How to install Lives video editor 2.8.5 on Ubuntu 16.04

How to install Lives video editor 2.8.5 on Ubuntu 16.04

LiVES application is a realtime 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.

Features

• Frame accurate cutting and pasting within and between clips.
• Saving/re-encoding of clips, selections, and individual frames.
• Lossless backup/restore.
• Can handle in/out streams in LiVES to LiVES or yuv4mpeg format. Streams can be piped from stdout into other application
• Loading and editing of almost any video format (via libav or mplayer decoder).
• Smooth playback at variable frame rates, forward and in reverse. Display framerate can be controlled independantly of playback framerate
• Encoder formats can easily be extended through the encoder plugin API.

Installation procedure

To begin with the installation procedure, add the lives packages into repository via ppa.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# 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: /tmp/tmpq3nsg8bm/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 852541CB: public key " Launchpad PPA for Panda Jim"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

The package is added to the target machine. Now update the machine by using the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/lives/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]    
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]   
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/lives/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [2,280 B]
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Get:84 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse DEP-11 64x64 Icons [230 kB]
Fetched 35.8 MB in 3min 7s (190 kB/s)                                         
AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors.
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the repositories. Install the lives packages and the required plugins.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# 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 esound-common ffmpeg frei0r-plugins i965-va-driver icedax
  liba52-0.7.4 libaacs0 libass5 libaudiofile1 libavcodec-ffmpeg56
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Setting up vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
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) ...

To launch the lives video editor from command prompt. Type the package name in the terminal and run the command.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# lives

The application is running successfully. Now it can be used to edit any type of videos more easily.

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Wasn' t that an easy installation? Lives support over 50 video and audio file formats like MPEG4, MPEG, H.264, MP4, VCD, etc.