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Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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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.

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

Oh? So you opened the discussion with your hugely snarky, flamebaity comment, it backfired and now it doesn't feel so good? You're allowed to post such comments, but nobody else is?

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Resolve isn't special in what it's doing. This is a regular workflow that works like this in all software and isn't automated at all like you are claiming it is. It does not "prepare your audio". Bye

It literally prepares the audio for export, though. There is an export setting that allows you to choose the audio codec, channels, encoders, target true peak or LUFS level, and then normalize or "optimize" (built in limiting and compression) the audio to that level. For example, you can choose "Youtube" to optimize your audio automatically for Youtube. It also has a built-in dialogue leveler, for example. It has mor…

Oh so it hits the LUFS target automatically? This wasn't presented in the video I got sent. Great stuff then!

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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LosslessCut is great, but I've had issues with the final export like timing being off, having cut sequence etc. I think it is very particular about encoding/container. Shotcut is my default video editor, if anyone's trying it on Linux please use their AppImage as it solved most of my headaches when I was using Flatpak version.

If it's lossless, it may change the cut position to enable lossless. If you want cut at an exact place, then all apps need to re-encode which will never be lossless. For your particular requirement, you can't get lossless quality all the time by any software.

Are you talking about cutting on an I-frame? Can't an I-frame be converted into a P-frame and then inserted into the stream?

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Blackmagicdesign corporation's Davinci Resolve doesn't run on most OSes. So I can't tell you. But I can tell you that openshot allows me to edit videos quickly on linux. I like it.

When you say doesn't run on most OSes, which are you referring to? I'm just curious, as Davinci Resolve runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

No it doesn't. It runs on Windows and Mac. With a complex setup of wine or wine derived software you can create a windows compatibility layer and sort of run Davinici Resolve on linux. But just a random distro and random wine won't do it. There are containers like Davincibox Q too. But of course while this is "running" on Linux it is buggy, will have codec problems, and is still not really running on linux. Don't even try if you have an AMD GPU. And every time you reconnect to a new wifi AP it'll make you re-enter your license key, no sound on most linux distros that have ever existed, etc. It's not a good or even decent experience.
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