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When I entered into the code I admired one of the most spaghetti software I have ever encountered. No tests, all is verification is made on opening it and "checking" if it was working. Several major bugs that nobody have an idea why, I ended up certain times commenting parts of the code to make it work.
I will take a look on Pitivi.
Says yet another Linux video editor
Olive ( https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/index.php ) also looks promising, it has gotten quite a bit of praise from Youtubers who use Kdenlive.
grumpy old man noises If developers can't be arsed to mention on front page what platforms their product supports then I don't think they really know what "intuitive" means. They might be cool guys and nice people and all but interacting with users is not their strength.
Of course with modern versions of Windows you can probably run this program through WSL relatively easily as well, but that is far from the default for running open source programs.
As this is GTK based, I suppose there's no technical reason why it can't be made to work cross platform if someone would put in the effort. It'd still be nice to see it mentioned, though.
See also Kdenlive ( https://kdenlive.org/en/ ). I generally stick with the GTK/GNOME ecosystem but for my (admittedly quite limited) video editing needs I've found Kdenlive to be easier to figure out.
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Not sure I used Piviti, but used Shortcut, Openshot and Kdenlive. Kdenlive wins hands-down in stability and least amount of UI glitches. (I recall that these interestingly share the same video editing backend, just the integration is different?)
> (I recall that these interestingly share the same video editing backend, just the integration is different?) Last time I looked, they were all using MLT [0] for the backend. [0] https://www.mltframework.org/
Obviously, finding it is a one time cost, but given the landing page praises the cleanliness of the code, I'd expect a link to it. Make the "clean codebase" link to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pitivi and that would be perfect!
You just cannot beat Cinelerra. Occasionally I try to use some heavily advertised one (like Kdenlive or Pitivi) but immediately realize you cannot "Generate Keyframes While Tweaking". This is essential. Cinelerra has been splitted to two^H^Hthree but only Cinelerra CG seem to work. Those who remember old-time Cinelerra can be amazed with the render-list of 20, which all seem to work. In the olden golden times you jus…
Maybe you mastered it better than me but I always found Cinelerra-CV a bit clunky, especially if I was dealing with oddball formats (HDV) that I didn't understand. Maybe I would get the hang of it now but I've kinda moved on.
For those looking to actually edit video professionally on Linux you can’t really beat the free version of Davinci Resolve. Over the past 5 years it has become an incredibly competent non-linear editor alongside being the industry standard for color grading. I’ve honestly tried everything under the sun on Linux for video editing and nothing beats it. If you’re looking to stay open source I think blender is starting t…
Also be aware that Resolve does not support integrated graphics (but only on Linux, bizarrely).