What's your preferred app for creating video?

--jeremy

For fairly simple things, I just write a shell script that invokes ffmpeg with various metadata options, and with the start and end timestamps of the individual streams. The -filter_complex option allows some mixing. That will likely work also after 10 or 20 years, should I want to re-encode the original video files in a new format.

Sure, this might be tedious for fancy stuff, such as a sped-up construction video that shows only the moments when a hammer is driving nails, but once you have a few shell scripts to use as "templates", it might be workable. Admittedly, I don’t do much video, and most of it just a single sequence, basically straight from the camera.

^ just an ffmpeg frontend.

Openshot, as a rule. Even noobs can't go far wrong with this. And LosslessCut....which is ace for trimming/editing (ffmpeg-based, without the hassle of learning all those ridiculous, tedious command-line options).

Mike.

Agree with both. In particular, LosslessCut -- I've used that so many times. A terrific piece of software.

Blender and Kdenlive

When I was deciding to start editing videos on Linux Openshot was my first choice because I typically don't like KDE applications.
But when I tried to actually use it the performance was terrible. It was loading my system to max,and it would crash. I should note I'm running an Intel Xeon with 32GB of RAM so it's not like my hardware is weak.
I've since tried to go back to it, but I seem to encounter the same exact issues with each release, and I've even tried it on different distros/computers.

Kdenlive is my go-to video editor, and since I started using it a few years ago I've watched the team bring more features and performance to it than almost any other open-source project that I use regularly. For 2020 and 2021 Kdenlive steadily got major improvements.

But I also have to mention Flowblade because they've made a lot of good progress this past year too, and it's mostly just one developer. He's personally worked with me on resolving bugs too.

Hi. Openshot could do with some improvements alright. It's rare that I use video authoring apps besides LosslessCut. I guess a more active user of video authoring programs would notice a lot more shortcomings with them.

BTW - that username.

As a semi-professional (like two side editing gigs per year) - Davinci Resolve is just on another level. Especially paid version with Fusion.