Vivia - The Video Editor

Vivia is a video editing program for Linux and Windows that offers very user-friendly editing of DV video material. Vivia is Free Software with a GPL license.

News

2007-04-12: Hi all. Just wanted to say I'll have time to work on Vivia again within a week or two. I've greatly missed working on Vivia during all these moving preparations, so see you again soon! :)
2007-02-11: I haven't been able work on Viva much in the last couple weeks (as is obvious from the countdown chart below). Most of my free time is currently consumed with organizing a move to another country (hopefully Switzerland) along with finding a new job.
2007-01-09: The Window's installer for v0.1.1 has been released. See the Download page for more information.
2007-01-06: I haven't had the opportunity to test the Window's installer for v0.1.1 yet, but I should have the chance on Monday or Tuesday next week. There are problems compiling v0.1.1 with a) Qt 4.2 and b) AMD64 Linux system -- if you're using either of those, please wait for v0.1.2 to be released.
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Next Release v0.1.2

0.1.2 will provide improved facilities for adding media files to a project. It also has a redesigned UI to fix problems found during user testing of v0.1.1.

In the graph to the left, the green area represents the number of finished tasks and the red area represents the number of tasks remaining till the next milestone is reached. When the red area reaches zero, a new release will be made.

Features

Efficient and easy editing of movie clips and transitions
"Multi-cam" edit mode: support for natural editing of scenes that were recorded by multiple cameras simultaneously, as is typical in music videos and interviews
Support for multiple movies in a single project

Important Missing Features

Vivia is a young project and is still missing some important features that will probably limit its usefulness to you at this time. These deficiencies will be addressed in future software releases:

Only supports PAL (no NTSC) (to be addressed in v.0.2)
Only supports DV files (either raw or AVI) and image files (to be addressed in v.0.2)
Only supports export into a DV-encoded AVI file; further conversion could be done with another program (to be addressed in v.0.2)
No support for music tracks (to be addressed in v.0.3)
Very limited number of transitions (to be addressed in v.0.4)
Titles must be created in an graphics program (to be addressed in v.0.4)
Does not offer video capture; that needs to be done with another program (to be addressed in v.0.5)

Future

The following is a rough outline of the features planned for future releases:

0.1.2: Basic improvements to resource management
0.2: Support all video formats for input and output (in particular NTSC)
0.2.1: Code quality improvement
0.2.2: Improve transition support
0.2.3: Port improvements to multicam mode
0.3: Support extra sound tracks
0.3.1: Translation support, dynamic help, and program manual
0.4: Titler, optimize transitions using OpenGL
0.5: DV video capture
0.6: Cleanup, refactoring (BETA)
0.7: Embeddable scenes, subtitles, chapter markers
0.9: Unit tests
1.0: UI enhancements, add some video and audio effects
2.0: Add storyboard mode, picture-in-picture
3.0: DVD authoring

Highest priority is given to the features necessary to make Vivia a complete solution for easy movie creation. This will include everything from importing video to creating DVDs. It is targeted at desktop users rather than video professionals, but two advanced features that are planned are transcribing tools and motion capture.

Contact and Support

For questions and comments, you can either use our SourceForge forums, issue tracker, or mailing list. You can send email to the mailing list at:
vivia-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Resources:

Edit Clip:

Edit Cut:

Multicam Clips:

Multicam + Output: