda2wav). · Ability to save audio selections, and append audio. · Sound can be trimmed to fit video selections. · Cutting and pasting of audio within and between clips. · Resampling of audio (rate, channels, sample size, signedness and endianness); audio is auto-resampled between clips. · Supports (auto)inserting of silence and deletion of audio sections. EFFECTS/TRANSITIONS: · Many effects, including random/targeted zooming, panning of video, colour cycling and colorisation/colour filtering. · Merging/compositing of frames is possible: e.g. frame-in-frame, fade in/out and transparency. · Real time previews as the effect is processing. · Support for the LiViDO effect plugin architecture which will allow sharing of realtime effects with other applications. Experimental support for this framework is already included. · Use real time effects to blend clips together, regardless of frame size or fps. Luma and chroma blending are currently supported. · Multiple real time effects are now possible during playback (VJ mode), these can also be rendered to frames. · Effects and transitions are now fully customisable using the RFX builder window. · Effects/blends can also be applied to incoming streams in real time. · Dynamic loading of effects. EXTRAS: · Simple and intuitive menu layout. · I18N text support. Translations into French and Czech are included. · RFX builder allows rapid prototyping of new effects, transitions utilities and tools. Custom RFX scripts can be exported to share with others · or downloaded and imported. Test scripts are run in a sandbox to allow safe testing of new plugins. · Midi sequence synchronisation (start/stop). · Can load single images or directories of images in numerical order and assemble them into videos or slideshows. · Ability to play music through xmms (including random selection of tracks). · Toys ! What's New in This Release: · Make keyboard more responsive in fs mode. · Fix hang/crash in pulse audio player with pa 0.9.19. · Fix -aplayer startup opts (regression). · Stop blocks from moving when they are double clicked in mt window. · Fix audio channel mismatch when reloading mt auto backup. · Allow setting of start and end frames for clips in the mt window. · Fix warnings from gcc 4.4 * · Fix crash when recording with audio gets activated during silent clip. * · Fix compilation with ENABLE_JACK undefined. (thanks Holgero and others). * · Add new realtime transitions: iris rectangle, iris circle, 4 way split, dissolve. · Add -debug startup option to help analyse crash situations. · Updated translations for Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish.
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