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Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by ekianjo »

monetus wrote: post #25
bingerman wrote: post #16

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I personally solved this by switching to antergos (which is based on arch, but fully usable out of the box). Been running the same installation without any problems for about 5 years now, completely updated irregularly. Using "stable" distros makes little sense for other than complete newbies and enterprise-like critical usage and such imo. If you don't need bleeding edge stuff they are a good choice though, but for…

I've been eyeing antergos. Any hardware problems along the way?

nope but install of antergos is always borked in some way. Its actually faster to install arch linux from the command line and fairly easy anyway.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by ekianjo »

vytviytffdpoi wrote: post #37
monetus wrote: post #25

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I've been eyeing antergos. Any hardware problems along the way?

Hardware support is pretty solid, since the kernel, like all packages, is fairly up to date. There's also an option to install proprietary GPU drivers out of the box. And when reinstalling an old ThinkPad, it was also the only distro among the few I had handy that actually came with the correct Intel wifi firmware so I could, you know, install. Two thumbs up for Antergos.

Antergos is not a standalone distro though. Its just an installer for Arch.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by noir_lord »

ekianjo wrote: post #162
nacs wrote: post #97

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I've found the (opensource) Shotcut to be good on Linux (its also available for Mac and Windows). [1]: https://shotcut.org/

I havent tried it recently but it used to be very unstable (crashing all the time). Kdenlive is the only editor on Linux which is stable enough to work with.

Whats amazing is that a few years ago the biggest complaint about Kdenlive was that it was that it was terribly unstable.

They've done a fantastic job of fixing that.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by aleb »

linsomniac wrote: post #141

Within the last month I got an action cam and have started to edit videos to post on Youtube. Mostly "HOWTO" videos, because I've learned so much by watching HOWTO videos. I'm just finishing up a major remodel of my kitchen, with youtube videos being a large contributing factor to my success. Kdenlive I haven't tried yet, but is on my short list to try. I've been using LightWorks under Linux and it works pretty well.…

What gave you the impression Pitivi is abandoned?

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by IshKebab »

snazz wrote: post #136
IshKebab wrote: post #128

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It doesn't even let you do frame rate conversion though.

I haven’t needed to do this (it’s an ffmpeg task IMO), but apparently it is possible: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/14999/how-to-cha...

Ah yes there's that weird design where there's a "movie clip editor" that is a totally different tool from the sequence editor. Why can't I import a clip into the sequence and then edit it? Very confusing.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by nickjj »

eddiezane wrote: post #161
nickjj wrote: post #15

Unfortunately for screencast videos where you record your desktop and maybe overlay a webcam kdenlive is really really bad compared to alternatives available on Windows and Mac such as Camtasia / Screenflow. It's one of the reasons why I continue to stick with Windows. Kdenlive feels like it's 10 years behind Camtasia in terms of UI polish and being able to accomplish simple tasks like put a little tooltip overlay on…

Switched from macOS to Ubuntu around a year ago. Would happily pay for another license of Camtasia for Linux. Agreed that there's no experience like that I've found yet.

I went as far as posting about it on the Camtasia forums. Basically a "hey, there's people who want to run Linux but aren't because they really like Camtasia" type of post.

Not a single person replied positively even though the post wasn't hostile in the slightest.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by baldfat »

osrec wrote: post #123
baldfat wrote: post #107

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LOVE Lightworks But I have moved on to Davinci Resolve which is also on Linux. Lightworks workflow is the best but the learning curve is more like a cliff. Davinci Resolve seriously might be the biggest Video Editor on all three platforms int he next three years. Highly recommended.

Davinci Resolve is good, however rather unstable on Linux in my experience. I've tried it on a couple of distros and kept getting random crashes every so often.

I'm on OpenSUSE Leap and it has been rock solid. I had it on a rolling release on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and it was a problem with all the updates.

When I use Linux for Audio and Video I DON'T update the computer and I don't have anything else really on that image. I use a second image for non-Audio/Video production. I did the same thing with Windows for decades.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by p2805 »

noir_lord wrote: post #173
ekianjo wrote: post #162

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I havent tried it recently but it used to be very unstable (crashing all the time). Kdenlive is the only editor on Linux which is stable enough to work with.

Whats amazing is that a few years ago the biggest complaint about Kdenlive was that it was that it was terribly unstable. They've done a fantastic job of fixing that.

Both Shotcut and Kdenlive use the MLT framework under the hood. I used both for a few weeks now and they seem equally stable for small projects.

Re: Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

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Post by osrec »

baldfat wrote: post #178
osrec wrote: post #123

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Davinci Resolve is good, however rather unstable on Linux in my experience. I've tried it on a couple of distros and kept getting random crashes every so often.

I'm on OpenSUSE Leap and it has been rock solid. I had it on a rolling release on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and it was a problem with all the updates. When I use Linux for Audio and Video I DON'T update the computer and I don't have anything else really on that image. I use a second image for non-Audio/Video production. I did the same thing with Windows for decades.

Did you have to use http://www.danieltufvesson.com/makeresolvedeb ? I found the entire installation process on Ubuntu a bit of a pain (even though it did work) - I think the instability on my system is probably as a result of the rather convoluted installation steps.
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