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Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by hjek »

Inityx wrote: post #19
hjek wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, Shotcut, Openshot, Flowblade, Olive and Pitivi have been crashing to often to be worth using. Openshot used to be less flaky when I used it a few years ago when it was in GTK but the Qt version has not been stable to me. Kdenlive is amazing though, especially the timegraphs for applying effects, and the clip proxying which makes it amazingly smooth for large projects on old laptops. I don't think any of the o…

I had a really bad experience last time I tried to use Kdenlive. Even on a pretty powerful system, having a project timeline longer than an hour made the entire interface run at ~5fps for me when adjusting cuts. After that, I started using DaVinci Resolve, which definitely still has problems, but runs like nothing else I've seen.

> Even on a pretty powerful system, having a project timeline longer than an hour made the entire interface run at ~5fps for me when adjusting cuts.

Did you use proxy clips? It's not on by default[0].

[0]: https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/...

Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by jhallenworld »

kristopolous wrote: post #2

Anyone use this? Opinions?

I've used it for youtube videos and some school projects for the kids. I'm happy that it's free. It did not have any crashes, but definitely I'm not a heavy user. I used it in Linux.

The user interface could be easier, for example deleting "ahs and ums" and silent time is a bit tedious. Also there are many output options, and it's confusing for a light user which to choose.

I've also used Lightworks, which is much nicer, but not free (except for 720p). Many of the non-free options want you on a subscription basis.

Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by byteflip »

Joeboy wrote: post #46
ziftface wrote: post #31

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Can you explain for someone who is not familiar with this line of work?

Davinci Resolve is non-free but good. Shotcut is free but non-good.

I’ve only used resolve a handful of times but it’s fantastic. Also pretty sure you get a lot of features in the free version of Resolve… it was more than capable for my needs.

Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by pmontra »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #5
kristopolous wrote: post #2

Anyone use this? Opinions?

I've only used it for splicing together bike cam videos and then cutting them to 2 minutes before and after the incident for submitting to police (that's quite common for police forces in the UK when dealing with close-pass etc footage). It was easy enough to figure out how to use it and I've got about zero knowledge of video editing. To be honest, I should really change to using ffmpeg instead as OpenShot can be a b…

I used to use OpenShot. I totally forgot how to use it after a few years hiatus and I could not find a way do what I remember I was doing, so I switched to plain ffmpeg. I use it to cut pieces of videos and extract the audio track. I use Audacity to denoise the audio, adjust the volume and silence some sequences. Then ffmpeg again to assemble everything into the final video. That never crashes and it's easier to document than working in a GUI.

Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by IshKebab »

kristopolous wrote: post #2

Anyone use this? Opinions?

I've tried every open source video editor. They're all pretty awful. Even something as simple as iMovie is frankly several leagues ahead of them.

The one I always come back to is Blender. It too has serious issues, but it is actually improving fairly rapidly. In the latest releases you can scrub through video without it crawling to a halt (wow I know right!) and it has a non-tedious way to add text, etc.

Basically its interface is ... well if you've used Blender you know what it's like. But it does at least not crash, and you are unlikely to run into "you can't do that" issues, even if doing some simple things like changing the speed of a clip involves several YouTube tutorials and a bunch of caveats.

So yeah, open source video editing still sucks.

Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by ghostly_s »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #38
ghostly_s wrote: post #24

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Wow, the police actually care about stuff like that over there? what a world.

It varies a lot between different areas as to how well they deal with it and they have inconsistent standards as to what consists of actionable evidence. I'm covered by Avon & Somerset which is one of the better ones.

Meanwhile here in the states the most significant police action in regard to cyclists rights I can identify is the time I took the lane in front of a police cruiser due to a car illegally parked n the bike lane, pointing at this infraction as I did so, and the pig riding shotgun rolled down his window to mock me as they cruised past.

Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by Jistern »

simbas wrote: post #30
hjek wrote: post #14

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For me, Shotcut, Openshot, Flowblade, Olive and Pitivi have been crashing to often to be worth using. Openshot used to be less flaky when I used it a few years ago when it was in GTK but the Qt version has not been stable to me. Kdenlive is amazing though, especially the timegraphs for applying effects, and the clip proxying which makes it amazingly smooth for large projects on old laptops. I don't think any of the o…

We use kdenlive at work with the same results. Sometimes crashes but Auto save saves the day

This! Simply presume kdenlive will frequently crash. I found it very disconcerting at first, but I learned to treat kdenlive's frequent crashing as a mildly annoying glitch (peccadillo).

Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by btown »

This is very cool! I've been looking for some time for a project that has:

- a stellar editing UI for "prototyping" a well-edited video

- a well-documented timeline-level API for the file format that can replace, timeshift, and add clips and tracks, and

- be able to run on cloud hardware as a render service

Imagine creating a promotional video, then automatically swapping in each client's logo and re-rendering it for each one! The possibilities here are endless.

DaVinci Resolve can't be beat for #1 and seems to support #3 well, but its API seems designed more for plugins than for automated authoring. For instance, the documentation at https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=9927... seems to give just read-only access to a lot of things at the TimelineClip level. And https://github.com/pedrolabonia/pydavinci has exactly one contributor.

By contrast, Shotcut seems to be built on, and by, https://mltframework.org/ with a close correspondence between the runtime API surface and the file system representation of a file, and it's fully open-source. Very possibly the sweet spot we've been looking for!

Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by prox »

simbas wrote: post #30
hjek wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, Shotcut, Openshot, Flowblade, Olive and Pitivi have been crashing to often to be worth using. Openshot used to be less flaky when I used it a few years ago when it was in GTK but the Qt version has not been stable to me. Kdenlive is amazing though, especially the timegraphs for applying effects, and the clip proxying which makes it amazingly smooth for large projects on old laptops. I don't think any of the o…

We use kdenlive at work with the same results. Sometimes crashes but Auto save saves the day

Never had Kdenlive crash on me. Win 11. Solid here.
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