VideoLan Movie Creator (VLMC) Gets Video Effects [PPA]

VLMC (VideoLan Movie Creator) is a new video editor, currently in alpha, built by the VLC developers.

Did you know we maintain a daily builds VLMC PPA? I bet most of you forgot because we haven't published anything about it in a while. The development is quite slow, but something very exiting landed in VLMC recently: video effects.

Update: The latest VLMC makes use of frei0r-plugins, a simple cross-platform framework for video effects that provides filters, mixers and generators by means of minimalistic plugin API. That means that the effects might have been available in VLMC for a while but I didn't notice this until now. The effects include 3dflippo, baltan, color distance, edgeglow, luminance, transparency, vertigo, water and lots more.

Install VLMC in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

Unfortunately the Lucid builds are not working as I need a stable VLC 1.1.x PPA for Lucid to use for building VLMC, but to install it in Maverick you can use our daily builds PPA - don't worry, it won't break anything as the PPA only has VLMC.

To add the VLMC daily builds PPA and install VLMC in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/vlmc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlmc frei0r-plugins

Please note that VLMC is still in alpha, so expect to find a lot of bugs!