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A way to have Custom Effect UI - Pitivi

In my previous post, I described ‘how’ I managed to port nekohayo and thiblahute’s work towards providing an interface for adding custom widgets for effects in Pitivi. In this, I’ll tell you ‘what’ it is that I have done in my first month of Google Summer of Code. The initial...

Not rebasing an old feature branch

Ultimately, my aim was to provide an interface, at the code level, for developers (rather designers) to improve the GUI of video effects. GStreamer effects are very beautifully handled in Pitivi, the main focus was to use this existing underlying infrastructure on top of which a way of easily adding...

Looking forward to a summer of bliss

As much as open source is about free and open software, it is also about community and GNOME is one big family! I started contributing to GNOME Pitivi, a video editor, in late January. Thanks to the extremely helpful current maintainers, Alexandru Băluț (aleb) and Thibault Saunier (thiblahute) I was...

Exploring open waters - Picard 1.4

During the winter holidays of December, I decided to finally step into the world of open source. I made a list of organistions that I wanted to contribute to and the top three were Mozilla, Metabrainz and GNOME. Mostly because of the excellent community around these organisations. I had made...