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Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by liotier »

l-p wrote: post #80
coderdd wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?)

> Kdenlive wins hands-down in stability It's the only one that does not have a 50% chance of segfaulting on every click. Not an exaggeration. Pretty much the only viable solution for FOSS video editing though I have yet to try Blender.

I have found Shotcut to be entirely stable over the last year on both Windows and Linux, whereas the last version of Kdenlive I just tested this morning experiences freezes on Windows. I'm quite happy with Shotcut.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by NoGravitas »

coderdd wrote: post #30
Georgelemental wrote: post #8

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.

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?)

Weirdly, in my use, Openshot was the stable one among those. Not discounting your experience, but wondering if it could be, e.g., distribution-specific.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by linsomniac »

kamranjon wrote: post #37

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…

Several years ago I spent several days trying to get Resolve working on Linux and had absolutely no luck. More recently I found a script that would repackage the Resolve installer as a Deb package and that seemed to work pretty slick.

https://www.danieltufvesson.com/makeresolvedeb

In my case, the machine I was trying to run it on just wasn't powerful enough.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by linsomniac »

emptysongglass wrote: post #69
kamranjon wrote: post #37

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…

Or you can use Lightworks used to edit Wolf of Wall Street among other Academy features. Also be aware that Resolve does not support integrated graphics (but only on Linux, bizarrely).

I really liked Lightworks several years ago when I was evaluating all the video editing packages, except for the pricing structure at the time. It was really easy to pick up, and worked great under Linux.

My memory was at the time the only pricing option was a subscription model, and I don't do videos very frequently. I knew I'd be annoyed at paying $20/mo for the many months when I wasn't using it. More recently I've seen that they have a "buy outright" option for around $300, which I would have lept at back when I was first looking at it. But I've since moved on to Resolve.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by linsomniac »

avinassh wrote: post #74
kamranjon wrote: post #37

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…

I have heard about Resolve for color grading, but how good it is when it comes to editing? Is it simple and intuitive enough to make few edits, add titles for YouTube videos?

I'll echo another comment that a few Youtube videos and off you go. It's pretty easy, I'm a video editing neophyte and thought it was easy to pick up.

The thing about Resolve is: You aren't going to outgrow it. It's easy enough for doing simple edits, but if you want to do fancy stuff with it, it can do it. You won't outgrow it.

That said, I spent a stupid amount of time with performance issues in Resolve. My cameras output H.264 or something, and I'd have to convert it to ProRes to edit, a process that took huge amounts of space and time. This was under Windows. Even with that, performance was still pretty bad. One kids concert video took me around 40 hours of editing to get an hour of final footage.

Prior to that video, my desktop machine did a better job with ProRes, but it got milk spilled on it during the home schooling of 2020.

However, and this isn't a solution that everyone can or should do: Resolve on the new Macbook Pro boxes is amazing and will handle anything I throw at it, without having to go through the hoops of converting to ProRes and the like.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by linsomniac »

andybak wrote: post #39

My problem is that I don't need this right now but I will want it at some point in the not too distant future. Finding it at that point is fairly tricky. I have too many bookmarks. Google results for"free video editor" are polluted with junk. And the name - "Pitivi" is not something I will ever remember. I still can't remember the name of the "online drawing app" that I use quite a lot!

Maybe this will help: It's pronounced "pee tee vee"? :-)

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by marcodiego »

kamranjon wrote: post #37

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…

If you're not a professional (beginner, hobbyist or amateur) kdenlive is probably good enough.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by skykooler »

kamranjon wrote: post #37

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…

Blender is great for compositing and visual effects, but really falls down on the audio side of video editing.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by marcodiego »

jeroenhd wrote: post #64
ihateolives wrote: post #22

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.

I kind of agree. It's very annoying to read about a program and find out on the download page that it's only available for Windows or for macOS and the open source community is starting to do the same with the assumption that just "open source" is enough to signal that it's Linux only. Of course with modern versions of Windows you can probably run this program through WSL relatively easily as well, but that is far fr…

At first I did this as a form of revenge: "If they just announce their software, I'll just announce the software I use regardless of the OS they use!"

Then I started thinking: "Well, their are probably not malicious or ignorant. This is just probably an acceptable behavior." And continued to behave that way.

I don't think we should complain when FLOSS non-multiplatform software (that support a FLOSS OS) should be criticized when announced without disclosing the lack of portability. People who choose to not use a FLOSS OS should be able to try it more easily and without the limits imposed by usual proprietary software licenses restrictions.

Now, if you announce something, even if it is FLOSS, that only works on windows or macos, the thing is entirely different. A FLOSS user will have difficulty trying it or will have to agree with the restrictions of proprietary software licenses. These are the software that, when announced, should state very clear which platforms it supports.

Re: Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

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Post by ageofwant »

kamranjon wrote: post #37

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…

That might be so, but I have been bitten with every single "Free" closed source tool I've ever used when it went away in some way or the other. Unless the free tool is totally unusable or the non-free one 5x more "good", I'd rather use the time to get good at a os tool that will just get better year after year.
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