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Within the last month I got an action cam and have started to edit videos to post on Youtube. Mostly "HOWTO" videos, because I've learned so much by watching H

Within the last month I got an action cam and have started to edit videos to post on Youtube. Mostly "HOWTO" videos, because I've learned so much by watching HOWTO videos. I'm just finishing up a major remodel of my kitchen, with youtube videos being a large contributing factor to my success. Kdenlive I haven't tried yet, but is on my short list to try. I've been using LightWorks under Linux and it works pretty well. I mean, I have nothing else to compare it to, but I'm doing 4K30fps video, and a friend of mine tells me that his Macbook Pro with Adobe tools isn't up to the task. I'm running on a 5 year old PC I had in the closet (870K CPU, 16GB RAM, Radeon, SSD), and it works fairly well. The only downside of Lightworks so far has been that to export to Youtube at 4K you have to "subscribe", you can't just buy the software. You can do your editing and play with it, and export 720p video. But to export 4K, you have to either pay $25/mo or $170/year. I wasn't sure how much I'd like editing video, so I didn't want to pay $170. so I did the $25 for a month. I'm really enjoying it, but I kind of wish I could just pay $200-$300 and be done with it. Which I realize isn't rational, because that'll buy a lot of $25 months. Other ones I want to try: Kdenlive, Davinci Resolve (tried it and it segfaulted, $170/year), Cinelerra (looks kind of crappy), Flowblade. Pitivi looks to be abandoned. Maybe I should try Blender, but I don't want to do any 3D stuff, don't want to get sidetracked. There's also an online NL video editor that my daughter has used for school: wevideo. She showed it to me after seeing me running LightWorks and recognizing the workflow. I'm dealing with 75-200GB though, don't think that's going to work for online. Smaller video will probably work, my daughter uses it to voice-over a series of photos turned into video. There are a few rough edges, but Lightworks has mostly let me, as a neophyte video guy, to make great videos. Took me an hour to import an MP3 this weekend though.

dsego 8y ago
Don't forget Shotcut.
- linsomniac 8y ago
  Thank you, I couldn't remember if shotcut was one that made my short list of ones to look at but it looks like it was.
- linsomniac 8y ago
  I edited a video yesterday in Shotcut and it looks pretty good. I do seem to end up with a lot of glitches that I have to go back and clean up, usually repeated frames at clip transitions, though one seems to be repeated frames within a clip. I imagine it is something I'm doing, like how I drag the clips together? But I haven't had that problem in any other editor. I think I'm sold on Davinci Resolve though. It's pretty sweet, extremely full featured, free for most uses and reasonably priced for the full kit ($300 IIRC. That adds the ability to do multi-GPU and have multiple users collaborating, plus 6K and 8K editing). I had to upgrade my GPU though. My old one had 2GB and Resolve was like "Oh, that's ADORABLE!" It was a 5-6 year old computer though. I also put it under Windows, it just seems to run better there. I had battled for an hour to get to the point where it stopped segfaulting under Linux and started complaining about not enough video RAM. But now that Linux install is janked, something related to the AMD GPU packages. Probably not TOO hard a fix, since it was all .debs.
aleb 8y ago
What gave you the impression Pitivi is abandoned?
- linsomniac 8y ago
  I'd heard a few years ago that it was pretty problematic software, and when I went around looking at alternatives it was one of the least recently updated (latest stable release 17 months ago, according to Wikipedia). So maybe "abandoned" isn't the right word, but that was the impression I left with. The problem I had when searching was that there was a ton of choice under Linux (my short list was 10), but researching them from that point is not easy. They pretty much all show the same screenshot (media, clip monitor, timeline, timeline monitor). But how do you tell: Is it reliable? Does it have the effects I'll need? Is it serious or a toy? Normally, I'd have heard of some things and at least know a reputation for something in the field. But video editing is so foreign to my domain, that I've maybe heard one thing about the Linux options over the last decade. Mostly you hear about Final Cut vs. Adobe Premier.

dsego 8y ago

Don't forget Shotcut.

linsomniac 8y ago
Thank you, I couldn't remember if shotcut was one that made my short list of ones to look at but it looks like it was.
linsomniac 8y ago
I edited a video yesterday in Shotcut and it looks pretty good. I do seem to end up with a lot of glitches that I have to go back and clean up, usually repeated frames at clip transitions, though one seems to be repeated frames within a clip. I imagine it is something I'm doing, like how I drag the clips together? But I haven't had that problem in any other editor. I think I'm sold on Davinci Resolve though. It's pretty sweet, extremely full featured, free for most uses and reasonably priced for the full kit ($300 IIRC. That adds the ability to do multi-GPU and have multiple users collaborating, plus 6K and 8K editing). I had to upgrade my GPU though. My old one had 2GB and Resolve was like "Oh, that's ADORABLE!" It was a 5-6 year old computer though. I also put it under Windows, it just seems to run better there. I had battled for an hour to get to the point where it stopped segfaulting under Linux and started complaining about not enough video RAM. But now that Linux install is janked, something related to the AMD GPU packages. Probably not TOO hard a fix, since it was all .debs.

aleb 8y ago

What gave you the impression Pitivi is abandoned?

linsomniac 8y ago
I'd heard a few years ago that it was pretty problematic software, and when I went around looking at alternatives it was one of the least recently updated (latest stable release 17 months ago, according to Wikipedia). So maybe "abandoned" isn't the right word, but that was the impression I left with. The problem I had when searching was that there was a ton of choice under Linux (my short list was 10), but researching them from that point is not easy. They pretty much all show the same screenshot (media, clip monitor, timeline, timeline monitor). But how do you tell: Is it reliable? Does it have the effects I'll need? Is it serious or a toy? Normally, I'd have heard of some things and at least know a reputation for something in the field. But video editing is so foreign to my domain, that I've maybe heard one thing about the Linux options over the last decade. Mostly you hear about Final Cut vs. Adobe Premier.