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If you’re a hobbyist or just want something open-source to play with, this might be acceptable. If you want a real professional-quality NLE on Linux, there’s D
by packetslave 7y ago
If you’re a hobbyist or just want something open-source to play with, this might be acceptable.
If you want a real professional-quality NLE on Linux, there’s Davinci Resolve. In the commercial world, it’s more known for its color-grading features, but it’s a decent editor as well.
If you’re an actual professional (you edit video for money), you’re going to be on a Mac or PC and using Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, or MAYBE Final Cut Pro (but probably not).
- bardonadam 7y agoThere are professionals using FCP.
- fortran77 7y agoMaybe in the past, but every Hollywood client of ours has switched to Adobe Premiere.
- packetslave 7y agoSure, hence the “maybe”. More and more, though, it’s Premiere or Media Composer (although more Adobe except for high end commercial editing where Avid has always had a foothold). And more and more Mac video editors are switching to PC to get higher clock speeds and better GPUs for dealing with 4K, 5k, and 8k footage faster for less $$$. It will be VERY interesting to see how that trend plays out once the new Mac Pro is released.
- bardonadam 7y agoAgree, I'm quite looking forward to see it.
- blattimwind 7y agoArguably Resolve is picking up quite a bit of momentum in the editing space as well, e.g. DR16's "cut" page.
- packetslave 7y agoyeah, DR16 is a huge jump forward on the editing side. Several of the big YouTubers have been test-driving it and have said many good things vs. Premiere. I think if they had a monthly subscription option like Premiere & Avid do, they'd get a lot more people willing to give switching a try. The free version is VERY solid, but $300 just to get 4k support is a pretty big showstopper for a lot of potential converts.
- blattimwind 7y agoThe free version supports 4K (Ultra HD) but not 4K (DCI), which seems a reasonable cutoff point to me - amateur 4K yes, professional 4K please pay.
- packetslave 7y agoah, I missed that. That is a good cutoff, I think. The free version doesn't appear to support GPU-accelerated h.264 encoding, though, which is a pretty big loss.
- blattimwind 7y agoThe free version uses the h.264 codec of the OS, which limits decoding speed and encoding quality on Windows. OTOH exporting to an intermediate codec and then using x264 or a similar best-of-the-breed encoder is probably preferable anyway, from a quality PoV.
- readbeard 7y agoThe thing is, most people don't actually need 4K. In fact, I believe most modern films—including big-budget blockbusters—are still being mastered in 2K (with UHD Blu-Ray discs being upscaled from the 2K masters). My question to anyone for whom spending $300 on an NLE is a big deal: does your project really need more image resolution than titles like Jurassic World and The Hunger Games? Keep in mind that, in addition to spending the $300 on software, your image processing and storage requirements have now quadrupled. For a close look at the impact of image resolution on cinema viewing, I highly recommend Steve Yedlin's excellent Resolution Demo [0]. [0] http://www.yedlin.net/ResDemo/index.html http://www.yedlin.net/ResDemo/index.html
- amelius 7y ago> it’s more known for its color-grading features Can't you move this to a preprocessing / postprocessing step, i.e., out of the editor?
- packetslave 7y agoSure, that's how a lot of professional workflows go: edit in Premiere or Media Composer, then color-grade the final shots in DR. There are a bunch of high-end hardware desks and controllers for Resolve that make it especially good for professional grading work.