How to install Lives 2.6.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

To install LiVES 2.6.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

LiVES application is a realtime video performance and non-linear editing tool. It edits and makes video without formats, frame sizes, or framerates issues. It is also used for live recording. Installation of Live video editor is explained in this article. In this tutorial am going to install Lives version 2.6.0.

Features

• Stable and well tested core.
• Fully cross platform for Linux and many flavours of Unix (e.g. BSD, openMosix, IRIX, OSX/Darwin).
• Runs on at least x86, amd64, x86_64, i64, sparc, hppa, ppc and xbox/x86.
• The LiVES audio/video platform is now custom extendable through RFX plugins. See the Custom RFX page for more details.
• Allows quick and easy prototyping of new tools, utilities, effects, transitions and more, using the included RFX builder window.
• Plugins can be written in Perl, thus allowing O/S level access to individual frames within clips.
• Will scale for high/low end hardware. Can be split into client/server components.
• Control every function in LiVES remotely using OSC protocol.
• Packages for most major linux distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Suse, Fedora Core, Rock Linux, Source Mage, Alt Linux, and Dynebolic.
• 100% original, non-proprietary code.

Installing LiVES

The installation of LiVES requires the addition of its repository. It can be done by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp6k3x9475/secring.gpg'  created
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gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Once it is added, update the machine by invoking the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kritalime/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
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 Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/noobslab/apps/ubuntu xenial InRelease                          
Get:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]                 
Fetched 306 kB in 3s (84.7 kB/s)                                   
Reading package lists... Done 

Now is the time to install the LiVES package. Use the following command for the same purpose.

root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# apt-get install lives
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  dvgrab ffmpeg frei0r-plugins icedax libavdevice-ffmpeg56 libavfilter-ffmpeg5
  libavresample-ffmpeg2 libboost-regex1.58.0 libdc1394-22 libebml4v5 libflite1 libgavl1
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Setting up dvgrab (3.5-2) ...
Setting up rtmpdump (2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d-1build1) ...
Setting up youtube-dl (2016.02.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

LiVES has been installed, open the Ubuntu dashboard to launch the LiVES

LiVES video editor is launched successfully and enjoy editing your favorite videos

It was an easy installation, wasn' t it? LiVES is a simple but a powerful tool to edit all your videos. Editing your videos through LiVES is quite simple as you don' t need to worry about the formats, frame sizes, or frame-rates. You can create stunning videos by simply mixing and switching the clips from the keyboard. Also, you can add the video effects to enhance your videos. The clip editor lets you to trim and edit your clips, and you can combine your edited clips together using the multitrack timeline. Also, LiVES lets you to record a video in real time and edit it later.