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Re: State of Kdenlive

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Comparing usability/stability of premiere against anything is kind of putting your finger on the scale lol

Right, but it is the SOTA and the sort of poster boy of everything kdenlive competes with.

Is it? I'd say in the higher end that would be Media Composer.

Re: State of Kdenlive

#82

Kdenlive hits the perfect sweet spot for me. It's much more capable than basic editors like iMovie, but doesn't have the overwhelming learning curve (or steep hardware requirements) of DaVinci Resolve. Like others have mentioned, pairing it with OBS for screen recording and Audacity for audio makes for an incredibly powerful, 100% FOSS media creation stack. It's amazing to see how far open-source video editing has co…

Be careful with any serious project, this software most certainly will crash and destroy your work. It crashes since many years and developers do not seem to care or are not able to understand how important stability for media creation software really is. Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an ad…

Everything you're saying is right, but people hate hearing that an open source project is poorly made in a thread about it. Most of the people who get upset by what you're saying have probably never used it. It is very unstable and should not be relied on.

Meanwhile resolve is fantastic and it's free.

Re: State of Kdenlive

#83
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Be careful with any serious project, this software most certainly will crash and destroy your work. It crashes since many years and developers do not seem to care or are not able to understand how important stability for media creation software really is. Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an ad…

Based on your comment I guess you have never used Premiere Pro (and never learned ctrl + s)

premiere pro is still hugely unstable but think kdenlive is somehow even worse if you can believe it. It is basically unusable.

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Arguments like this are much more compelling if you cite specifics rather than giving us your own conclusions.

Kdenlive being crash prone is a known thing, but for the parent to say the devs don't care goes too far.

If they cared the issue wouldn't have gone on for a decade or more.

Re: State of Kdenlive

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This argument would be a lot more convincing if you linked to issues or something.

The parent does not want (or claims) to produce a report on Kdenlive's reliability or lack thereof. He merely comments on it. Those interested either already know (and agree or disagree) or can find out with a test run.

So my son and I have used Kdenlive quite a bit and we've never had it crash. That's why I was asking for specifics: it would be interesting to know what circumstances lead to crashes, even if it's just a hunch.

Re: State of Kdenlive

#86

Kdenlive hits the perfect sweet spot for me. It's much more capable than basic editors like iMovie, but doesn't have the overwhelming learning curve (or steep hardware requirements) of DaVinci Resolve. Like others have mentioned, pairing it with OBS for screen recording and Audacity for audio makes for an incredibly powerful, 100% FOSS media creation stack. It's amazing to see how far open-source video editing has co…

Be careful with any serious project, this software most certainly will crash and destroy your work. It crashes since many years and developers do not seem to care or are not able to understand how important stability for media creation software really is. Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an ad…

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Re: State of Kdenlive

#87
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Some very talented engineers work at Microsoft, that much is clear. Whether any of them work on the new parts of Windows 11 is less clear...

AI will vibecode it to Windows Vista quality!

I don't think they vibecode the core of windows though. From what I heard particularly (from osdev community) the core of windows is really good and well structured.

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Right, but it is the SOTA and the sort of poster boy of everything kdenlive competes with.

Is it? I'd say in the higher end that would be Media Composer.

Premiere is in the unique position of being the oldest video editing suite on the market - the first version was released in 1991! Much as with Photoshop, this sort of automatically makes it the gold standard.

Re: State of Kdenlive

#89

Kdenlive hits the perfect sweet spot for me. It's much more capable than basic editors like iMovie, but doesn't have the overwhelming learning curve (or steep hardware requirements) of DaVinci Resolve. Like others have mentioned, pairing it with OBS for screen recording and Audacity for audio makes for an incredibly powerful, 100% FOSS media creation stack. It's amazing to see how far open-source video editing has co…

Be careful with any serious project, this software most certainly will crash and destroy your work. It crashes since many years and developers do not seem to care or are not able to understand how important stability for media creation software really is. Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an ad…

KDE stuff is prone to fixing bugs in both the supporting libraries and software substantially after the versions that end up in stable distros eg n.0 sucks but n.4 ends up substantially improving the prior issues.

I would suggest a self contained version on stable distros or running on a rolling release whichever is practical.left to take advantage of said improvements.

I would also suggest that performance under Windows may be less tested. I personally wouldn't use it there.

Re: State of Kdenlive

#90

Kdenlive hits the perfect sweet spot for me. It's much more capable than basic editors like iMovie, but doesn't have the overwhelming learning curve (or steep hardware requirements) of DaVinci Resolve. Like others have mentioned, pairing it with OBS for screen recording and Audacity for audio makes for an incredibly powerful, 100% FOSS media creation stack. It's amazing to see how far open-source video editing has co…

Or with Tenacity insead of Audacity for the 100% invasive free software setup!

I thought they rolled back those changes in a hurry.
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