Editing Digital Video with PiTiVi

Digital video cameras have become increasingly common in recent years, and still digital cameras (and even phones!) have also become more impressive in terms of their video-handling capabilities. In addition, more and more people are sharing their video creations on YouTube—it's fair to say that home digital video is just about ubiquitous. Linux support for video processing is also catching up, though it's not quite 100 percent there.

Ubuntu's default video editor is called PiTiVi (Figure 16-6). You can run it by going to the Applications menu and selecting Sound & VideoPitivi Video Editor.

PiTiVi video editor

Figure 16-6. PiTiVi ...

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