LiVES

LiVES
Developer(s)	Gabriel Finch (Salsaman)
Stable release	1.0.0-pre1 / June 15, 2009
Written in	C, Perl, Python
Operating system	Linux, Darwin/Mac OS X, BSD, IRIX
Type	Video
License	GNU General Public License
Website	lives.sourceforge.net

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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). There are also versions for BSD, and it will run under Mac OS X/Darwin and IRIX.

[edit] Development

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

The project began in late 2002, and it is expected that the 1.0 version will be released in July 2009.

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

LiVES was selected as one of just 10 finalists in the category of Best Project for Multimedia in the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards 2009.

The LiVES application allows the user to manipulate video in realtime and in non-realtime. The application also has features which go beyond traditional video editing applications - for example, it can be controlled and monitored remotely over a network, and it has facilities for streaming to and from another copy of LiVES.

LiVES uses a system of plugins for effects, decoders, encoders and video playback. The APIs for these are now well defined, and the application can be easily extended.