LiVES

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LiVES
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Developed by	Gabriel Finch (Salsaman)
Latest release	0.9.8.12 / May 16, 2008
OS	Linux, Darwin/Mac OS X, BSD, IRIX
Genre	Video
License	GPL
Website	lives.sourceforge.net

LiVES (LiVES is a Video Editing System) is a free software video editing program and VJ tool, released under GNU General Public License. There are binary versions available for most popular Linux distributions (including Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian, Fedora Core, Suse, Slackware and Mandriva).

[edit] Development

The main developer of LiVES is Salsaman (Gabriel Finch), who is also a video artist and international VJ.

The project was begun in late 2002, and it is expected that the 1.0 version will be released sometime in 2008.

On the Freshmeat site, LiVES is listed as the 4th most popular non-linear video editing software ^[1] despite being still a beta release.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ freshmeat.net: Browse project tree - Topic :: Multimedia :: Video :: Non-Linear Editor

[edit] External links

• LiVES Homepage
• LiVES on Freshmeat
• LiVES on EstudioLivre.org
• The book "Video Wiedergabe, Bearbeitung und Streaming unter Linux", Open Source Press, contains a chapter on LiVES.
• Interview with the author for Linux BG magazine, original English version
• Review of LiVES 0.9.6 on Softpedia