VLC Team To Launch Video Editor

By , Published December 23, 2009

The people behind one of the most widely used cross-platform applications ever known to man – VLC – are due to formally announce the addition of a new project to their already impressive roster – the perhaps-not-so-snappily-titled "VideoLAN Movie Creator" (VLMC).

Aiming to do for pro-sumer video editing what VLC did for media playback, the project will support all three main OSes, use the QT framework (as VLC does) and no doubt strive to provide a comfortable and competent application.

VLMC is available to test right now using git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git

Sadly I’ve yet to get the ruddy thing to compile (One keeps getting hit over the head with "'uint32_t' has not been declared" errors. Bite me!) but the VLMC website states that a pre-release version will be winging its way out of the barn very shortly!

Video editors for Linux are like buses €“ you wait ages for one and then loads turn up one behind the other!*

(*this may be a British saying so it's okay to be confused!)

Thanks to Resu

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • MLC

    Ah! Very interesting. This could be a big player if it has enough features. Right now it seems to me that PiTiVi, OpenShot, and KDenLive (the old favorite) will all be very competitive in the next year or so in this emerging field of OSS. I’m so excited to see how it all turns out!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      A little while back there were hardly any user-friendly video editors and now… tons! =D

      Yorba will also be releasing a video editor next year along with the rest of their “suite”.

      • MLC
      • bohoomil

        The more free quality stuff like VLC player around, the better; not only for Linux-oriented users. Those guys have really been doing great job, so we may expect they’ll put all their experience into the new project. BTW, VLC has plenty of features under the hood and seemed to be heading for something more than a player (e.g. the video transformation capabilities) which couldn’t be used to further extent in a tool it was meant to be.

      • Yfrwlf

        Lombard will hopefully be good, yes. It’s very exciting to see a lot of focus on that. The more cross-platform video editors, the easier it is to switch to Linux. Not to mention cross-platform games..

  • Ray

    uint32_t is part of C99. Are you compiling in C99, or GNU99 mode?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/SZ5LRC7HMV235RCLCEBXMEJYVY Bryan

    I’m waiting for the next release of VLC – I tried one of the nightly builds, and it has the media library built in to the main window, and it’s much more integrated.Also, I read somewhere that it would support “remember last playback position” (not sure what the correct terminology is), but I couldn’t see that in the build I had.

  • http://www.manishsinha.net Manish Sinha

    Till now I had the perception that Linux hardly had any user-friendly video-editors.
    Hope this becomes the de-facto standard

  • VLMC

    How to install vlmc?

    INSTALL file:

    Get the sources
    ===============

    git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git

    Building VLMC
    =============

    A typical way to build VLMC is:

    qmake
    make

    Running VLMC
    ============

    ./vlmc

  • Mohan

    This came out nowhere, I really didn’t expect VLC team to be doing something like this.

  • Adam

    I get the uint32_t not declared error too, and was just following the instructions from the INSTALL file. Could it be something to do with running a 64 bit OS? I also get errors about quite a few other things not being declared, eg m_trackId, m_newTrack, libvlc_media_player_t, libvlc_media_t and a lot of others.
    I get other errors too like this one:
    ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘libvlc_event_t’ with no type

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Annoyingly i don’t use x64bit atm but i get the exact same errors.

    • Adam

      I found out what the problem was, see http://vlmc.org/issues/show/121. You need to install the libvlc-dev and libvlccore-dev packages. Now I get an error about libvlc_errmsg not being declared. Perhaps I need newer versions of these libraries.