Comment 8 for bug 707239

You don't need programming knowledge to run the git version, but you do need to be a little bit comfortable to the command line to issue the following commands (taken from the website's download page):

sudo apt-get build-dep pitivi # gets all the dependencies, but also make sure you have intltool installed
git clone git://git.pitivi.org/git/pitivi.git # download the dev version
cd pitivi
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make # only need to do this once (if it works)
bin/pitivi