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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 eth0up »

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…

Not great for vertical cellphone video (1080x1920). The video will import horizontally and any efforts to set it vertically will either fail, or the exported (vertical 1080x1920) version is horrid.

For simple horizontal edits, it can be quite convenient. But they really need to fix a bug or two, especially considering the amount of footage by phones out there.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by JeremyNT »

geppetto wrote: post #35

I've tried many of them and I keep turning to kdenlive, both on linux (my main driver) and windows. I've been using it for years, although occasionally. From my perspective it's the best FOSS NLE out there both in terms of features and stability. For the occasional user it gets the job done. Kdenlive used to crash a lot years ago but I'm not having any issue at all in the last couple of years (while Clipchamp, promot…

Kdenlive has been my choice too, despite the fact that I am a GNOME user and find the UI a little strange. I've really tried to like Openshot but it isn't really up to the job.

People sometimes suggest Blender, which is of course high quality software, but most people reaching for a video editor benefit from a tool with fewer options that is more aimed at basic use cases.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by darkflame91 »

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 completely missed looking up Kdenlive because I (rather stupidly, in hindsight) assumed KDE implied for Linux only. I'll keep it in mind for the next time.

And yes, Blender would have been overkill, but I might've gone that route if Openshot didn't work out.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by darkflame91 »

xela79 wrote: post #60
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…

I would say for amateur video editing, that DaVinci Resolve free edition is ideal candidate, you can go quite in-depth, or just drag & drop and add some transitions; previously I used imovie on mac too (even build a hackintosh first and bought imovie license $12) but it does not add that small extra that was needed. once I started working with DaVinci.. game changer, from start to finish, with some advanced motion tr…

I did mention in my original comment that the free version of Resolve refused to import my 10-bit video clips. I was fine with exporting 8-bit.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by sho_hn »

darkflame91 wrote: post #63
creesch wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 completely missed looking up Kdenlive because I (rather stupidly, in hindsight) assumed KDE implied for Linux only. I'll keep it in mind for the next time. And yes, Blender would have been overkill, but I might've gone that route if Openshot didn't work out.

KDE actually has a lot of software on Windows (and is about to even put them on the MS/Windows store, if it hasn't already), in particular when it comes to content creation and document stuff - Krita, Okular, Kate, to name a few. And Kdenlive, of course.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by MilStdJunkie »

CaptainFever wrote: post #56
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…

Blender is a great video editor as well.

I was looking for this comment. Hard agree. Every time I need some casual compositing tasks, or some transitions, Blender's never done me dirty. Every time I pull my head out of the ground and go hunting for another FOSS compositor, I always end up shrugging, "whelp, nothing really all that better than Blender, and I know Blender, soooooo . . "

EDIT also, since last I used it, the Blender Compositor has gotten a lot better. Dang.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by sergiomattei »

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…

Clipchamp is terrible software. I can’t believe it made to production.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by CyberDildonics »

FlashBlaze wrote: post #3

Super cool! Kind of in the similar vein: https://natrongithub.github.io/

Natron was meant to clone a compositing program called Nuke, but it crashed every few seconds. It can't even open and stay open without crashing immediately even if doing nothing. I don't know why anyone would go to all that work and release it in that state, but that was my experience.
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