Video Editing?
 

I see Openshot and KDenlive on Slackbuilds.org. Has anyone used either or another program for editing videos? I just started getting into Moto-Vlogging and looking for some editing software I can use under Slackware to edit my videos. Any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

EDIT: I am sure some people will go the route of telling me to install them and try. Yes I could, but I have never done any kind of video editing. I guess what I am really asking is, is can anyone tell me if I can produce a quality video for youtube under Linux that is comparable to doing it under Windows?

I recommend Openshot. It's the most intuitive and Keep-It-Simple video editing application in the free software world. I'm using it mainly to edit some hiking and climbing videos I'm recording with my el cheapo camera. I'm definitely not a video editing pro, more like a complete newbie.

Cheers,

Niki

I'll throw out another suggestion for Openshot. I'd suggest watching a video or two on how to use it, but it's pretty simple.

I've used kdenlive. It's good.

If I wanted to get into video editing again, I'd look at Blender first.

Kdenlive is certainly better than Windows Movie Maker, and I assume Blender is too.

I'm still a bit on the fence with OpenShot vs. KDEnlive. Both work, have their quirks. KDEnlive is handy since it can pull DV video directly off Firewire and other cameras. It all also depends if you use/install KDE or not. I lean a bit toward KDEnlve. Your choice will depend on your raw video source and what features/output you need, and the dependencies. Both have newer versions that are quite nice and feature full (compared to what's on SBo), but can be challenging to get running on Slackware-14.1. Both are now based on MLT frameworks/ffmpeg so will be VERY interesting once Slackware-current goes live.

Blender has a HUGE learning curve - very powerful and full featured. However, it may be a bit much unless you are trying to make a cinematic masterpiece.

I didn't know about Openshot, so I will give it a try someday.

But for information, I looked at this kind of software for some times, a lot of started and unfinished projects (I expected VideoLAN's one to be good, but couldn't do something useful with it). So, generally I was oriented to use Blender, which is theoretically complete, but frankly was difficult to jump into when you have too limited time.

I'm curious about your own feedback if you get to test Openshot.

Cheers,

Garry.

Edit: Well I see that openshot is Linux only, unfortunately, I'm looking for a true cross platform tool ( <-> working with Windows, possibly Apple), because I can't be linux exclusive for my job. :(

Is there some guide/howto to use Blender for video editing?

Didn't check recently, but I guess there's some. Blender is quite well documented. The down point is it's not a reference in user friendlyness... :) You need to grasp some basics to understand the tool in an efficient way, I suppose one day or two "full time" would be enough, if you have time (it might worth it if you require it...).

For any video editing - but especially for HD - you need a very fast computer. I'm a recently retired professional video editor, and I use kdenlive for my domestic work. It has some quirks and is not completely intuitive, but there is a lot of help available to get you started with it.

I'm running the latest version on 64-bit "current". Machine is an i7 with 16GB of ram. That handles HD at reasonable speed, but not lightning fast! It IS lightning fast on SD, though!

Kdenlive is developing nicely. It can do most of the things that very expensive professional gear can do, but for free! I like free! Some aspects are not simple to get your head around, but once you realise that it is operationally quite logical - if different from professional stuff - it is as easy to use as any other system. And a LOT better than some I could mention......!!!

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Pete

I imagine they're all on Youtube.

I am using Cinelerra-CV. It doesn't need a lot of dependencies and comes with its own version of ffmpeg.

You are limited to a bunch of codecs like MJPEG for SD material or DnXHD for HD material but there is no video editor on Linux that comes even close to the feature set of Cinelerra.

It takes a little while to get used to the interface of it, but if you know how to use Adobe Premiere you will find a lot of similarities. You can even do motion tracking and video stabilization with it.

http://cinelerra-cv.org/

I have an AMD TripleCore and 4GB of RAM and I can still render 1080p videos and cut them smoothly. The rendering process really slows down with 60fps videos, but 30fps or lower are fine and render almost 1:1.

A while back I was making screen casts for my website using Openshot. I would record my desktop with the 'recordmydesktop' software. I would save the resulting video in a reasonably decent HD video quality format and edit it in Openshot.

I am by no means anything more than a video editing novice and my laptop is very low powered for such operations. The whole process took a bit longer to complete due to the fact that I have a slower system, but Openshot served quite well. Openshot is pretty simple to operate and there are videos that explain how to use it.

Blender seemed a bit too complex for me when I looked into its features at the time. It was nearly overkill for youtube videos.

Thanks for all the replies everyone. Going to try out Openshot and KDenlive and see which one I like better. Then maybe give blender a try once I get more experience.

I just learned about this and I have no experience with it:

http://shotcutapp.blogspot.com.br/

Yeah ! Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Cheers,

Garry.