I've been looking for an easy-to-use video editor for some time.
I've used all the big ones, hit film and davinci resolve, but they're a bit too complicated for my tastes. Thanks for sharing. Excited to use this!
Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
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Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#82Tried 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.
I've used it for editing 4k on linux somewhat recently (1 year +) and it was ok, the fact that it wouldn't GPU render was a real bummer but maybe that's fixed by now. Exporting a couple minutes of video could take an hour on an i7.
As an amateur I loved their interface because it was really easy to figure out.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#83Tried 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.
If you are using this I recommend you to watch Tips on How to Speed Up Cinematic Editing & Reduce Lag with Proxy Editing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHutxve2T0&t=3s.
Also from my experience M1 Mac build was lot faster than it running on Windows 11 with AMD Ryzen 9 3900. (This is with proxy files for both).
It did not crash for me on both OSes.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#84I've created over 150 videos for a YouTube channel using Shotcut on Windows since October 2020. The GUI is not intuitive and it took quite awhile to learn many of the basics, but I've become fairly productive and crashes are extremely rare. If it warns about low memory, I reboot, and if I'm doing a large or complicated video I assemble it from smaller parts/projects. I'm using version 21.06.29 and never upgraded beyond that because it already offers me more than enough and I'm leery that a new version might break something I've become dependent on. It has a vast number of capabilities I've never even explored. If I can't figure out a feature I can inevitably find an online tutorial video that explains it sufficiently, though the tutorials tend to be of poor quality.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#85This 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…
Every video editor based on the MLT framework that I have tried has been very unstable : (
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#86I use it for small video processing. It is better than openshot in my experience in terms of stability. The interface is reasonably good, with the exception of cropping, where you have to turn to ffmpeg (to be fair, all visual video editors do cropping badly).
Avidemux does it well. I find myself returning often when every other editor frustrates me.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#87Tried 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.
Yes, that was my experience too, maybe three years ago.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Resolve is free as beer, but Shotcut is free as speech. Know the difference.
Yes I'm aware :). Notice I didn't say, "DaVinci (also free OSS)". I wasn't trying to mislead anyone, but I feel like OSS can sometimes be overhyped just because it's Open Source. Not all closed source software is bad (pretty much every major game is closed source), and not all OSS is good.
However I try to avoid non-free (speech) software at all costs. I'll be happily using an inferior OSS product instead of a free (beer) one, as long as it gets the job done.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#89This 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…
Bannerbear can do something like what you want, programmatically [0].
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's free. It actually has quite a lot of functions, and effects, but the UI/UX is so so in my opinion. Video rendering and export is fast enough which is a good thing, even when using effects. The real test with most of these authoring tools is text support and how comprehensive it is, or not, as titling is an important aspect of video editing.
> The real test with most of these authoring tools is text support So how's the text support?
I would say it is rather simplistic compared to other video editing tools.