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What about video editing? I mean, I can live with Audacity for my basic needs, but I can't find anything simple as iMovie. Or should I just bite the bullet and

What about video editing? I mean, I can live with Audacity for my basic needs, but I can't find anything simple as iMovie. Or should I just bite the bullet and learn Blender? Does it have preset screen transitions and stuff like that?

ollyfg 10y ago
Have you tried openshot[1]? I haven't played much with it recently, but when it came out it was the most stable, simple video editor for linux. [1] http://openshot.org/ http://openshot.org/
- babuskov 10y ago
  No. Wow, a lot of great suggestions here. I need to test stuff now :)
Mister_Snuggles 10y ago
I've had great success with Kdenlive. It's not as simple as iMovie, but it isn't too hard to get started.
zanny 10y ago
Blender is 3d modeling and animation, vastly divergent from video editing with kdenlive / openshot / etc.
- th0ma5 10y ago
  Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Blender actually contains a non-linear video editor as well.
  - Motomorgen 10y ago
    And it's probably one of the nicer options if/when you finally "get it". But the learning curve is tough.
  - jdietrich 10y ago
    It's the least bad NLE for Linux. The UI is awful, but it's stable and has a reasonable feature set.
  - s_kilk 10y ago
    Blender probably contains a full copy of Blender inside itself too. That program is nuts.
  - morsch 10y ago
    I was completely lost when I tried to use it. I wasn't even sure I found the NLE section of the program.
oridecon 10y ago
Shotcut, Kdenlive, Blender (overdrop)
arebop 10y ago
Blender's Video Sequence Editor just has a couple of quirks to get past. It is not deeply mysterious. Like: the VSE viewer and the Image viewer are similar but distinct; that can be confusing. And OpenGL acceleration on a Scene strip shows a 3D model rendition that is not (in general) the same as the rendered output of the Scene. If you want to get fancy with the compositor + VSE, again there are just a couple of quirks but the learning curve is merely steep, not long.
buovjaga 10y ago
There's also Flowblade from Finland: http://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/ http://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/
wazoox 10y ago
I'm using OpenShot, it's perfectly serviceable, particularly the new 2.x version. There's also LightWorks and many other that works really well.
JoelTheSuperior 10y ago
Have you tried DaVinci Resolve? Last I checked it had a native Linux version. Unfortunately I don't think the Linux version is available for free (unlike the Windows and Mac versions).

ollyfg 10y ago

Have you tried openshot[1]? I haven't played much with it recently, but when it came out it was the most stable, simple video editor for linux. [1] http://openshot.org/ http://openshot.org/

babuskov 10y ago
No. Wow, a lot of great suggestions here. I need to test stuff now :)

Mister_Snuggles 10y ago

I've had great success with Kdenlive. It's not as simple as iMovie, but it isn't too hard to get started.

zanny 10y ago

Blender is 3d modeling and animation, vastly divergent from video editing with kdenlive / openshot / etc.

th0ma5 10y ago
Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Blender actually contains a non-linear video editor as well.
- Motomorgen 10y ago
  And it's probably one of the nicer options if/when you finally "get it". But the learning curve is tough.
- jdietrich 10y ago
  It's the least bad NLE for Linux. The UI is awful, but it's stable and has a reasonable feature set.
- s_kilk 10y ago
  Blender probably contains a full copy of Blender inside itself too. That program is nuts.
- morsch 10y ago
  I was completely lost when I tried to use it. I wasn't even sure I found the NLE section of the program.

oridecon 10y ago

Shotcut, Kdenlive, Blender (overdrop)

arebop 10y ago

Blender's Video Sequence Editor just has a couple of quirks to get past. It is not deeply mysterious. Like: the VSE viewer and the Image viewer are similar but distinct; that can be confusing. And OpenGL acceleration on a Scene strip shows a 3D model rendition that is not (in general) the same as the rendered output of the Scene. If you want to get fancy with the compositor + VSE, again there are just a couple of quirks but the learning curve is merely steep, not long.

buovjaga 10y ago

There's also Flowblade from Finland: http://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/ http://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/

wazoox 10y ago

I'm using OpenShot, it's perfectly serviceable, particularly the new 2.x version. There's also LightWorks and many other that works really well.

JoelTheSuperior 10y ago

Have you tried DaVinci Resolve? Last I checked it had a native Linux version. Unfortunately I don't think the Linux version is available for free (unlike the Windows and Mac versions).