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Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
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Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#92Why this project is not on for ex. GitHub?
You mean why they are using git as intended instead of introducing a single point of failure? ;-) Many in the free software movement shun commercial software. To make things worse, GitHub recently got aquired by one of free softwares old enemies. Personally I've used and even recommended GitHub before Gitlab became available and I don't shun them or even Microsoft, but I also see where they might be coming from.
> You mean why they are using git as intended instead of introducing a single point of failure?
If you could introduce a single point of failure merely by using git with a proprietary remote service, then you are using git wrong.
Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#93I'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!
www.pitivi.org is a very good video editor. All videos on my YouTube channel (Two-wheel Therapy) are edited using Pitivi.
It is simple, so am I.
I use Arch Linux as my OS.
Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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.
Fair enough but audio is a completely different animal that can be tamed in a number of ways:
1. You can buy a hardware USB audio interface + mixer for ~$200-400ish total which can do compression, basic EQs, noise gate, has multiple inputs, etc. and now that becomes your final source of audio so you don't need to process it with software. It's just a mic from your computer's point of view.
2. OBS has VST plugin support, so you can directly use hundreds of free VSTs to do various effects in real time without needing to mess around with audio redirection. No hardware needed except for your mic.
3. You can use REAPER (free but you should register it, sort of like Sublime Text) which is a DAW. From here you can use various VSTs and then use Jack (or comparable software) to redirect REAPER's output as input to another app (such as OBS). This takes a bit of initial set up but technically would work with any app, not just OBS and this is what I used to do before going with #1 because I didn't want to run all of these apps every time I wanted to start recording.
In the end, you can get fantastic sounding audio with any of the above approaches and with #1 and #3 you can do it with any application where as with #2 you're limited to OBS only (which isn't a bad thing if you spend your time streaming and primarily recording with it anyways).
Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#95One 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 tried to used Kdenlive to make some very simple videos (a couple of fade-in, fade-out, some overlays here and there). Even with the latest versions (and me being a very patient person) it suffered from stability problems: random crashes, file saving problems, file corruption, horrible preview mode. I don't know on Linux, but for Windows I also had to search around and manually install some codecs because otherwise…
Amusingly, I had exactly the opposite experience on Windows - OpenShot crashed constantly, and Kdenlive was completely solid. I wonder whether we had different system setups, or were just using different builds?
Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#96Unfortunately 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…
camtasia is not free software nor open source. so its hard to compare the two, though input from someone actively using it is always better than the comments of people judging screenshots. so thanks for that :)
Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#97I'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!
I've found the (opensource) Shotcut to be good on Linux (its also available for Mac and Windows).
[1]: https://shotcut.org/
Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#98I'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!
www.pitivi.org is a very good video editor. All videos on my YouTube channel (Two-wheel Therapy) are edited using Pitivi. It is simple, so am I. I use Arch Linux as my OS.
I used the version of Pitivi available in Ubuntu 18.04 yesterday and for the life of me I could not get it to render anything but potato quality video (500 MB file for 60 minutes at 1080p).
The deb from Ubuntu 18.10 had unmet dependencies, which is not a surprise given how interwoven it is with gstreamer.
Finally, I installed the most recent version via flatpak and it rendered fine.
Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 monitorin…
That makes a lot of sense. Speaking for the "hobbyists" out there, it'd be great to have that as an option in Ardour itself and not have to fiddle with setting up client/server/bridges just to plug in a microphone (which seems like a really common use-case!). FWIW I don't even need live monitoring where latency matters -- I just want to record, then stop recording, then play it back and edit it.
I do know that programs like Adobe Audition on Windows offer that in a plug-and-play way.
Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor
#100I'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!
www.pitivi.org is a very good video editor. All videos on my YouTube channel (Two-wheel Therapy) are edited using Pitivi. It is simple, so am I. I use Arch Linux as my OS.
Your comment reminded me of the "First rule of Arch Linux."