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Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by bewareofscams »

bonoboTP wrote: post #10
bewareofscams wrote: post #7

How does this compare to After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Davinci Resolve? I am pretty sure, this thing solves half of the problems the above solve, and it does it half-good.

It's FLOSS (GPLv3). There are very few free software video editors. Another good one is kdenlive, which a few years back I liked better that OpenShot.

This does not answer my question, I need something that can do thing, not how it is licensed. I have used Kdenlive, and it's nowhere near either of these functionality-wise, and struggles with big files.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by bewareofscams »

Matl wrote: post #9
bewareofscams wrote: post #7

How does this compare to After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Davinci Resolve? I am pretty sure, this thing solves half of the problems the above solve, and it does it half-good.

I am pretty sure you haven't tried it yourself. I am also pretty sure the software you mention is significantly more expensive or at least not open source. Which makes me pretty sure yours was a useless comment.

I have tried the ones I have mentioned, and I hadn't tried this one, - which is precisely why I am asking!

No need for snarky "but ours is foss smugface" comments.

Not to say, your comment make me pretty sure you hadn't tried either of mentioned by me, and does not take video editing seriously.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by bonoboTP »

bewareofscams wrote: post #11
bonoboTP wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's FLOSS (GPLv3). There are very few free software video editors. Another good one is kdenlive, which a few years back I liked better that OpenShot.

This does not answer my question, I need something that can do thing , not how it is licensed. I have used Kdenlive, and it's nowhere near either of these functionality-wise, and struggles with big files.

Unlikely to be near that polish and feature completeness. If you ask "then what's the point?", for now the answer is the license and the source availability.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by bewareofscams »

bonoboTP wrote: post #15
bewareofscams wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This does not answer my question, I need something that can do thing , not how it is licensed. I have used Kdenlive, and it's nowhere near either of these functionality-wise, and struggles with big files.

Unlikely to be near that polish and feature completeness. If you ask "then what's the point?", for now the answer is the license and the source availability.

I've asked "how it compares", not "what's the point" -__-

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by TheChaplain »

akrauss wrote: post #3

Adtech cookie banner on a .org domain for a thing whose name starts with „Open“? No thanks. Won‘t look further.

Your loss then. Although I prefer KDEnlive, OpenShot is not a bad video editor.

And I don't think it's a terrible thing for an open source developer to try to earn a few coins.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by LoganDark »

magicalhippo wrote: post #8
iLoveOncall wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh come on, they only have 210 "partners" they give your data to!

You jest, but with even trivial sites having 900+ so-called partners, "only" does indeed seem apt.

I feel like the only way to have this many "partners" as is to inherit them, at least if you're 'trivial'. Like, they probably chose some ad or tracking script that has so many partners.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by Matl »

bewareofscams wrote: post #13
Matl wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am pretty sure you haven't tried it yourself. I am also pretty sure the software you mention is significantly more expensive or at least not open source. Which makes me pretty sure yours was a useless comment.

I have tried the ones I have mentioned, and I hadn't tried this one, - which is precisely why I am asking! No need for snarky "but ours is foss smugface" comments. Not to say, your comment make me pretty sure you hadn't tried either of mentioned by me, and does not take video editing seriously.

I use and pay for DaVinci Resolve Studio on Linux myself, so yes I have tried them and yes, they're obviously more feature packed and polished than OpenShot is.

OpenShot is however significantly easier to use and does what you need for casual editing. If you want a step above that and still FLOSS then Kdenlive is a better choice.

What makes your original comment useless is that it reads like an American saying, 'I bet our GDP is bigger than Nauru's' - like what is the point? You know the answer already. An open source video editor is unlikely to be as good as DaVinci Resolve. DaVinci has multiplicity of the resources OpenShot/Kdenlive etc. do.

So again, what is your point?

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by [deleted] »

Matl wrote: post #9
bewareofscams wrote: post #7

How does this compare to After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Davinci Resolve? I am pretty sure, this thing solves half of the problems the above solve, and it does it half-good.

I am pretty sure you haven't tried it yourself. I am also pretty sure the software you mention is significantly more expensive or at least not open source. Which makes me pretty sure yours was a useless comment.

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