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Re: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by neves »

nkkollaw wrote: post #52

Shotcut (on Linux at least) just doesn't work. I've used pretty much all amateur video-making software for Windows and some for Mac, Screenflow, FinalCut Pro, etc. The best by far is FinalCut Pro (Mac-only), because it automatically creates proxy files and allows you to edit everything in real time with no lag, even when adding complicated effects. The situation on Linux is dismal. The only good one is https://kdenli…

The lack of a decent video editor was one of the 2 main reasons that I've come back to Windows after 20 years using Linux as my main machine.

Re: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by kamranjon »

nkkollaw wrote: post #52

Shotcut (on Linux at least) just doesn't work. I've used pretty much all amateur video-making software for Windows and some for Mac, Screenflow, FinalCut Pro, etc. The best by far is FinalCut Pro (Mac-only), because it automatically creates proxy files and allows you to edit everything in real time with no lag, even when adding complicated effects. The situation on Linux is dismal. The only good one is https://kdenli…

I share the same frustrations but I think honestly at this point Davinci Resolve 14 is the best video editor for Linux - nothing really competes. It is a bit of resource hog, but they have added a ton of capability in the last few years in regard to non-linear editing and I think if you seriously need to edit video on Linux that is where you should be looking. Also it's free. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Re: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by neves »

morsch wrote: post #58
nkkollaw wrote: post #52

Shotcut (on Linux at least) just doesn't work. I've used pretty much all amateur video-making software for Windows and some for Mac, Screenflow, FinalCut Pro, etc. The best by far is FinalCut Pro (Mac-only), because it automatically creates proxy files and allows you to edit everything in real time with no lag, even when adding complicated effects. The situation on Linux is dismal. The only good one is https://kdenli…

I recently used Lightworks on Linux. It worked fine. Quite a bit more powerful and hence complicated than the tools I used before. It's proprietary and the free as in beer version is limited to 720p mp4 ("YouTube") export, which was sufficient for my use case.

DaVinci Resolve free edition also looks nice: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

The tool started to work on color, but it looks like they've made a decent editor also.

Re: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by neves »

baldfat wrote: post #28
alok-g wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the video editing programs I have used (Sony, Corel, Cyberlink, Panasonic) crash often. On this HN, it looks the same for FOSS also. Is there some specific reason behind this?

I do some video editing contract work from time to time. I never know what I will have to use so I have pretty much used all of them. They are unstable because they require huge amount of resources, especially if your looking for 4k source material. You must have a very powerful machine. I don't have many crashes when working on high end custom built machines, but they do happen. From most stable to least stable for…

Missing from your list is HitFilm Express. I really like it. I've learned it in a VFX course and is really excellent for video editing. It is really fun to make some VFX effects in your family videos. Unfortunately, it is Mac and Windows only.

Re: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by alok-g »

baldfat wrote: post #28
alok-g wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the video editing programs I have used (Sony, Corel, Cyberlink, Panasonic) crash often. On this HN, it looks the same for FOSS also. Is there some specific reason behind this?

I do some video editing contract work from time to time. I never know what I will have to use so I have pretty much used all of them. They are unstable because they require huge amount of resources, especially if your looking for 4k source material. You must have a very powerful machine. I don't have many crashes when working on high end custom built machines, but they do happen. From most stable to least stable for…

This is very helpful. I'll look at the suggestions.

>> They are unstable because they require huge amount of resources ...

This actually is not enough of a reason in theory for the programs to crash. The programs should stop the processing when they run out of resources and allow a graceful exit.

The root cause for crashes then, I am guessing, must be lousy code. Either the entire video editing industry has gotten used to it, so that they are not demanding better solutions and thereby the product companies are not prioritizing fixing these crashes, OR, there are some common libraries that they all using which crash, and these product companies feel helpless. Hopefully someone knows the actual answer! :-)

Re: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by ben_bai »

arximboldi wrote: post #55
Anarch157a wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The few times I had to edit video with Kdenlive, it was very prone to crashing. That was about a year ago, so it might have changed.

Kdenlive crashes _a lot_. But recently I discovered that it crashes much less if GPU effects are disabled and the binaries from their webpage (not from Debian, etc.) are used. Still it can be frustrating to use just because of the crashing, otherwise a quite nice program...

Ever tried blender? Yes, it has an (Standalone) video editor build in. https://www.blender.org/features/video-editing/

Re: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by alok-g »

neves wrote: post #65
baldfat wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do some video editing contract work from time to time. I never know what I will have to use so I have pretty much used all of them. They are unstable because they require huge amount of resources, especially if your looking for 4k source material. You must have a very powerful machine. I don't have many crashes when working on high end custom built machines, but they do happen. From most stable to least stable for…

Missing from your list is HitFilm Express. I really like it. I've learned it in a VFX course and is really excellent for video editing. It is really fun to make some VFX effects in your family videos. Unfortunately, it is Mac and Windows only.

Does it not suffer from crashes problem? :-)

Re: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor

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Post by natch »

Joeboy wrote: post #8
blattimwind wrote: post #5

On the free, closs-platform video editor side of things (-open source) Da Vinci is worth a look or two as well. Kdenlive is another foss editor based on MLT, like Shotcut.

Consumer cameras generally record video to h.264, which DaVinci Resolve doesn't read on Linux. So that's a deal breaker for me. Which is a shame as it seems like an extremely capable app (if you're not a FOSS purist).

Or h.265 now...
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