LiVES Reviews

It's an excellent program in its own right. The process of converting frames into individual images is a good tool when performing special effects editing and composition, the live VJ features are a nice touch, and the direct connection to the Jack Audio Connection Kit is a very unique feature among video editors in Linux. That being said, the software is very poorly named. This is not a problem in the use of the software, but the use of any search engine to find information on this software package, whether it's to find tutorials or tricks (or solutions to problems) results in a huge amount of false positives. Granted, you can search on specific websites for more specific results, and the addition of Linux in the search can have a better chance of getting something relevant, but this still makes finding information on the tool (outside of its own website) difficult at best. All in all, I hope to see more of this package, and especially to eventually see a more unique name that makes it more searchable over all.

Amazing tool. Found it very useful and very helpful.

Best tool for video editing. Try it and love it.

It works. It supports pretty much everything you can think of. It doesn't crash in the hands of a casual use

Perfect open source project! 10x!

The whole thing configures successfully, compiles without a single error, and installs

Best soft in the niche.

This is surely one of the best open source projects.

More easier than adobe premier :)

What di I think of Lives? It's a PoS that gives Linux a very bad name. Used LiVES-1.3.3, and then the thing suddenly stops working giving an error: "error loading /usr/lib/lives/plugins/effects/realtime/weed/fourKlives.so". Tried recompiling, but that doesn't fix this. I refuse to reinstall the entire $#@^! op-sys to try to get this running again when it didn't work very well even when it did tun. Don't tell me to try the newest version: been there; done that. That one has code so broken it won't get past compiling main.c, complaining about undefined values. You're not paying me to fix your fscked up code. Don't waste your time, t'aint worth it.

Good useful program

Very easy to use and powerful program

Nice & Simple software for Linux.

Cool project! Very nice.

Works great on Slackware. I'm not a pro at video editing but it's useful for my for editing some videos.