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Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by erenon »

BerislavLopac wrote: post #188
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried. But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

A little out of topic, but which tool would you recommend for just the basic video editing on Linux? Nothing fancy, just cutting and pasting videos together, possibly with some simple transitions? Thanks!

ffmpeg - you can do declarative editing combined with a Makefile. Clips can be previewed with `mpv --osd-fracitons` or equivalent.

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Post by hikarudo »

traviscj wrote: post #151
trishmapow2 wrote: post #109

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Don't abuse cats, use `python3 -m json.tool < test.json` instead.

Bit of pointless contrarian opinion from a long time cat|'r: > Characters saved with " Hours lost with accidental ">"? unbounded. Preface: I'm confident on the shell & with my keyboard: I've been using shell redirects for a couple decades, learned touch-typing up to around 80WPM, and used to note-take math lectures live in latex. Yes, I have noclobber enabled. But... I can't promise myself I'm on a machine configured…

Wow, you described my workflow exactly. Using "<" might be shorter and faster-for-the-machine, but it's less readable and breaks the left-to-right order. I also frequently start with `cat x`, see what's in the file, move on to `cat x | some filter` etc.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by k3nsa1 »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96
gitgud wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. "Xournal" is amazing, small install footprint, simple interface and can do everything you need with pdf's. 5. You should try [1] "Kdenlive", it has it's quirks (as all linux tools do) but it's probably the best open-source Linux video editor out there. [1] https://kdenlive.org/en/

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried. But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

The basic version is also free on Windows & Mac.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by jdcskillet »

BerislavLopac wrote: post #188
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried. But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

A little out of topic, but which tool would you recommend for just the basic video editing on Linux? Nothing fancy, just cutting and pasting videos together, possibly with some simple transitions? Thanks!

My wife (a music teacher) was a Mac only video editing person. She now uses Open Shot almost exclusively, even though for $40 I bought her Sony Vega (she was complaining about Open Shot at the time). I think Open Shot is a good gateway to Blender or other video editing tools. She does all her stay at home videos on Open Shot now because she can do it so quickly. I would say it took about a week to get really comfortable making simple videos.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by smartbit »

guggle wrote: post #161
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried. But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

Wow, thank you for that, I didn't know Resolve. I do use KDEnlive but I can't say I'm satisfied with it.

Resolve has a quite steep learning curve, at least it had for me without experience with other NLE. For my simple workflow it was too much and I backed-off.

Happy to see the recommendations here for video editors on Linux, will give some of them a try.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by toastal »

halbritt wrote: post #89
rietta wrote: post #28

I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…

Kinda like this guy except I use google apps for documents and sheets, VSCode for an IDE and... I boot Win10 for Steam games, Fusion360 and AutoCAD.

There's so many games on Steam that run native on Steam or really well via Proton. I abandoned Windows a few years ago with video games being my last hold-out. If it doesn't work under Proton or isn't native, the game is a hard pass for me.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by srikz »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96
gitgud wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. "Xournal" is amazing, small install footprint, simple interface and can do everything you need with pdf's. 5. You should try [1] "Kdenlive", it has it's quirks (as all linux tools do) but it's probably the best open-source Linux video editor out there. [1] https://kdenlive.org/en/

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried. But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

Sorry for piggy-backing on this thread, but is there a simple tool which will let me do a screen capture and annotate it. Something like ScreenFlow on Mac. I use Peek for screen-capture currently.

I wanted to annotate some text and OpenShot doesn't really work well for that as I can't place the text freely and am limited to a few templates.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by FranOntanaya »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #96
gitgud wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. "Xournal" is amazing, small install footprint, simple interface and can do everything you need with pdf's. 5. You should try [1] "Kdenlive", it has it's quirks (as all linux tools do) but it's probably the best open-source Linux video editor out there. [1] https://kdenlive.org/en/

For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried. But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.

I had too many headaches with Resolve 16.2 hanging on exports or UI stopping responding on Ubuntu 18.04, I hope it gets better. The camera stabilization filter is amazing.

Kdenlive does support MP4 as source assets, Resolve free only does ProRes MOVs and such. It's just an extra step with ffmpeg but still.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by ketanmaheshwari »

qu83rt wrote: post #39
rietta wrote: post #28

I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…

I'd be using LaTeX for professional looking documents.

I meant to use LaTeX beamer to build these slides but couldn't figure an easy way to make the "Anatomy" figures eg. on slides 8,14,15 etc.
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