Too hard to use after trying for awhile. By way of example adding text, then moving it & truncating it to only appear over part of the clip I could not intuitively understand. Perhaps its me.
Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
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Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#62I did a pair of videos a few years ago, neat product, had a bunch of crashes the first time (like every few hours while editing, but never while exporting), not so much the second. Encoding options were confusing, so as a total novice I just choose at random until I was happy with the results.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is so much value in doing this in a normal application with a UI that lets you see what you're doing. ffmpeg is a fantastic utility if you already know what you need, but it's absolutely terrible for jobs where you need to be able to see and do things between the two states of "having input" and "having final output".
I agree, although it has to be noted that that you can preview most ffmpeg commands using ffplay. The syntax is the same as the ffmpeg command, without the final output filename obviously.
Right, but now we're going "replace this single app with a normal graphical interface for working with visual media with multiple command line utilities including the terminal that you're always going to have to look up the commands flags for" and that's not really selling it =P
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#64Tried to use Shotcut years ago to edit a documentary and it crashed constantly. Neat idea, bad execution. Maybe it’s gotten better since then but it was unusable for serious work ca 2015.
2015 was 7 years ago.
Yeah, it was bad enough that I gave up on my quest to use Linux for media production and switched back to macOS. Never had the occasion to try it again.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#65I love Shotcut but I'm not a professional user. I've used it for personal small projects it is a great piece of software for that as far as I am concerned.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#66Here's a bit of feedback, in the event anyone who manages the site reads this comment section: 1) I checked the FAQ and the 2nd and 3rd question in the FAQ were about crashing on Windows. I get the impression that this software is extremely unstable across OSes. This is a really bad foot to start off on. Can anyone speak to the stability of Shotcut? I see a few comments below mentioning crashes, I just can't tell if…
When I last tried it, it frequently crashed and was very laggy on a high-spec machine with a good GPU and CPU. I also had trouble getting it to correctly do things like adjust playback speed of a clip. After an hour I gave up and used Davinci Resolve.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#67I sincerely hope Shotcut keeps making progress, since the last time I tried to find a good open source video editor of its type there wasn't one. Shotcut at least seemed to be the best of the available options, but it was laggy and crashed a lot despite being on a high spec PC and I had trouble getting it to correctly do basic stuff like adjust the playback rate of a clip.
It was really frustrating to end up settling on Davinci Resolve because that app sure is hard to use (apparently it originally only worked if you bought Blackmagic's custom control surfaces, so it sort of makes sense that its UI is terrible). Resolve is at least better than Vegas (which inexplicably costs money).
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#68Anyone use this? Opinions?
I tried it before the pandemic.
I got some crashes and random slowdowns; on par with other open source editors.
I found the UI unintuitive. For example: I tried to put one video next to another one (a presenter, with slides captured from the projector). I had to crop the presenter video but also adapt it to the height of the screen. The thing is that when I tried changing the crop horizontally the height of the video changed, as if the editor was trying to preserve the rectangle's proportions at all costs.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
2015 was 7 years ago.
Yeah, it was bad enough that I gave up on my quest to use Linux for media production and switched back to macOS. Never had the occasion to try it again.
This looks like a great project, but after just now trying it a few times for the first time, it's crashing for me on Linux (Mint).
I really want this to work - it's exactly what I need. Does anyone know of any similar projects that work well on Linux? Are there plans to improve Shotcut Linux operability?
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
2015 was 7 years ago.
Yeah, it was bad enough that I gave up on my quest to use Linux for media production and switched back to macOS. Never had the occasion to try it again.
Did you try davinci? My brother went back to Windows after struggling, but after he found davinci he moved back to Linux and has been super happy. I think he uses Fedora but he ran opensuse for awhile too, I think because setting up Jack was easiest. With pipe wire coming it might level the playing field