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I've been loosely watching linux FLOSS video editor for more than a decade. At the time we joked: "stability, features, performance; choose two". But that has c

I've been loosely watching linux FLOSS video editor for more than a decade. At the time we joked: "stability, features, performance; choose two". But that has changed. FLOSS video tools have greatly improved in recent years. Even disregarding blender, some prosumer-like tools broke the good enough bar recently. Kdenlive, OBS, Natron, Synfig... It is becoming increasingly harder for non-paid proprietary tools to compete. Hope the professional market will soon start to benefit from these improvements.

tombert 5y ago
Not FLOSS, but related; I feel like the Linux prosumer video editing scene has dramatically improved. Lightworks is really nice once you wrap your head around it, and Da Vinci Resolve on Ubuntu is even pretty OK. I'm not a video editor by trade, I just make dumb YouTube videos like twice a year, so I'm definitely not "stress testing" these tools in any serious sense, but for years I had to run a VM of Windows with a copy of Vegas Pro installed. I of course wanted to work on Linux, working on a VM is a pain, but I found the existing video editing tools on Linux to be extremely buggy and irritating to use. Once Lightworks was released (and stable) on Linux, I suddenly didn't feel the need to bother with Vegas anymore.