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Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by birksherty »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #63
hn_submit wrote: post #55

I've supported OpenShot financially in the past, but I'm currently leaning towards LosslessCut and Shortcut. Most people want a video editor to splice and concatenate video files without any loss or transcoding. I believe this behavior (lossless) should be default on all of these editors.

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.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by j1elo »

Youden wrote: post #62
j1elo wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note on the specific intervals: that's where the clever optimization comes in: leave as-is (passthrough) all not affected sections of the video (basically everything) and only recode the tiny fraction that needs recoding due to the cut being set on a non-keyframe. That one, I do believe should get more research and implementations. Currently I only know of LosslessCut's "Smart" mode, but I'd like to see other big pla…

I wonder, rather than re-encoding when starting on a B- or P- frame, could you preserve the entire GOP losslessly but make the earlier content "disappear" on playback by shifting PTS, or bundling several frames into a single frame's payload? Maybe it causes too many problems with players.

That's an idea that got some discussion but generally is strongly discouraged. Cutting must mean that the underlying bytes are absolutely not there in the final result, otherwise it will cause data leaks that users would very reasonably expect not to be there.

Imagine "smart cutting" a critically compromising part of a video (e.g. showing some personal info) only to later find out that the actual footage was still there, it just needed some timestamp shifting to unveil.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by dang »

Related. Others?

OpenShot 3.0 Released – Stability, Performance, and Usability - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943790 - Dec 2022 (3 comments)

OpenShot Video Editor – Free, Open and Award-Winning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31324136 - May 2022 (2 comments)

OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28324536 - Aug 2021 (16 comments)

OpenShot 2.5.0: Video Editing and Hardware Acceleration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336504 - Feb 2020 (4 comments)

OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19725823 - April 2019 (88 comments)

OpenShot 2.4.1 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15689998 - Nov 2017 (10 comments)

OpenShot 2.0.6 (Public Beta) Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071014 - Feb 2016 (27 comments)

OpenShot Video Editor Achieves $35k on Kickstarter, Final Goal in Reach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552289 - April 2013 (1 comment)

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

#104

Post by IAmBroom »

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.

"I have a long list of wants, and I require someone else who can't even see that list to tell me how this scores, because I can't be arsed."

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

#105

Post by VariousPrograms »

y42 wrote: post #42

I am quite familiar with Resolve..I am not a pro, and it's probably totally overload for my purpose, but I think it's easy to learn and even quite intuitive I tried many others, but mostly all others are not stable enough or have an even worse UI/UX... so I wonder... is this different?

I’m also not pro and just need an editor for Youtube or work. I think open source editors like Openshot and Kdenlive are generally underrated and easier to use than they used to be but even for just cutting together clips, adding text, and using keyframes it’s hard to beat how nice Resolve is.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by neuromute »

superkuh wrote: post #100
featwanz wrote: post #65

Is this effectively a leaner more basic, record, cut, colour version of Resolve?

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.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by haunter »

roblh wrote: post #68
Sophira wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For that kind of functionality, I would always recommend Avidemux[0]. It's quite a light package (which I like), and it allows you to do that and some other useful things too. [0] http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Dunno if it’s just me, but I tried to download it the other day and couldn’t. The windows download link just punts you right back to their own site.

Sourceforge works

or Github https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/releases/tag/2.8.1

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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Post by therouwboat »

TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #57
throwthrowuknow wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t help but laugh at this, it’s like a comedy skit with two people with different European accents accusing each other of being American.

Meanwhile, the brightest engineer they know left to work for a startup in San Francisco.

Oh no! He was detained by ICE and send off to Uganda.

Re: OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

#110

Post by tredre3 »

birksherty wrote: post #101
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

LosslessCut gives you the option to cut at the nearest keyframe, or to re-encode the small portion from the chosen timestamp to the next key frame (at most a few seconds). Sounds lossless enough to me.
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