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I don't see any practical reason not to use Davinci Resolve, which is free (as in beer) and miles ahead of the open source editors. I used to be quite fond of K
by ggambetta 8y ago
I don't see any practical reason not to use Davinci Resolve, which is free (as in beer) and miles ahead of the open source editors. I used to be quite fond of Kdenlive but having used Resolve for a couple of months there's no way I'm going back.
- jotm 8y agoYou could say... a working monetization strategy does wonders for products, even free ones. Too bad so many Linux OSS developers are fundamentally against that.
- wtracy 8y agoWhy do you say that OSS developers are against that? Personally, I am all in favor of any monetization scheme that doesn't infringe on the four freedoms described by the FSF: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
- jotm 8y agoThe downvotes say it for me.
- wtracy 8y agoThe people who read Reddit and Hacker News don't even begin to represent the Open Source community.
- jodrellblank 8y agoWhat evidence do you have to support that claim?
- wtracy 8y agoFrankly, I think that the burden of proof is on anyone who claims that online discussion boards are a snapshot of the FOSS community. That said, anecdotally, very few of the FOSS developers I've worked with are active Redditors or HNers or whatever.
- wazoox 8y agoThere are probably no practical reasons, but I avoid proprietary software whenever possible, which nowadays is always, except for a couple of phone apps.
- slondr 8y ago+1. I haven't seen a single free video editor that is actually professional grade like Davinci Resolve is. Openshot and Olive/Kdenlive may be great at replacing iMovie and Windows Movie Maker, but there's a level of featurefulness that is a requirement for serious productions that none of those FOSS solutions seem to have. I can't wait for the day in which I can be fully satisfied with an open-source video editor, but until then I'll keep using the solutions that actually do the things I need them to.
- prokoudine 8y ago> Olive/Kdenlive may be great at replacing iMovie and Windows Movie Maker Olive / Kdenlive and iMovie / Windows Movie Maker are vastly different types of video editors. It's like comparing a full-featured DAW against Audacity.