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Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

#91

Post by MilStdJunkie » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 2:27 PM UTC

Intralexical wrote: post #90

MilStdJunkie wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Speaking respectfully, does anything look the same as the 2.4 days? That was before the giant UI flush, when they decided, "screw it, make it look like Maya" (I was pretty hostile at first, especially since half my Python scripts stopped working, but I eventually got used to it. I keep an old EXE for the old scripts I really need, but with geo nodes I'm hitting those less and less).

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

#92

Post by Intralexical » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 5:02 PM UTC

MilStdJunkie wrote: post #91

Intralexical wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Speaking respectfully, does anything look the same as the 2.4 days? That was before the giant UI flush, when they decided, "screw it, make it look like Maya" (I was pretty hostile at first, especially since half my Python scripts stopped working, but I eventually got used to it. I keep an old EXE for the old scripts I really need, but with geo nodes I'm hitting those less and less).

The aesthetic changes are mostly just theming, really. For a long time they even kept shipping a 2.4X-style theme IIRC— It looked old enough to prevent my old high school teacher from getting scared, in maybe the late 2.6X days. Looks like there's still a default "XSI" theme that gets pretty close to that. And up until pretty late you could still make the properties panel horizontal instead of vertical with a RMB menu option (which I can't seem to find in the latest versions), though the layout didn't really work too well in that mode.

Re: Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

#93

Post by extraduder_ire » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 11:07 PM UTC

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 think partway through that frustration I'd learn what arguments I need to put into ffmpeg to do that. I may be biased because I've used it for limited editing already though.