Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

Post by dotancohen » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 1:03 PM UTC

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I've used Kdenlive pretty extensively (as a hobbyist). It has an impressive collections of features. Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability. I've had it eat my project (and even corrupt save files). Back up frequently if you use it. The last time I used it, it was pretty stable, so possibly they are improving in that area. My biggest complaint is that the workflow is tedious . There are absolut…

> Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability. Second that. Had great and worse times with Kdenlive. My general feeling: KDE software tends to be more unstable (i.e. crash or freeze more frequently) then GNOME software. But they have in general more features. Just compare the KDE office suite, Calligra, against OpenOffice (which is however not related to GNOME). It is amazing at what speed KDE softw…

Post by bibyte » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 1:14 PM UTC

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A really interesting thing is that unlike on other tasks (programming?) open source is not that visible in the graphics/animation space.

Blender is widely used for 3D I believe.

Post by bibyte » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 1:17 PM UTC

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> Freedom of updating and installing newer versions of software without waiting for maintainer Then use Arch, or some other rolling release distro. > Hope snaps/flatpack/appimage solve this problem in future These are terrible solutions, not least due to the theming issue. Rolling release is the real solution.

MacOS model is real solution. Like really. Windows + chocolatey or macos + brew (cask) is better than any repository with dependencies on linux. Also, do not want Arch or any - I just want LINUX (or Desktop Linux). One predictable system, instead of many kinds/variants of basically the same programs - one system to hate, one system to deal with. (Arch wiki is good though)

Post by g105b » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 1:18 PM UTC

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One of the things the Linux desktop sorely needs is a good video editor. I’ve heard of kdenlive before but never tried it. How is it (both for experienced users doing complex editing and for newbies just wanting to trim some footage)? I’ve also seen that black magic’s editor is available for Linux, but it is an enormous package...

I've used Kdenlive pretty extensively (as a hobbyist). It has an impressive collections of features. Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability. I've had it eat my project (and even corrupt save files). Back up frequently if you use it. The last time I used it, it was pretty stable, so possibly they are improving in that area. My biggest complaint is that the workflow is tedious . There are absolut…

Post by phosphophyllite » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 1:19 PM UTC

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Linux desktop needs consistency and freedom (yes, open source desktop needs freedom). Freedom of updating and installing newer versions of software without waiting for maintainer/distro half of year to build new package (outdated next week because it's STABLE package). This is main problem of any linux desktop initiative - linux users get newer gimp after windows users. Hope snaps/flatpack/appimage solve this problem…

I personally solved this by switching to antergos (which is based on arch, but fully usable out of the box). Been running the same installation without any problems for about 5 years now, completely updated irregularly. Using "stable" distros makes little sense for other than complete newbies and enterprise-like critical usage and such imo. If you don't need bleeding edge stuff they are a good choice though, but for…