I have iMovie 9.0 on iMac running 10.13.6. What's closest thing in Linux to that?

Thought I would try iMovie on the Mac, but, you guessed it, only works with certain video cameras, but not mine which produces .mov. Can go through hoops to use .mov but want to keep it simple while learning.

I did use devede to put Christmas home .mov videos on DVD.

boy, the Mac way of doing things is weird. Nice looking product though.

Hi,

might be worthwhile saying what you are actually trying to do, otherwise you are limiting yourself to people who use iMovie, which is probably only I tiny subset of the people on this forum.

Evo2.

yes, would be nice to explain what do you really want to achieve. You may try to convert that video too.

have a look here for alternatives ...
https://alternativeto.net/software/i...platform=linux

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I want to edit videos of event taken with 3 identical cameras at the same time. They were placed in different positions. I want to change from one view point in the time line to another. That would make it more interesting than just having one continuous shot.

Maybe try OpenShot

https://www.openshot.org/

I use flowblade for video editing. There are other options: kdenlive is popular. However both of these are probably overkill for what you want.

Evo2.

I just want to learn the fundamentals.

Probably best to use one of the simple ones then. Eg openshot, shotcut, pitivi etc. Get it from your distros repos if possible.

Evo2.

A personal favorite of mine is shotcut https://shotcut.org/

There’s also openshot but it isn’t as robust as shotcut.

Yes, I wanted to suggest shotcut too (just I'm a bit late).
To OP: these tools are all different, so probably you need to learn how to use them, but (I think) it is not that difficult. What you described in post #5 is not the "fundamentals", but an advanced feature, but definitely doable.

I used to work with iMovie when I was on a Mac,

This post is over a year old, and you're posting a link to software that's for Windows, on a LINUX forum. Is there a point to this???

Reported.

For my Mac, and due to particular project requirements at that time, I bought a copy of "Final Cut Pro." Which is "iMovie's" professional big brother. I have, however, never encountered file-format issues with either product. (I don't connect directly to "video cameras.")

But I have also used "ShotCut" and "OpenShot," and I can say that both of these should easily do anything that you may need. Both of them are "very solid," widely used and well-supported. If you have media assets in any commonly-used file format and simply want to "cut them together, with audio," to create a short movie, both of these products can do that in their sleep.