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Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by dugite-code »

Loranubi wrote: post #6

Any good open source video editor for Windows? Top google results include https://www.openshot.org/ and https://shotcut.org/ , but both don't have obvious links to the code repositories and it took me a while to find them which is often not a good sign.

kdenlive is cross platform, provides a windows build and is a very competent video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by Rodeoclash »

Loranubi wrote: post #6

Any good open source video editor for Windows? Top google results include https://www.openshot.org/ and https://shotcut.org/ , but both don't have obvious links to the code repositories and it took me a while to find them which is often not a good sign.

I just used openshot for a project. It wasn't terrible, ran into one bug where I think it saved over my project without me hitting save but can't be sure. Clunky UI meant I accidentally overwrote some of what I was doing but it didn't take long to fix.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by oneZergArmy »

dugite-code wrote: post #11
Loranubi wrote: post #6

Any good open source video editor for Windows? Top google results include https://www.openshot.org/ and https://shotcut.org/ , but both don't have obvious links to the code repositories and it took me a while to find them which is often not a good sign.

kdenlive is cross platform, provides a windows build and is a very competent video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/

It's the best one that I've found for Windows, despite the somewhat infrequent crashes.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by thrdbndndn »

Incipient wrote: post #9
Loranubi wrote: post #6

Any good open source video editor for Windows? Top google results include https://www.openshot.org/ and https://shotcut.org/ , but both don't have obvious links to the code repositories and it took me a while to find them which is often not a good sign.

The github link for shotcut is just on the downloads page. I don't find that particularly egregious?

So is OpenShot. It's a weird thing to complain about.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by Daub »

K33P4D wrote: post #7

How does this compare to shotcut, because most video editors are just unintuitive unless you know the layout of timeframes and the separate frame windows. Why cant we have a single film strip where we can trim and splice videos with ease.

Not sure about Shotcut, but from my experience the layout of Flowblade seems pretty standard. Anyone who has used premier or DaVinci should be up and running in no time. The NLE interface is pretty much a done deal at this point. Major changes in interface philosophy would be of doubtfully utility.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by n3storm »

Loranubi wrote: post #6

Any good open source video editor for Windows? Top google results include https://www.openshot.org/ and https://shotcut.org/ , but both don't have obvious links to the code repositories and it took me a while to find them which is often not a good sign.

Is not a sign of dark patterns if that is what you think.

There is a popular prejudgement (IMHO fact based) that artists are picky so FLOSS tools for artists often try to communicate secondarily that is FLOSS and where is being developed.

For "picky" I mean statements like "is not photoshop", "is not premiere" and if you go to Adobe sites there are no links to code repositories. This projects try to sell themselves similarilly. (hope I made myself clear)

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