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In my experience, Kdenlive and Shotcut are more or less on par with iMovie. Da Vinci Resolve works on all three major OSes and is actively usurping the prosumer

In my experience, Kdenlive and Shotcut are more or less on par with iMovie. Da Vinci Resolve works on all three major OSes and is actively usurping the prosumer market previously held by Premiere and Final Cut Pro. (It even has an advanced, node-based compositing tool for visual effects and motion graphics.) It's not open source, though it's free unless you need some features aimed more at serious commercial stuff.

haunter 3y ago
>unless you need some features aimed more at serious commercial stuff or simply H264/H265 which is a dealbreaker for a lot of people.
- snailmailman 3y ago
  The free version has h264 and h265, as far as I can tell. I rendered a mp4, h264 video in resolve today. My first time using the software and it was surprisingly capable. (I needed to blur a moving face in a video)
  - haunter 3y ago
    Not in Linux, only in Mac and Windows
  - jasomill 3y ago
    On Mac and Windows, the free version of Resolve supports H.264 and H.265 (using OS-supplied codecs IIRC). Linux H.264 and H.265 support is Studio-only[1] (presumably because royalties). If you don't care about any other Studio features, converting to/from an intermediate codec — DNxH[DR], say — on import/export using another tool like FFmpeg seems like a reasonable workaround for most applications. Since Resolve doesn't support H.264/H.265 passthrough (on any platform), the only generation loss added by this approach will be from DNxH[DR] encoding, which, assuming a sufficiently high bitrate for the intermediate codec, should be minimal. Note that even Resolve Studio doesn't support AAC audio on Linux[2], so, for many H.264/H.265 projects, you'd end up with pre-/post-conversion steps even if the video codecs were supported. [1] https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_18_Supported_Codec_List.pdf#page=12 https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_... [2] https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_18_Supported_Codec_List.pdf#page=14 https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_...
IshKebab 3y ago
Unfortunately iMovie is still in a different league to Kdenlive or Shotcut. Think iPhone vs iPAQ. Do Kdenlive or Shotcut even support GPU rendering yet? Blender is probably still the best open source video editor by quite some margin.
- cultofmetatron 3y ago
  > Unfortunately iMovie is still in a different league to Kdenlive or Shotcut. Think iPhone vs iPAQ. if you need a feature set like iMovie, why not use davinci resolve? its available on linux. not open source but neither is imovie
  - IshKebab 3y ago
    Good question - I didn't actually know it was free until now. I'll try it next time.

haunter 3y ago

>unless you need some features aimed more at serious commercial stuff or simply H264/H265 which is a dealbreaker for a lot of people.

snailmailman 3y ago
The free version has h264 and h265, as far as I can tell. I rendered a mp4, h264 video in resolve today. My first time using the software and it was surprisingly capable. (I needed to blur a moving face in a video)
- haunter 3y ago
  Not in Linux, only in Mac and Windows
- jasomill 3y ago
  On Mac and Windows, the free version of Resolve supports H.264 and H.265 (using OS-supplied codecs IIRC). Linux H.264 and H.265 support is Studio-only[1] (presumably because royalties). If you don't care about any other Studio features, converting to/from an intermediate codec — DNxH[DR], say — on import/export using another tool like FFmpeg seems like a reasonable workaround for most applications. Since Resolve doesn't support H.264/H.265 passthrough (on any platform), the only generation loss added by this approach will be from DNxH[DR] encoding, which, assuming a sufficiently high bitrate for the intermediate codec, should be minimal. Note that even Resolve Studio doesn't support AAC audio on Linux[2], so, for many H.264/H.265 projects, you'd end up with pre-/post-conversion steps even if the video codecs were supported. [1] https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_18_Supported_Codec_List.pdf#page=12 https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_... [2] https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_18_Supported_Codec_List.pdf#page=14 https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_...

IshKebab 3y ago

Unfortunately iMovie is still in a different league to Kdenlive or Shotcut. Think iPhone vs iPAQ. Do Kdenlive or Shotcut even support GPU rendering yet? Blender is probably still the best open source video editor by quite some margin.

cultofmetatron 3y ago
> Unfortunately iMovie is still in a different league to Kdenlive or Shotcut. Think iPhone vs iPAQ. if you need a feature set like iMovie, why not use davinci resolve? its available on linux. not open source but neither is imovie
- IshKebab 3y ago
  Good question - I didn't actually know it was free until now. I'll try it next time.