Lack of things in Gimp

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:02:34 -0200,
   Lailah <lailahfsf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hello everybody!
>
>            I found that Gimp in Fedora has less functions that in other
>distributions  (like Fuduntu or Ubuntu).  In example, I can find video
>and animation edition, and a lot of scripts.
>
>Why is this happening?  How can I solve it?

These sound like features that need patented codecs that can't be freely 
redistributed.