How to install Lives video editor 2.8.6 on Ubuntu 17.04

How to install Lives video editor 2.8.6 on Ubuntu 17.04

LiVES application is a real time video performance and non-linear editing tool. It edits and records videos without formats, frame sizes, or framerates issues. It mixes real time video performance and non-linear editing in one application and also supports live recording. This tutorial explains the installation of Lives video editor on Ubuntu 17.04.

Features

• Smooth playback at variable frame rates, forward and in reverse. Display framerate can be controlled independantly of playback framerate.
• Frame accurate cutting and pasting within and between clips.
• Saving/re-encoding of clips, selections, and individual frames.
• Loading and editing of almost any video format (via libav or mplayer decoder).
• Internal support for RGB24, RGBA32, YUVA, YUV, YUV422, YUV420 (jpeg and mpeg), YUYV, YUV411, and UYVY palettes one step conversion with chroma super and subsampling is implemented.
• Encoder formats can easily be extended through the encoder plugin API.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, add the lives video editor package into repository via ppa.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/lives
 unofficial build of LiVES video editor and VJ tool. Maintained by http://ubuntuhandbook.org
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
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gpg: key 4C1CBE14852541CB: public key " Launchpad PPA for Panda Jim"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

The repositories are added to the target system. update the machine by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease [89.2 kB]
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                                    
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease [89.2 kB]
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Get:42 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [3,980 B]
Get:43 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [2,717 B]
Fetched 986 kB in 6s (150 kB/s)                                                              
Reading package lists... Done

The target machine has been updated. Install the lives and its required plugins packages by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install lives lives-plugins
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  dvgrab ffmpeg frei0r-plugins i965-va-driver icedax liba52-0.7.4 libaacs0 libass5
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 Setting up frei0r-plugins (1.5.0-1) ...
Setting up ffmpeg (7:3.2.4-1build2) ...
Setting up mpv (0.24.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...

Launch the lives package from ubuntu dashboard by typing the package name in the dashboard and click on the icon to run the application.

Start editing the videos with the various features by using this simple Lives editor tool.

The Lives editor' s version is as follows.

The Lives application is running and now the user can use the application for video editing files.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? The Lives editor will suggest the best settings for saving the output format.