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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 smolder »

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…

Agreed. The first time I used Openshot it was a buggy mess that ignored my output settings when rendering... Within a year or two of that, I gave it another shot, and the glaring issues were fixed. It just did what I needed with no problems.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by lbwtaylor »

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).

Another comment suggests the free version simply doesn't accept 10 bit input files. I use kdenlive for my limited editing and was thinking to try Davinci but that seems like a deal breaker as 10-bit is coming fast to consumer, prosumer devices.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by M911T »

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 use pitivi for very basic stuff.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by camjohnson26 »

diggan wrote: post #74
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.

> - 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 sc…

I recently went through a large video editing project on Ubuntu. Really wanted to use DaVinci resolve but it had multiple hard crashes and just wouldn’t open for some reason, doesn’t seem like they support Linux as well as Mac and windows.

I ended up using Blender, and while it’s powerful and super useful to be able to link scenes from other files, one huge missing feature is support for videos of varying frame rates. If your videos don’t match, the audio will be either much longer or much shorter than the video clips.

Had a few hard crashes too and lots of bugs, but definitely usable.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by qingcharles »

pjc50 wrote: post #58
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…

Also to consider: CapCut. Although I don't know if it handles 10 bit.

It seems to handle whatever junk I throw at it in whatever format it comes in. I guess because it is used to remix all kinds of junk video files that people find around the Net.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by CharlesW »

lbwtaylor wrote: post #82
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).

Another comment suggests the free version simply doesn't accept 10 bit input files. I use kdenlive for my limited editing and was thinking to try Davinci but that seems like a deal breaker as 10-bit is coming fast to consumer, prosumer devices.

> Another comment suggests the free version simply doesn't accept 10 bit input files.

It definitely does, at least for certain platforms and formats. https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_...: "For macOS and Windows, DaVinci Resolve will also read most formats natively supported by the operating system."

I'm not aware of a Resolve compatibility matrix that encompasses every possible platform, host OS, and format, but it doesn't take long to just try the free version. If the Sony source doesn't work directly, I'd recommend using ffmpeg to convert a test file to ProRes before giving up.

Worst case, the $300 one-time cost is one of the best deals in commercial/professional software.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by Intralexical »

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.

Oh gods. The Blender VSE is.... Technically professional-grade, but also isn't even multi-threaded. Switching to it from Kdenlive certainly felt like graduating, especially back when Kdenlive crashed every half hour or so, but honestly just use Kdenlive.

Middle-school-me's still waiting for Lightworks's free Linux release. Are Avidemux, Kino, Cinelerra, PiTiVi still around?

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by Tanoc »

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.

As a daily Blender user... Never recommend the Blender Video Sequence Editor. Ever. I do everything in-camera just so I don't have to deal with that thing. It is powerful, but it's powerful in the same way plate tectonics is.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

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Post by Intralexical »

MilStdJunkie wrote: post #67
CaptainFever wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Ehh. The VSE's always been the weakest part of Blender IMO. Not even multithreaded, and IIRC there's some ways it can't integrate with the compositor (requiring intermediate renders), plus time bugs during preview with some types of OGG and MP4 videos. …Still good, but a noticeably frustrating experience compared to a lot of other Blender features.

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

The compositor's always been great. What's changed? It looks pretty much the same as it always did even around the 2.4X days?

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