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With the curve editing enabled by default, it will come close to Cinelerra. They have mostly the same feature set at this point. Blender curve editing is unbeat
by Elv13 11y ago
With the curve editing enabled by default, it will come close to Cinelerra. They have mostly the same feature set at this point. Blender curve editing is unbeatable, but as a general purpose Video Editor, it has some drawbacks of its own. They are talking about maybe removing the feature, but I don't think it will happen. Blender is everything at once and does surprisingly well at most of them. For video, it inherit the node editor too, a big plus. But at its core it is not a video editor. KDenLive is not a movie maker clone, it is much more than that and it may impact some simple workflow. I think it is the most promising one, as it is already quite far ahead of its (FLOSS) "competition".
The best movie maker imitator was KinoDV. It is however just as dead of the DV/firewire standard itself. It's still in most distributions.
- morsch 11y agoI tried a couple of times, but I never could wrap my brain around the Blender video editor. I was completely lost, wasn't even sure if I was doing something video-related or drawing polygons which I think is something you can do with Blender? Never managed to find a decent tutorial, either. I'm sure the interface is great once you figure it out, though.
- Joeboy 11y agoThe most immediate oddness is that rather than left-clicking and dragging things, you right click to select things, and press 'g' to move them. Once you grok that it's not too hard to get started. I miss Blender's UI in other products now. With respect to Free Software video editing on Linux, I am currently team Blender but I can't say I've tested the other options exhaustively.
- justinsaccount 11y agoIt makes more sense if you know that 'g' is for 'grab' (and 's' for 'scale' and 'r' for 'rotate') Blender is a lot like VIM.
- nekopa 11y agoThis looks like a promising tutorial: https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/video-editing-blender-using-video-sequence-editor-part-1 https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/video-editing-blender... Part 2 of the tutorial is about basic editing, but the first part is interesting due to color correcting/processing the clips first...