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Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux
- cranberryturkey 3y agocan you track and object?
- Daub 3y agoLooks like no.
- FlashBlaze 3y agoSuper cool! Kind of in the similar vein: https://natrongithub.github.io/ https://natrongithub.github.io/
- miniwark 3y agoNatron look to me to be more like a tool for Special Effects than for video editing with a timeline.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoNatron was meant to clone a compositing program called Nuke, but it crashed every few seconds. It can't even open and stay open without crashing immediately even if doing nothing. I don't know why anyone would go to all that work and release it in that state, but that was my experience.
- danboarder 3y agoThe UX looks familiar (coming from Final Cut, Premiere, Vegas, etc), cool. I also recently learned of Olive: https://olivevideoeditor.org/about https://olivevideoeditor.org/about
- gradstudent 3y agoLove Flowblade! I use it for post-processing lectures and technical talks on my Linux laptop. Tried a bunch of other (better known) editors and they were all disappointing in comparison (slow, unstable or both). Anyway, wonderful project. Thank you devs!
- Loranubi 3y agoAny good open source video editor for Windows? Top google results include https://www.openshot.org/ https://www.openshot.org/ and https://shotcut.org/ https://shotcut.org/, but both don't have obvious links to the code repositories and it took me a while to find them which is often not a good sign.
- dugite-code 3y agokdenlive is cross platform, provides a windows build and is a very competent video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/ https://kdenlive.org/en/
- oneZergArmy 3y agoIt's the best one that I've found for Windows, despite the somewhat infrequent crashes.
- BodyCulture 3y ago[flagged]
- LoganDark 3y agoHitting Ctrl+S every few minutes has basically become a compulsive behavior for me at this point, for any program (not just video editors).
- cosmojg 3y agoListen, buddy, if I followed this advice, I wouldn't be able to use any software. As a matter of fact, Kdenlive is actually one of the better behaved tools in my toolbox. Nothing's perfect, but at least there are almost always reasonable workarounds (like saving your work early and often).
- simulo 3y agoI’m pretty happy with kdenlive, too.
- K33P4D 3y agoHow does this compare to shotcut, because most video editors are just unintuitive unless you know the layout of timeframes and the separate frame windows. Why cant we have a single film strip where we can trim and splice videos with ease.
- Daub 3y agoNot sure about Shotcut, but from my experience the layout of Flowblade seems pretty standard. Anyone who has used premier or DaVinci should be up and running in no time. The NLE interface is pretty much a done deal at this point. Major changes in interface philosophy would be of doubtfully utility.
- BodyCulture 3y agoBoth are horrible and will crash and you will never finish your project. Just use Resolve and get work done.
- chronolitus 3y agoAdding one datapoint here: I made several projects with Shotcut and am glad it exists, but I had to learn to expect a crash and work defensively; That's how often it happened. The most usual crash was while moving clips around, the application died and the window closed, work lost.
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agohave you tested kdenlive recently? it used to get a lot of flack back when but over the last year it has improved and lots and lots of bug fixes
- pepa65 3y agoI recently used Shotcut and it did crash a few times, but both times it still had my changes after reopening. Not being used to the concepts of video editing, I found it easy to find a workflow that worked for me (cutting out mistakes and stitching remaining ends).
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- jchw 3y agoI've noticed that a lot of these tools are based on MLT framework. One thing I noticed when taking a glance at MLT framework is that it seems like it lacks robust end-to-end support for hardware acceleration. It makes me wonder if this is a broader design problem, or something that could be worked on with funding. Surely something like this is far from the top priority, but some of these open source video editors are getting kind of serious, and being able to scrub 4K timelines smoothly and render using GPU accelerated compositing and effects feels like it would put these editors much closer to real-world editing territory. That said, these are all just musings from someone who largely does not use NLEs and has written very little video software. Still, seeing the success that Blender has become makes me yearn to see their success repeat in more fields...
- shmerl 3y agoHow does it compare to Kdenlive?
- BodyCulture 3y agoBoth are horrible and will crash and you will never finish your project. Just use Resolve and get work done.
- Aldipower 3y agoYou are correct. Kdenlive crashes all the time here.
- city41 3y agoWeird, it's never crashed on me and I use it extensively.
- fortyseven 3y agoJust copy/pasting the same butthurt response, eh? Kinda lame. Yes, Resolve is great. If you're not using it in Linux, at least. IN Linux, however, I've found Kdenlive to be a bit rough, but completely reasonable for many medium editing tasks. Yes, it occasionally crashes, but not with any frequency where it makes it unusable. I haven't really lost much in the way of work when it does crash, either. Save early, save often. Etc.
- shmerl 3y agoNever had it crashing. Are you using it on Linux?
- addandsubtract 3y agoIf you are just looking for an editor to cut and merge videos, I can recommend LosslessCut: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
- petecooper 3y ago>Windows and OS X are not supported. Flowblade has focused on providing the best possible experience on Linux and other free platforms. Perhaps "Flowblade: Open-Source Video Editor for Linux" would be a more appropriate title.
- master-lincoln 3y agoI also see this happening often with Mac only tools here. I wonder if we should just accept it or if we really want every tool to list supported operating systems already in headlines? (and nowadays mobile probably counts too)
- petecooper 3y agoAs a desktop Mac user, I see exactly what you're saying. For clarity, my comment was more along the lines of 'saved you a click' than expectations/aspirations for every tool to cover every popular-ish environment.
