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As the other open source video editing software were so bad, and Blender had a so good reputation, I tried to use it to edit my family videos. But the interface
by neves 9y ago
As the other open source video editing software were so bad, and Blender had a so good reputation, I tried to use it to edit my family videos. But the interface were so weird for a casual user that I quit. This was one of the reasons that I came back to Windows after decades.
- Mister_Snuggles 9y agoI'm not sure what software you've tried, but I've found Kdenlive to be pretty good for video editing. It's best if you can use a recent version though, old versions that some LTS distributons picked up were not great. https://kdenlive.org https://kdenlive.org
- j_s 9y agoThe issue I ran into with Kdenlive was that I couldn't figure out how to cut within a clip without saving to a separate file. I don't have much experience with Kdenlive or video editing in general but am looking for an Audacity-like tool that can slice out useless portions of longer videos (and also mute sections of audio). For now I use ffmpeg on the command line, but wrangling timestamps is cumbersome.
- Mister_Snuggles 9y agoWhen I need to trim part of a clip in Kdenlive, I just use the Cut tool on the timeline and delete the portion I don't need. This doesn't create a separate file, it just tells it to only use a portion of the original file. It's been a while since I've used it though, so there might be an even easier way. For muting you can apply the Mute audio effect for the required portion of the video.
- ConfucianNardin 9y agoYou can also just drag the edges of the clip in the timeline.
- Mister_Snuggles 9y agoNice - I forgot about that!
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- j_s 9y agoI think I was expecting cutting to work with a selection (a click + drag to select a range) rather than clicking to cut at the start, then again at the desired end, and finally removing the newly segmented portion. Appreciate the help as I learn how to properly use this tool!
- ConfucianNardin 9y agoHave a look at avidemux, which can even cut videos without re-encoding.
- Mister_Snuggles 9y agoAvidemux is a great tool, but it would require creating a second file I believe. My workflow is usually to use Avidemux to do a rough trim of a clip (e.g., to take a five minute clip and trim it down to about a minute with the interesting parts in it) and get it into the format I want, then I use Kdenlive for the finer work.
- jacoblambda 9y agoI find that lightworks does a great job
- nickrio 9y agoThere are NO good Open Source video editing software made for Linux, and I'm pretty confident about this. I'm currently using shotcut, it's buggy and just work, not great. With it, you can crop the video, change color, do some easy compose it etc, but that's almost all. If you have a good computer, you can try DaVinci Resolve. Though it's not an open source software, but it will give you After Effect+ level experience. I had some experience with 3ds Max & After Effect, and I tried Blender few days ago (For Editing Video and 3D modeling). What I found is that the UI of Blender is a chaotic torment even for people like me. It even cause some hard time when all I want is just to "close" (Or Shrink) a panel. I'm not saying Blender is a bad software, I just hoping Blender can have a more organized, focused and solid UI. Then it will be friendlier for greens who want to learn it.
- skykooler 9y agoOpenShot is pretty good. Good enough that when they finally ported it to OSX I switched to it from iMovie.
- mkl 9y agoI tried it the other day and couldn't find a way to make precise cuts. You can move frame by frame, but I didn't succeed in cutting at the current position. I switched to AviDemux. The video editing I've done in the past has been mostly with ffmpeg, i.e. command line and scripts.
- cschmittiey 9y agoWouldn't Resolve be closer to Premiere than After Effects? Having barely used resolve (my computer wasn't strong enough to mess with the 4k video I shot, and davinci didn't like the codec it was originally shot in) and with probably 25 hours in Premiere and After Effects, I could totally be wrong, but Premiere and Resolve felt more like editors, while AE was more for post effects and such.
- nickrio 9y agoWell, I don't have any experience on Premiere, After Effects is only one I can use for this comparison. So.
- bayesian_horse 9y agoTo use it as a video editor you really have to understand too much about computer graphics in general, and how Blender does things in particular.