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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.
Both are horrible and will crash and you will never finish your project. Just use Resolve and get work done.
- Opening Movie Maker redirects to the Photos app, with a note that Microsoft Clipchamp has this functionality now and Movie Maker is deprecated.
- Install Clipchamp and see that its hilariously bad at batch-adding clips to the timeline. Adding 300 clips, one at a time, is a dealbreaker.
- Look up reviews for free 3rd party apps to do this on Windows. Find everyone recommending DaVinci Resolve. Fine. Install Resolve. Looks great. Import my clips, and get only audio. A quick Google search tells me that Resolve free version doesn't support importing 10-bit video. Welp.
- Let's try FOSS then. Shotcut is supposedly better than Openshot. Install Shotcut. Import all clips, add to timeline and export. Takes a few hours to export, displays a Success message and gives me the first few seconds of video, followed by a couple of hours of just audio.
- F** it, let's try Openshot. Hesitant because I've heard a lot of crashing happens, but what do I have to lose. Install. Import clips. Add to timeline. Let's me add transitions. Export takes a few hours. Gives me flawless output file.
Moral of the story: For occasional amateur video editing, Openshot is great.
How does it compare to Kdenlive?
Both are horrible and will crash and you will never finish your project. Just use Resolve and get work done.
Yes, Resolve is great. If you're not using it in Linux, at least.
IN Linux, however, I've found Kdenlive to be a bit rough, but completely reasonable for many medium editing tasks. Yes, it occasionally crashes, but not with any frequency where it makes it unusable. I haven't really lost much in the way of work when it does crash, either. Save early, save often. Etc.
I saw this post hours after I finished a task where this would have come in handy. I had a bunch of HQ video clips from a professional Sony video camera that I needed to string together, with short simple fade transitions. The last time I did this(few years ago), I was using a Mac, and iMovie did the job well. This time, I was on a Windows NUC, and figured Windows MovieMaker should do the trick. Nope. - Opening Movie…
I saw this post hours after I finished a task where this would have come in handy. I had a bunch of HQ video clips from a professional Sony video camera that I needed to string together, with short simple fade transitions. The last time I did this(few years ago), I was using a Mac, and iMovie did the job well. This time, I was on a Windows NUC, and figured Windows MovieMaker should do the trick. Nope. - Opening Movie…
For simple tasks like this I use Avidemux
I don't know, I'm asking.
Davinci Resolve works on Win, Mac and Linux . Switching to it from Adobe's Premier and Aftereffects was the best decision I've made. Oh, and it's free (not the Studio version).
I do believe that Resolve is not open source, correct? That's not an issue for me but it could be for others.
>Windows and OS X are not supported. Flowblade has focused on providing the best possible experience on Linux and other free platforms. Perhaps "Flowblade: Open-Source Video Editor for Linux" would be a more appropriate title.
I wonder if we should just accept it or if we really want every tool to list supported operating systems already in headlines? (and nowadays mobile probably counts too)