- xigoi 3y agoSomeone who cares about open source will probably not be using a proprietary system.
- theultdev 3y agoI care about open source as a developer. As a user I want the most polished program available and am not against using closed source if it meets my needs as is and I don't need to modify it beyond it's supported options.
- wavemode 3y agoI find that view rather uncharitable. Sometimes real life simply necessitates the use of proprietary tech.
- darkflame91 3y agoI saw this post hours after I finished a task where this would have come in handy. I had a bunch of HQ video clips from a professional Sony video camera that I needed to string together, with short simple fade transitions. The last time I did this(few years ago), I was using a Mac, and iMovie did the job well. This time, I was on a Windows NUC, and figured Windows MovieMaker should do the trick. Nope. - Opening Movie Maker redirects to the Photos app, with a note that Microsoft Clipchamp has this functionality now and Movie Maker is deprecated. - Install Clipchamp and see that its hilariously bad at batch-adding clips to the timeline. Adding 300 clips, one at a time, is a dealbreaker. - Look up reviews for free 3rd party apps to do this on Windows. Find everyone recommending DaVinci Resolve. Fine. Install Resolve. Looks great. Import my clips, and get only audio. A quick Google search tells me that Resolve free version doesn't support importing 10-bit video. Welp. - Let's try FOSS then. Shotcut is supposedly better than Openshot. Install Shotcut. Import all clips, add to timeline and export. Takes a few hours to export, displays a Success message and gives me the first few seconds of video, followed by a couple of hours of just audio. - F** it, let's try Openshot. Hesitant because I've heard a lot of crashing happens, but what do I have to lose. Install. Import clips. Add to timeline. Let's me add transitions. Export takes a few hours. Gives me flawless output file. Moral of the story: For occasional amateur video editing, Openshot is great.
- sergiomattei 3y agoClipchamp is terrible software. I can’t believe it made to production.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoI think partway through that frustration I'd learn what arguments I need to put into ffmpeg to do that. I may be biased because I've used it for limited editing already though.
- haunter 3y agoFor simple tasks like this I use Avidemux
- vetinari 3y ago
- geppetto 3y agoI've tried many of them and I keep turning to kdenlive, both on linux (my main driver) and windows. I've been using it for years, although occasionally. From my perspective it's the best FOSS NLE out there both in terms of features and stability. For the occasional user it gets the job done. Kdenlive used to crash a lot years ago but I'm not having any issue at all in the last couple of years (while Clipchamp, promoted by MS, crashes all the time).
- JeremyNT 3y agoKdenlive has been my choice too, despite the fact that I am a GNOME user and find the UI a little strange. I've really tried to like Openshot but it isn't really up to the job. People sometimes suggest Blender, which is of course high quality software, but most people reaching for a video editor benefit from a tool with fewer options that is more aimed at basic use cases.
- pxtail 3y agoI like the name, has nice and badass vibe
- papa0101 3y agoDavinci Resolve works on Win, Mac and Linux. Switching to it from Adobe's Premier and Aftereffects was the best decision I've made. Oh, and it's free (not the Studio version).
- dotancohen 3y agoPlease share with us the details. What is great about it? I do believe that Resolve is not open source, correct? That's not an issue for me but it could be for others.
- linsomniac 3y agoWhat I like about it is that it is an industrial grade tool and pretty reliable, and allows 4K output for free, and the full version is fairly reasonably priced. You will not be limited by the tool, it can basically do anything you'd want to do in this space. There is also plentiful help on the net showing you how to do it. The simple stuff is really no harder than in any of the other tools I tried, and the hard stuff is possible.
- dotancohen 3y agoYes, an upgrade path to a quality commerical tool is certainly an advantage.
- KineticLensman 3y agoI sometimes edit videos for a raptor conservation charity. I found Resolve to be great for standard tasks such as creating videos from multiple input clips, trimming / fading / transitioning and editing out bloopers. It was also excellent for audio editing, e.g. getting rid of background wind noise, etc. Some of its built-in tools are quite sophisticated, e.g. setting up key frames that follow a moving object (a bird in this case), and then adding tracking 'targeting graticules' or changing orientation from landscape to vertical (i.e. for mobile), but dynamically changing the screen clipping coords so that a bird flying across the landscape view remains central when converted to vertical. This was all with the free version. I've some prior experience with video editing software so the learning curve wasn't too bad. I did watch some of DaVinci's tutorials to understand the basic conventions, e.g. around the major tool modes, use of the node-graph editor for assembling effects, etc.
- pregnenolone 3y agoIs it GPU accelerated?
- lukaqq 3y agoOnline video editor here, https://chillin.online https://chillin.online, free export with no watermark, easy to use both on desktop and mobile.
- eole666 3y agoShould be nice for small projects. But for anything serious with large RAW video footage, an online video will quickly fall short.
- lukaqq 3y agoYes, we found that other online video editors are not very usable, pay to remove watermarks, can't be used on mobile and export is very slow etc. So we make chillin,if you want to simply add effects, keyframes, animations, merge several clips, or crop a video, Chillin is a good choice.
- spidermonkey23 3y agoI'd be interested in a mobile video editor that is capable and open source. There really is a lack of open source video tools - at least for Android!
- dang 3y agoRelated: Flowblade – Free and Libre Video Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19089326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19089326 - Feb 2019 (7 comments) Flowblade – Free and Libre Video Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534245 - Sept 2016 (1 comment)