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Anyone with experience that can comment on this vs. kdenlive?

themodelplumber 8y ago
I was just searching for this same thing. I found one person saying it was much easier to install OpenShot in Windows, and another 1y ago saying it was still struggling in some fundamental operations compared to Kdenlive. For my personal use on Xubuntu, I have only tried Kdenlive but it has been very easy and mostly reliable, with a crash every 4-5 times I use it. My edits are so simple that a crash isn't even frustrating, though.
csdreamer7 8y ago
+ Much easier to use. + Lots of builtins. Not sure where to find kdenlive's builtins. + Saves projects as .mlt files which uses the mlt framework which I assume can be used with other editors?
- Vogtinator 8y ago
  Kdenlive also uses mlt, in the same way and is arguably easier to use in its newest 19.04 version. If by builtins you mean effects, kdenlive has so many of them I doubt that OpenShot has more.
tadzik_ 8y ago
I did some small-time editing, I gave up on Openshot because of its stability and the lack of all the effects that Kdenlive provides over it. Mind that it was a good few years ago, so if openshot has massively improved since then it may not be applicable anymore. There's also [this](https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade), which I stumbled upon a while back but have yet to try it.
andrewshadura 8y ago
Kdenlive works. Openshot consistently produces shaky videos with video and audio out of sync.
shard 8y ago
I recently edited a small project, a 15 second video with multiple video and audio tracks, some basic white balance and color correction, and minor animations, on OpenShot, ShotCut, and KdenLive, in order to figure out which one was more appropriate for me. I also watched some tutorial videos on each of the video editors. My conclusion was that OpenShot was too basic for even such a small project, KdenLive was usable but lacked some tools which made editing somewhat burdensome, and ShotCut was the winner with its toolset and UI, although it crashed the most out of the three. However, even with such a simple project, none of the three FOSS tools were easy to use, and all were barriers to my efficiency and creativity. I then searched for commercial offerings, and am currently using Davinci Resolve, which is free for the basic version, but even the basic version is light years beyond the FOSS choices in terms of speed, ease of use, and features. As someone who uses FOSS tools (GIMP, Inkscape) for ideological reasons, I'm a bit disappointed by how large of a gap there is between FOSS and commercial video editors.
- semi-extrinsic 8y ago
  I know that Blender is often cited as an unlikely but very good FOSS video editor. Did you consider it also for your comparison?
  - shard 8y ago
    When I was researching which FOSS video editors to try, I read a few reviews which talked about how Blender is less intuitive and more difficult to use than the other choices (OpenShot, Shotcut, KdenLive) so I did not try it. I did a quick search just now, and saw that Blender offers vectorscope and waveform functions, which when I started doing editing I did not know about, but now I find extremely helpful in getting white balance and color correction right. If I haven't already been spoiled by the speed and ease of use of Davinci Resolve, I think I would have tried Blender.
- wazoox 8y ago
  I also heard good things of Olive ( https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ ).
JeremyNT 8y ago
I've tried both. I think for basic tasks the openshot ux is more refined and it's what I gravitate towards. Kdenlive seemed a bit more powerful but it was harder for me to understand how to use it. Unlike others I've never had any technical issues with openshot. I use the output preset profiles and it does great for me. Disclaimer though, my need are very basic.

I was just searching for this same thing. I found one person saying it was much easier to install OpenShot in Windows, and another 1y ago saying it was still struggling in some fundamental operations compared to Kdenlive. For my personal use on Xubuntu, I have only tried Kdenlive but it has been very easy and mostly reliable, with a crash every 4-5 times I use it. My edits are so simple that a crash isn't even frustrating, though.

csdreamer7 8y ago

+ Much easier to use. + Lots of builtins. Not sure where to find kdenlive's builtins. + Saves projects as .mlt files which uses the mlt framework which I assume can be used with other editors?

Vogtinator 8y ago
Kdenlive also uses mlt, in the same way and is arguably easier to use in its newest 19.04 version. If by builtins you mean effects, kdenlive has so many of them I doubt that OpenShot has more.

tadzik_ 8y ago

I did some small-time editing, I gave up on Openshot because of its stability and the lack of all the effects that Kdenlive provides over it. Mind that it was a good few years ago, so if openshot has massively improved since then it may not be applicable anymore. There's also [this](https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade), which I stumbled upon a while back but have yet to try it.

andrewshadura 8y ago

Kdenlive works. Openshot consistently produces shaky videos with video and audio out of sync.

shard 8y ago

I recently edited a small project, a 15 second video with multiple video and audio tracks, some basic white balance and color correction, and minor animations, on OpenShot, ShotCut, and KdenLive, in order to figure out which one was more appropriate for me. I also watched some tutorial videos on each of the video editors. My conclusion was that OpenShot was too basic for even such a small project, KdenLive was usable but lacked some tools which made editing somewhat burdensome, and ShotCut was the winner with its toolset and UI, although it crashed the most out of the three. However, even with such a simple project, none of the three FOSS tools were easy to use, and all were barriers to my efficiency and creativity. I then searched for commercial offerings, and am currently using Davinci Resolve, which is free for the basic version, but even the basic version is light years beyond the FOSS choices in terms of speed, ease of use, and features. As someone who uses FOSS tools (GIMP, Inkscape) for ideological reasons, I'm a bit disappointed by how large of a gap there is between FOSS and commercial video editors.

semi-extrinsic 8y ago
I know that Blender is often cited as an unlikely but very good FOSS video editor. Did you consider it also for your comparison?
- shard 8y ago
  When I was researching which FOSS video editors to try, I read a few reviews which talked about how Blender is less intuitive and more difficult to use than the other choices (OpenShot, Shotcut, KdenLive) so I did not try it. I did a quick search just now, and saw that Blender offers vectorscope and waveform functions, which when I started doing editing I did not know about, but now I find extremely helpful in getting white balance and color correction right. If I haven't already been spoiled by the speed and ease of use of Davinci Resolve, I think I would have tried Blender.
wazoox 8y ago
I also heard good things of Olive ( https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ ).

JeremyNT 8y ago

I've tried both. I think for basic tasks the openshot ux is more refined and it's what I gravitate towards. Kdenlive seemed a bit more powerful but it was harder for me to understand how to use it. Unlike others I've never had any technical issues with openshot. I use the output preset profiles and it does great for me. Disclaimer though, my need are very basic.