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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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Online video editor here, https://chillin.online , free export with no watermark, easy to use both on desktop and mobile.

Should be nice for small projects. But for anything serious with large RAW video footage, an online video will quickly fall short.

Yes, we found that other online video editors are not very usable, pay to remove watermarks, can't be used on mobile and export is very slow etc. So we make chillin,if you want to simply add effects, keyframes, animations, merge several clips, or crop a video, Chillin is a good choice.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Any good open source video editor for Windows? Top google results include https://www.openshot.org/ and https://shotcut.org/ , but both don't have obvious links to the code repositories and it took me a while to find them which is often not a good sign.

No, they are all years behind. Resolve is free, save your time and use what is used by pros around the globe.

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Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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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.

> - 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.

Blender is great as well if you happen to be a programmer, as everything is also callable as Python functions. The "built-in docs" in form of hovering over buttons and seeing what the equivalent Python code would be, makes it super easy to script together one-off scripts for doing things like "Add 300 video clips with a 100ms fade-in-out between all of them".

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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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…

I run Resolve (Studio) on Linux/Mac/Windows and, you are right, getting it to work on used to be a pain in anything but a set version of Centos. However, this project:

https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve

.. allows one to execute Resolve in a container (Docker AND Podman)... and now Linux is my go-to env for running Resolve. Just being able to run N+1 versions of Resolve on the same workstation is a lifesaver.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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>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.

Someone who cares about open source will probably not be using a proprietary system.

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>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.

Someone who cares about open source will probably not be using a proprietary system.

I care about open source as a developer.

As a user I want the most polished program available and am not against using closed source if it meets my needs as is and I don't need to modify it beyond it's supported options.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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>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.

Someone who cares about open source will probably not be using a proprietary system.

I find that view rather uncharitable. Sometimes real life simply necessitates the use of proprietary tech.
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