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I've used Kdenlive pretty extensively (as a hobbyist). It has an impressive collections of features. Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stabi

I've used Kdenlive pretty extensively (as a hobbyist). It has an impressive collections of features. Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability. I've had it eat my project (and even corrupt save files). Back up frequently if you use it. The last time I used it, it was pretty stable, so possibly they are improving in that area. My biggest complaint is that the workflow is tedious. There are absolutely not enough keyboard short cuts. If you apply the same transformations over and over again with slight changes, you're going to be hugging that mouse pretty tightly. My next biggest gripe is that the sound editing was really flaky when I was using it. I eventually gave up and did all my sound editing in Audacity. I often liked to do transformations with sound and video at the same time and it was really hit or miss if you could preview it, or if it would bug out, or if it might crash things. The thing is, I really want to like Kdenlive because it is really close to being able to do what I want, but I just felt that every step of the way I had to be very creative just to figure out a workflow that would work well. I eventually moved to the video editor in Blender which has a lot fewer features, but the workflow is really exceptional. I figured that what time I saved struggling with Kdenlive I could spend using other tools for features that aren't in Blender. I don't do any video editing any more (I decided video isn't really a medium that I enjoy being expressive in), so take my comments with a grain of salt.

ktpsns 8y ago
> Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability. Second that. Had great and worse times with Kdenlive. My general feeling: KDE software tends to be more unstable (i.e. crash or freeze more frequently) then GNOME software. But they have in general more features. Just compare the KDE office suite, Calligra, against OpenOffice (which is however not related to GNOME). It is amazing at what speed KDE software moves, in general.
- dotancohen 8y ago
  What features does Calligra have that are lacking in LibreOffice? LibreOffice's word processor is actually one of the most feature-rich Linux software that I can think of. The presentation and spreadsheet do need some work, though.
  - ktpsns 8y ago
    Yep. Didn't want to compare Calligra and LibreOffice in detail, just tell that the GNOME office programs are much more rudimentary then the KDEs. It's a quite unobjective, unqualified statement about a consumer's expression of the state of an OSS ecosystem.
- mercure 8y ago
  > > Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability. > Second that. Had great and worse times with Kdenlive. Agree also. Two elements of hope regarding stability : - The timeline refactoring is nearly completed - A nice fuzzing system has been added, which should really help : see https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/03/inside-kdenlive-how-to-fuzz-a-complex-gui-application/ https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/03/inside-kdenlive-how-to-fuzz-...
gbrown 8y ago
I can second the use of audacity for sound editing in Kdenlive. I found it pretty stable though (2018).
lolpython 8y ago
I used kdenlive frequently as a hobbyist 5 years ago and it crashed quite often, without leaving an autosave of my progress. I got used to saving really often. Glad to hear that it has improved in this department, I should take a look again. Stability issues aside, I think it's one of the better pieces of open source software I have ever used.
g105b 8y ago
I tried various video editors for Linux and found Kdenlive to be the best looking, but as soon as I used it I frequently lost work through crashes and corruptions. Tried again not too long ago and it's still very poor in this regard.

ktpsns 8y ago

> Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability. Second that. Had great and worse times with Kdenlive. My general feeling: KDE software tends to be more unstable (i.e. crash or freeze more frequently) then GNOME software. But they have in general more features. Just compare the KDE office suite, Calligra, against OpenOffice (which is however not related to GNOME). It is amazing at what speed KDE software moves, in general.

dotancohen 8y ago
What features does Calligra have that are lacking in LibreOffice? LibreOffice's word processor is actually one of the most feature-rich Linux software that I can think of. The presentation and spreadsheet do need some work, though.
- ktpsns 8y ago
  Yep. Didn't want to compare Calligra and LibreOffice in detail, just tell that the GNOME office programs are much more rudimentary then the KDEs. It's a quite unobjective, unqualified statement about a consumer's expression of the state of an OSS ecosystem.
mercure 8y ago
> > Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability. > Second that. Had great and worse times with Kdenlive. Agree also. Two elements of hope regarding stability : - The timeline refactoring is nearly completed - A nice fuzzing system has been added, which should really help : see https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/03/inside-kdenlive-how-to-fuzz-a-complex-gui-application/ https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/03/inside-kdenlive-how-to-fuzz-...

gbrown 8y ago

I can second the use of audacity for sound editing in Kdenlive. I found it pretty stable though (2018).

lolpython 8y ago

I used kdenlive frequently as a hobbyist 5 years ago and it crashed quite often, without leaving an autosave of my progress. I got used to saving really often. Glad to hear that it has improved in this department, I should take a look again. Stability issues aside, I think it's one of the better pieces of open source software I have ever used.

g105b 8y ago

I tried various video editors for Linux and found Kdenlive to be the best looking, but as soon as I used it I frequently lost work through crashes and corruptions. Tried again not too long ago and it's still very poor in this regard.