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Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by eddiezane »

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…

Switched from macOS to Ubuntu around a year ago. Would happily pay for another license of Camtasia for Linux. Agreed that there's no experience like that I've found yet.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by ekianjo »

nacs wrote: post #97
moksha256 wrote: post #83

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!

I've found the (opensource) Shotcut to be good on Linux (its also available for Mac and Windows). [1]: https://shotcut.org/

I havent tried it recently but it used to be very unstable (crashing all the time). Kdenlive is the only editor on Linux which is stable enough to work with.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by pmoriarty »

ozzmotik wrote: post #115
fuball63 wrote: post #46

I'm a musician and Linux user, so I have to lean on open source for recording and production. I use Kdenlive to do basic video creation; background music to a picture. It works really well for my purposes, in fact, I've had much fewer problems with kdenlive than with Audacity or Inkscape. Inkscape locks up my entire machine (AMD card most likely to blame) and I can't get through a recording project without Audacity c…

i personally highly recommend using bitwig studio or renoise if you can get your hands on either. they run wonderfully well on Linux and are extremely powerful environments for music production. renoise is a tracker more so than a traditional daw and as such requires a bit of a shift in how you approach it but otherwise it's quite lovely and not super expensive. bitwig on the other hand is a more fully featured daw a…

Renoise is absolutely wonderful. I've bought it, use it all the time, and can heartily recommend it.

But it's not an Ardour replacement. Some of their features overlap, but you can't do things like record long clips of audio in Renoise, while that's a core feature in Ardour.

Also, the workflow for Renoise is just not something most people are used to or will want to spend the time adjusting to -- though I certainly encourage them to give it a chance, as it's great alternative to the mouse-oriented piano roll workflow in traditional DAWs.

So I think for most Linux users, Ardour is going to probably be the DAW that they're most used to and the one most appropriate for recording and manipulating audio for screencasts and videos, with Renoise unfortunately relegated just to music production by tracker fans.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by ekianjo »

phosphophyllite wrote: post #7
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...

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…

easily solved by using rolling distros instead. Use Solus, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch and you are set with the latest packages.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by canofbars »

meruru wrote: post #69
jcelerier wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Krita ? OpenColor.io ? Blender ? MyPaint ?

Krita is awesome and getting traction, but most people are still on Photoshop.

How does that have anything to do with viability? If you are an artist and there is an amazing tool with a fairly big user base but not as big as photoshop how does that stop you using krita in any way?

Its not viable if you ignore all the ways it is viable.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by linsomniac »

baldfat wrote: post #107
PhilippGille wrote: post #102

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> 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. Lightworks should run on Linux. It was used to edit Pulp Fiction, The Wolf of Wall Street and other blockbuster movies. I used it on Windows a while ago and my basic requirements were met, despite the free version having some limitations (like export resolution and formats). https://www.lw…

LOVE Lightworks But I have moved on to Davinci Resolve which is also on Linux. Lightworks workflow is the best but the learning curve is more like a cliff. Davinci Resolve seriously might be the biggest Video Editor on all three platforms int he next three years. Highly recommended.

Not sure I'd call it a cliff, I've never done video editing before and over the last two weeks I've create 3 videos using it and been pretty happy with it. I really want to try Davinci Resolve, but I'll need to try installing it again, had problems last time.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by f_r_d »

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…

Camstasia is a "Screen Recording & Video Editing Software" while Kdenlive is a video editor that has an feature to record your screen. Your shortcomings with it are the lack of screenrecording featuresit seems, not a fair comparison. Although it still has some ground to cover before it becomes a great nle it is getting there with every release.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by darkpuma »

darkpuma wrote: post #142
snazz wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven’t needed to do this (it’s an ffmpeg task IMO), but apparently it is possible: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/14999/how-to-cha...

To my knowledge it doesn't let you go in the other direction with motion interpolation though. Maybe there is a way to get blender to run a video through ffmpeg's minterpolate filter, but I haven't looked into that.

late edit: if any Blender developers are by chance reading this, my greatest gripe with Blender is that it doesn't use ffmpeg for encoding, making it infeasible to leverage ffmpeg's many desirable features and supported output codecs and formats (at least not without the inefficiency of going through a lossless format. ick!)

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by meruru »

canofbars wrote: post #165
meruru wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Krita is awesome and getting traction, but most people are still on Photoshop.

How does that have anything to do with viability? If you are an artist and there is an amazing tool with a fairly big user base but not as big as photoshop how does that stop you using krita in any way? Its not viable if you ignore all the ways it is viable.

The discussion is about visibility, not viability. The opening post says:

>open source is not that visible in the graphics/animation space

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by throwawaymanbot »

linsomniac wrote: post #137
anonova wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Davinci Resolve runs on Linux: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

I tried it recently, but it just segfaulted. System was running Ubuntu 18.04. Just FYI.

What isnt segfaulting on Ubuntu 18.04 these days?
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