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OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« on: March 22, 2019, 10:38:52 am »
I wonder if I can compile something on my workstation instead of giving my money to Apple for a MacBook. What is the alternative? Something like giving the money to the Chinese Lenovo for a Wintel latpop which looks like an IBM? And for what? For running Windows10 + Finalcut?

We need to have the video-ediging job done for YouTube (even if with a low spec for video quality, aka forget all the HD standards): what do you think about avidemux?
Is it really usable? Alternatives?
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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2019, 10:42:21 am »
If you're after something which has a lot of the features of the big NLE packages (Premiere, Avid etc...) but costs nothing, I highly recommend OpenShot Video Editor. A new version was just released a few days ago.

It also runs on Linux so you don't have to put up with the likes of Windows 10 or Apple Mac OS.  :-+
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2019, 10:57:41 am »
Blender.  Known as a 3D tool, also have video editing.  Windows and Linux.  Painful interface.  Free, open source, no ads, no spyware.
https://www.blender.org/

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2019, 05:55:56 pm »
I use kdenlive, though I find it has lot of odd quircks and limitations once you try to do anything too advanced.  The one I really find annoying is that when you speed up or slow down video, it does not do the audio.  Even programs from the 90's could do that.

Transparency is also done weirdly. You can't just make something transparent, it has to be linked to a track that it's transparent with.  So you can only have one clip at a time be transparent over a given clip.   if that makes sense.  Ex: if you want to have two separate small clips with transparency at the same time, you can't.   Lot of other weird oddities like that.

Oh and another pet peeve is the files use full paths for assets.   So you can't move a project folder to another location and be able to open it.
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2019, 10:16:08 pm »
Oh and another pet peeve is the files use full paths for assets.   So you can't move a project folder to another location and be able to open it.

I was reading the latest release info for Openshot that @Halcyon suggested. That was specifically mentioned.
https://www.openshot.org/blog/2019/03/20/openshot-244-released-keyframe-scaling-docking-and-more/

"Relative File Paths

Once a project file (*.osp) is saved in version 2.4.4, some magic happens. All file paths are converted into relative paths, even paths contained in the undo/redo history, thumbnail paths, file paths, and any other paths found in the project data. Upon re-opening your project, all paths are once again converted into absolute file paths. This allows a project folder to be completely portable, and can be moved on the same machine, can be moved to another machine, and even another operating system… and will still open just fine! This “kind of” worked before, but should now work excellent and with great stability."
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2019, 04:19:41 am »
There's Cinelerra. I tried it once to add captions to a short movie. Put me off video editing for good. Maybe it got better?
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2019, 06:03:22 am »
I was reading the latest release info for Openshot that @Halcyon suggested. That was specifically mentioned.
https://www.openshot.org/blog/2019/03/20/openshot-244-released-keyframe-scaling-docking-and-more/

"Relative File Paths

Once a project file (*.osp) is saved in version 2.4.4, some magic happens. All file paths are converted into relative paths, even paths contained in the undo/redo history, thumbnail paths, file paths, and any other paths found in the project data. Upon re-opening your project, all paths are once again converted into absolute file paths. This allows a project folder to be completely portable, and can be moved on the same machine, can be moved to another machine, and even another operating system… and will still open just fine! This “kind of” worked before, but should now work excellent and with great stability."

Vegas does that well, it's a feature I use all the time, very handy.
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2019, 09:05:05 am »
I'm no video editing expert, but helped my daughter with a uni project.
After looking at many free alternatives, we settled on Shotcut.

Linux, window and mac, reasonably simple interface, many filters and effects.

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2019, 11:56:21 am »
we settled on Shotcut.

it looks very interesting. I will try to compile it on both x86 and PA-RISC  :D
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2019, 01:37:16 pm »
I'm surprised no one recommended Black Magic's DaVinci Resolve 15. It is free and is super powerful.
 
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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2019, 05:29:35 pm »
we settled on Shotcut.

it looks very interesting. I will try to compile it on both x86 and PA-RISC  :D

I've used that for a few small video projects, it works okay except for an annoying habit of just crashing silently on Win10. No error message or logs that I can see (apparently logging is a build option  :wtf:). Really annoying when it creates halfway through a render.
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2019, 11:28:09 pm »
I'm surprised no one recommended Black Magic's DaVinci Resolve 15. It is free and is super powerful.

The OP's request was for an open source option so that they "can compile something on my Linu/PA-RISC workstation". I don't think DVR  fits.
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2019, 10:01:09 am »
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2019-03-21--23-45-23---2019-03-24--10-47-41 - [ media-video/avidemux ] - success - root@dev2.30/7.3.0

this has been successfully compiled on both x86 and PA-RISC  :D :D :D :D :D
The x86 machine is my X61S laptop.
 

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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2023, 01:29:07 pm »
If you're looking for open-source video editing options, you might want to check out Avidemux. It's a popular choice for basic video editing tasks and can be a good alternative to proprietary software like Final Cut Pro. It's worth giving it a try if you're looking to save some money and avoid proprietary software. Alternatively, you could also consider exploring online video editing service providers like Vidpros for professional video editing without the need for specific software installations.
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Re: OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it?
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2023, 01:58:29 pm »
Have you already maxed out the DDR on the target laptop? If not, max it out as video editing is RAM greedy. You can also speed edit tasks along by holding video master files in an external SSD.
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