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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).
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…
Like Shotcut, it's all MLT underneath the hood. You can click "Generate script" on the render dialog, and get a .mlt file.
Another lead for you: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO
Shotcut has this one cool feature [1] - drop a bunch of pictures into it and it'll create an animated slide show automatically. I've looked for ways to automate that via something like ffmpeg, but haven't found any better options. [1] https://forum.shotcut.org/t/slideshow-generator/19162
Nice! I think iMovie does this, but I usually use https://www.photofilmstrip.org/en
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I used it for awhile, but there are a lot of short comings. It's very unintuitive and I would often spend more time trying to figure out how to do a thing than doing a thing. I switched to DaVinci Resolve (also free), and never looked back. I eventually spent the one time payment of around $300 for access to GPU accelerated encoding and a few additional filters and stuff.
Resolve is free as beer, but Shotcut is free as speech. Know the difference.
Here's a bit of feedback, in the event anyone who manages the site reads this comment section: 1) I checked the FAQ and the 2nd and 3rd question in the FAQ were about crashing on Windows. I get the impression that this software is extremely unstable across OSes. This is a really bad foot to start off on. Can anyone speak to the stability of Shotcut? I see a few comments below mentioning crashes, I just can't tell if…
So apparently in Shotcut you can make a transition between clips on the same track by just sliding them into each other. in Kdenlive you have to have them on different tracks and add transitions between them. Not something that makes or breaks the editor, just something that caught my eye watching the tutorial videos. It's great for really simple home video editing.
Anyone use this? Opinions?
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…
My experiences were on Linux btw (Ubuntu 20.04) using well supported hardware.
Tried to use Shotcut years ago to edit a documentary and it crashed constantly. Neat idea, bad execution. Maybe it’s gotten better since then but it was unusable for serious work ca 2015.
The Windows version is quite volatile the last time I tried it however.
Shotcut has this one cool feature [1] - drop a bunch of pictures into it and it'll create an animated slide show automatically. I've looked for ways to automate that via something like ffmpeg, but haven't found any better options. [1] https://forum.shotcut.org/t/slideshow-generator/19162
So basically this[0] with a crossfade[1] between frames? Which would be (by stitching examples together) ffmpeg -framerate 1/5 -pattern_type glob -i '\*.jpg' -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter_complex xfade=transition=fade:duration=2:offset=2 out.mp4 (1 jpg image per 5 seconds with a 2 seconds crossfade in between) [0] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow [1] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#xfade (only available in >4…
Honestly, I'd love a podcast called "Quinecast" where each episode consists of hosts talking in detail about the ffmpeg flags that were used to create the podcast.