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| OpenSource Video Editing: which? what? and how good is it? |
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| legacy:
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? |
| Halcyon:
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. :-+ |
| RoGeorge:
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/ |
| Red Squirrel:
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. |
| wilfred:
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 22, 2019, 05:55:56 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. --- End quote --- 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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