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Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by eropple » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 2:47 PM UTC

Erlich_Bachman wrote: post #62

codetrotter wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to record your desktop in Linux with a live webcam overlay I strongly recommend Open Broadcaster Software, aka OBS. https://obsproject.com/ OBS lets you combine multiple sources easily including adding static and dynamic graphical overlays and is basically the what all of the streamers are using on all of the three platforms Linux, macOS and Windows these days, and aside from being able to stream live to…

OBS is stable, packed with options, reliable, has intuitive UI, usually sets up hardware quickly and painlessly definitely try it.

OBS is technically very impressive and reliable, but I wouldn't call it "intuitive". I wrote an Android app for managing OBS mostly because of how much clunk there is to the UI.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by eropple » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

hellcow wrote: post #67

bitbang wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're working on recording projects on linux, why the heck are you using Audacity? Seriously, save yourself a lot of headaches with Ardour.

I've tried using Ardour, but I've never been able to get it to work with my USB Snowball mic. It starts with audio out, but once I configure my mic, it's input only and I have to restart the program to hear anything I've done. No other program I've used has ever behaved like this. I'm sure it has terrific features, but it'd be great if they could nail the simple out-of-the-box configuration.

If you're a musician, I'm pretty surprised you're using a USB mic. Particularly a Snowball--it's designed mostly for spoken-word.

Ardour works fine with an Audio Technica AT2100 USB (I tried it and can verify that it uses the standard USB host drivers without complaint) for both I/O and works out-of-the-box with most of my audio interfaces and an XLR mic.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by moksha256 » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:03 PM UTC

I'm a simpleton when it comes to video editing, but I was able to make a series of professional-looking videos without a whole lot of trouble in February.

I only run Linux, so I'm not sure what I would've done without Kdenlive since I don't see what else I could have possibly used.

Huge thanks to everyone who contributes to the project!

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by platz » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

codetrotter wrote: post #57

nickjj wrote: post #15

Unfortunately for screencast videos where you record your desktop and maybe overlay a webcam kdenlive is really really bad compared to alternatives available on Windows and Mac such as Camtasia / Screenflow. It's one of the reasons why I continue to stick with Windows. Kdenlive feels like it's 10 years behind Camtasia in terms of UI polish and being able to accomplish simple tasks like put a little tooltip overlay on…

If you want to record your desktop in Linux with a live webcam overlay I strongly recommend Open Broadcaster Software, aka OBS. https://obsproject.com/ OBS lets you combine multiple sources easily including adding static and dynamic graphical overlays and is basically the what all of the streamers are using on all of the three platforms Linux, macOS and Windows these days, and aside from being able to stream live to…

once you use compositing in OBS instead of the direct webcam passthrough, isn't there a noticeable delay?

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by mnbvkhgvmj » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:06 PM UTC

Brosper wrote: post #29

Why this project is not on for ex. GitHub?

Why would KDE host their git repos on Microsoft's propriety on-top-of-git service?

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by bitbang » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:06 PM UTC

hellcow wrote: post #67

bitbang wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're working on recording projects on linux, why the heck are you using Audacity? Seriously, save yourself a lot of headaches with Ardour.

I've tried using Ardour, but I've never been able to get it to work with my USB Snowball mic. It starts with audio out, but once I configure my mic, it's input only and I have to restart the program to hear anything I've done. No other program I've used has ever behaved like this. I'm sure it has terrific features, but it'd be great if they could nail the simple out-of-the-box configuration.

That's because the device is input only. By default Ardour uses the same device for capture and monitoring. The reason is that different audio devices have their own internal clocks, and using more than one devices introduces clock drift.

You get around this be setting JACK to use the snowball device for capture only (and by doing so you are using its clock) and then attach whatever device you are using for monitoring as a JACK client using zita_j2a from the zita-ajbridge tools package.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by zanny » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:09 PM UTC

mercure wrote: post #45

Brosper wrote: post #29

Why this project is not on for ex. GitHub?

There is currently a test for the adoption of a KDE instance of Gitlab CE (like Debian and Gnome) : and that should really help onboarding new contributors https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdenlive

Sadly they aren't planning to mitigate their issue tracking into gitlab which will severely hamper that on boarding. That being said a lot of KDE devs prefer seperate user facing issues to their development space because of how many bugs are submitted daily.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by eropple » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:12 PM UTC

nickjj wrote: post #68

codetrotter wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to record your desktop in Linux with a live webcam overlay I strongly recommend Open Broadcaster Software, aka OBS. https://obsproject.com/ OBS lets you combine multiple sources easily including adding static and dynamic graphical overlays and is basically the what all of the streamers are using on all of the three platforms Linux, macOS and Windows these days, and aside from being able to stream live to…

Yeah I use OBS. It's the best thing ever for streaming and definitely is one of the best solutions for recording in general. But Camtasia is both a recorder and editor and it seamlessly integrates the 2. The main pros of Camtasia is that it's super optimized for editing screencast style videos (tooltip overlays, text, zooms / pans, really REALLY nice animations on any objects by just dragging a few sliders, etc.). Th…

Best free (as in beer) thing for streaming, I'll give you. But I switched to vMix as my primary video mixing software and won't look back until OBS has significantly better audio management. vMix literally got $700 out of me because it integrated a good, ASIO-capable mixer into it.

A vMix Call equivalent that transparently wires into the audio board would also be really nice, but I don't wanna get greedy.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by arminiusreturns » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:12 PM UTC

So I maintain a list of good gpl software, and I would also like to remind people about shotcut. I see constant activity on its github. In the Foss world usually it one give you problems the other will do. (not trying to steal any limelight from kdenlive, which is also doing great, I just like to show people Foss options)

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by mtzaldo » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 3:13 PM UTC

noodlesUK wrote: post #2

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...

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