Partially OT, but does anyone know any open source video editor or better library for merging multiple videos into a 360 degree video? (python would be awesome)
Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
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Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#22Name looks too annoyingly like a typo for "shortcut".
How about "CTTC".
"With CTTC, you can trim your video of boring dialog, and just keep the exciting chase at the end!"
"CTTC is pronounced 'see-tick', or by uttering its expansion: Cut to the Chase."
Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#23Wish there was a Web app to edit video. Upload to S3 and away I would go creating (jump cut) edits which would be fed to ffmpeg to dice up.
That sounds like an incredibly wasteful way of editing. Why would you want to use a web app?
Although video editing requires a level of performance that javascript is not equipped for, a web video editor is not a terrible idea.
I would imagine all the heavy lifting would need to be done by a plugin or a local media encoding server. Portability and a rich editing interface would be the key features. Collaboration and version control would be a nice feature too. I am surprised how terrible the top commercial video editing programs are at simply sharing a project file with another person. Video projects really need the cloud backing the source files and version control.
All of this can be done in native applications, but imagine being able to work on a video project from any modern browser. Maybe you don't even need a local media encoder, the server could render your changes and stream them as needed.
Edit: I would love to be able to edit video on my Macbook Air and have a GPU cluster in the cloud doing all my rendering.
Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally speaking: I think open source/permissive licensing works for libraries . I think it's been amply demonstrated that that doesn't work well at all for applications , and honestly that's the one place where I'll throw a bone to the free software folks.
> I think open source/permissive licensing works for libraries. I think it's been amply demonstrated that that doesn't work well at all for applications PostgreSQL is an application, not a library. It is permissively licensed. It has at least one major proprietary downstream derivative that contributes back significantly to the core. Its usually recognized as a successful open source RDBMS. Please explain to me how i…
I am surprised that you would attempt to stretch the definition of "application", in the consumer-software context in which this discussion very obviously is, to server software.
Well, that's a lie, I'm not surprised.
Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#25Nice! I'm excited about this. Why GPLv3? Why not make the license permissive as possible?
Although permissive licenses are great for libraries, they aren't that good for applications. Why would you let someone make a closed source version of your open source video editor? No, you never ever want that happens, that's when copyleft comes into play, it's ideal for applications like this.
> Why would you let someone make a closed source version of your open source video editor?
GPLv3 is a lot more restrictive than GPLv2 which is already restrictive.
Honestly, if had a GPLvX software and some guy came to me asking for a different license with the agreement that he would support it commercially I would be 100% ok with that (especially if he would agree to push bug fixes back to me - it would be a win-win for everyone).
How would that be any different than hiring a consultant to configure/support it in house? If you are using GPL software privately then you don't have to release the changes or the source. The only difference being is that if a whole company supported the one product they could have multiple people to work on it.
Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#26Name looks too annoyingly like a typo for "shortcut". How about "CTTC". "With CTTC, you can trim your video of boring dialog, and just keep the exciting chase at the end!" "CTTC is pronounced 'see-tick', or by uttering its expansion: Cut to the Chase."
I thought the same. At first I thought typo. Then I thought they took a shotcut on spelling shortcut. Then I realized it was for video apps.
Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds like an incredibly wasteful way of editing. Why would you want to use a web app?
Although video editing requires a level of performance that javascript is not equipped for, a web video editor is not a terrible idea. I would imagine all the heavy lifting would need to be done by a plugin or a local media encoding server. Portability and a rich editing interface would be the key features. Collaboration and version control would be a nice feature too. I am surprised how terrible the top commercial v…
I'm having trouble finding a source at the moment, but I believe that the BBC attempted this a few years ago. They eventually abandoned the project because as the editors needed the full resolution file of everything they were using to ensure the shot was in focus etc., storing them locally was a better option. I can't really see that changing in the future either.
An NLE that checked out files from a remote server and then made edits to a text based file from which anything could be shared would be very useful though.
Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#28I've been using shotcut for over a year and I highly reccomend it. It is leaps and bounds ahead of most Linux-supporting video editors.
Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think open source/permissive licensing works for libraries. I think it's been amply demonstrated that that doesn't work well at all for applications PostgreSQL is an application, not a library. It is permissively licensed. It has at least one major proprietary downstream derivative that contributes back significantly to the core. Its usually recognized as a successful open source RDBMS. Please explain to me how i…
I am surprised that you would attempt to stretch the definition of "application", in the consumer-software context in which this discussion very obviously is, to server software. Well, that's a lie, I'm not surprised.
How about Eclipse? I know non-programmers who use Bioclipse and Knime, just for example.
Maybe those aren't the greatest applications ever, but imagine what it might be like given a different upstream product with similarly permissive licensing?
Re: Shotcut – A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#30Partially OT, but does anyone know any open source video editor or better library for merging multiple videos into a 360 degree video? (python would be awesome)
MoviePy might do what you need, particularly the CompositeVideoClip class. See https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/ref/VideoClip/VideoClip.html...