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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 petecooper »

master-lincoln wrote: post #40
petecooper wrote: post #29

>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 also see this happening often with Mac only tools here. 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)

As a desktop Mac user, I see exactly what you're saying.

For clarity, my comment was more along the lines of 'saved you a click' than expectations/aspirations for every tool to cover every popular-ish environment.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by creesch »

darkflame91 wrote: post #32

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…

Great that you got it to work. Just to make the list with potential tools a bit more complete:

- Kdenlive is also a fairly capable video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/

- From what I have heard the Blender video editor for many people is a go to tool as well. In this case it likely would have been overkill, but figured it is worth mentioning.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by wakeupcall »

BodyCulture wrote: post #21
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.

Both are horrible and will crash and you will never finish your project. Just use Resolve and get work done.

I rarely edit videos, so my needs are very basic.

I tested a few such as openshot, flowblade, ... about 10 months ago.

flowblade has the best UI IMHO (more streamlined), but it was annoyingly restrictive for quick edits such as opening a clip, apply just a trim and maybe add 1 filter (usually crop).

It also wasn't very stable.

I ended up with shotcut for most of my needs. It's very flexible and has a good balance in ui/features: intuitive enough that I had to spend zero time learning it, yet has more than what I will ever need. Although it's not as smooth performance-wise as flowblade. It never crashed on me yet.

I didn't like the UI of openshot, but this is a subjective thing. Felt space-wasting and oversimplified, which might be a plus to some. It also did crash a lot for me.

I use avidemux a lot for cuts. It's the fastest editor for this by FAR. UI is minimal. I would say underrated, although it's a pretty well-known tool, just in a different class (not a NLE).

I was a big fan of "cinelerra" some years ago. It's blazingly fast, but very restrictive in the formats it accepts, which is why I stopped using it. I mostly cut random videos coming from random cameras/phones/etc, so I value free-form over standardized workflows.

Don't forget Blender. For some more complex stuff, I successfully used blender's NLE to track/mask clips. Worked perfectly, absolutely stable even for complex videos, although it needed slight more RTFM than the other options and noticeably heaver in terms of system requirements.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by petecooper »

papa0101 wrote: post #38

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).

>Davinci Resolve works on Win, Mac and Linux.

Black Magic also provide a custom Rocky Linux ISO with each release. It's not widely-advertised and I found it at the end of their release notes PDF.

>For users setting up new systems or looking to use a standardized DaVinci Resolve environment, a standard Rocky Linux 8.6 ISO is available to download at:

>https://downloads.blackmagicdesign.com/DaVinciResolve/DaVinc...

>(MD5: https://downloads.blackmagicdesign.com/DaVinciResolve/DaVinc...).

>The ISO file can be burned to a bootable USB flash drive or a DVD for the installation process. Before installation, ensure that you have backups of your files, including media and Resolve project libraries. Turn off UEFI Secure Boot in BIOS configuration and boot from the ISO.

>Selecting the Automatic option will erase all the files on your connected drives during installation. Please ensure that you only connect a single boot drive to install the OS onto. Alternatively, select Manual configuration and customize the target drive and partitions when installing the OS.

>The installer takes care of all dependencies - including standard libraries, Nvidia drivers and DeckLink drivers. When the installation is complete, you can reboot the system once, and download and install DaVinci Resolve using the instructions above. When upgrading DaVinci Resolve, please check this section in the new installer for any special instructions you may need for the new version.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by linsomniac »

BodyCulture wrote: post #21
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.

Both are horrible and will crash and you will never finish your project. Just use Resolve and get work done.

I love Resolve, but I've rarely been so miserable as when I tried to get it working under Linux. I'm a real seasoned Linux Sys Admin, but I spent 10-ish hours trying to get it installed 3-4 years ago and just totally failed.

I ended up using Windows and had a just barely usable system. I had a lot of problems with poor scrubbing performance and renders that sometimes had black frames randomly in them that I fixed by converting everything to prores (and blowing up into huge files).

My long term fix was to get a mac, where it runs flawlessly with basically no effort. It's a great tool, but there are some pitfalls.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by linsomniac »

dotancohen wrote: post #39
papa0101 wrote: post #38

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).

Please share with us the details. What is great about it? I do believe that Resolve is not open source, correct? That's not an issue for me but it could be for others.

What I like about it is that it is an industrial grade tool and pretty reliable, and allows 4K output for free, and the full version is fairly reasonably priced. You will not be limited by the tool, it can basically do anything you'd want to do in this space. There is also plentiful help on the net showing you how to do it. The simple stuff is really no harder than in any of the other tools I tried, and the hard stuff is possible.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by haunter »

vetinari wrote: post #37
haunter wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For simple tasks like this I use Avidemux

Avidemux supports XAVC? (That's what I assume was the product of the mentioned Sony camera). I don't know, I'm asking.

It doesn’t, just tried with a sample file

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by jimmiles »

darkflame91 wrote: post #32

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…

Video editor here. Try Shutter Encoder. https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by dotancohen »

linsomniac wrote: post #46
dotancohen wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please share with us the details. What is great about it? I do believe that Resolve is not open source, correct? That's not an issue for me but it could be for others.

What I like about it is that it is an industrial grade tool and pretty reliable, and allows 4K output for free, and the full version is fairly reasonably priced. You will not be limited by the tool, it can basically do anything you'd want to do in this space. There is also plentiful help on the net showing you how to do it. The simple stuff is really no harder than in any of the other tools I tried, and the hard stuf…

Yes, an upgrade path to a quality commerical tool is certainly an advantage.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by yesimahuman »

creesch wrote: post #42
darkflame91 wrote: post #32

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…

Great that you got it to work. Just to make the list with potential tools a bit more complete: - Kdenlive is also a fairly capable video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/ - From what I have heard the Blender video editor for many people is a go to tool as well. In this case it likely would have been overkill, but figured it is worth mentioning.

I used kdenlive recently and it worked very well! Clipchamp charges for 4K export which seriously annoys me given we all know that’s just arbitrary, but kdenlive handled it just fine and was actually faster to use anyways
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