Video editor
 

I have read reviews on videos editors. Though I have no experience using them. Currently I use avidemux on windows which technically is not an editor really. What us the linux community options on openshot and other editors. From the articles I gave read there is room for improvement with video editors in linux. For my use I really need a simple editor for my needs.

Thanks in advance

i think it's more about finding the right software project.

kino or cinelerra might or might not be good software, but i didn't like it, didn't venture into it.

i used openshot for a very simple task just the other day, and it's easy to use. i got my results within minutes (plus a few more minutes to get filesize/encoding right).

also depends on the distro you're using, and which version is in the repositories.

KDENlive, Openshot, lives, cinelerra, and others. I tend to do most of my editing on the CLI with ffmpeg or avconv. But most of my edits are trimming or extracting just audio or just video / images. Or capturing the desktop on machines too low spec'd to run anything other than ffmpeg directly.

I am using mint linux 18. I know openshot is on synaptic but there also is a ppa from ubuntu. The newest version is 2.07 but i think ubuntu and mint have an older version.

Think i will try openshot first and go from there.

Thanks

I thought everyone just used Blender these days.

There are two valid video editing options for Linux, in my mind:

Kdenlive. Extensive tutorials available here:
https://opensource.com/life/11/11/introduction-kdenlive

Lightworks. Cross-platform, very mature and polished. Not open source.
http://lwks.com
Tutorials here: http://slackermedia.ml/handbook/doku.php?id=lightworks

You might also try Heiro:
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/product...-family/hiero/
although strictly speaking it's not meant as an editor (even though many people use it that way)

Maybe some of the "less professional" options are good, but in my experience they are all destined to crash. I tried openshot, pitivi, shotcut, and many more, with classrooms full of students and they all failed miserably. Blender is ok but its render times (I mean exporting video) is horrendous and its general workflow is still pretty backwards.

Kdenlive and Lightworks are definitely the way to go, hands down.

I will look into these options.

Thanks

Let us know what you think of each of the alternatives when you try it. It would be interesting to hear your feedback.

Well I think I will have to wait on Kdenlive. Seems that Kdenlive will install on mint 17.3 but opening it crashes. I am using mint 18 so I need to wait for a new ppa it seems.

I looked at lightworks but licensing every month I never liked that. I am going learn openshot. I will look into kdenlive once it can run on mint 18.

Thanks again

Which PPA are you talking about?

Linux Mint 18 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial, so the Xenial PPA here should work:

https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archiv...enlive-release

Seems that all dependencies for kde are not installed on the mint forum post I read. I checked synaptic it is not in the repositories. Does a ppa pull all the required dependencies? Never really use one.

I have to admit that I've personally found that installing a KDE application on a non-KDE setup can quite easily lead to dependency hell. I tend not to attempt it now.

Yes, apt or apt-get should check for dependencies when you install the relevant package from the PPA.

There is also Cinelerra.

Well i rechecked the repos today and the new release was there so i installed it. Took a bit had 72 dependencies. It will open and run. I need to try a video and see if it will edit and transcode or crash. Once i try kdenlive and openshot I will post the results.

I found this post on mint linux fourm about avudemux 2.6. I can not give up on the program.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=222783

I added the ppa and installed avidemux 2.6 would not even open. Removed it tried the qt version same thing. The getdeb option hmm i fear the same issue will occur.

I have mint 17.3 and it has avidemux on it and it does function. Playing back hd video is audio choppy. But I use mint 18 on my home built.

I did transcode using openshot nice editor in a pinch I could use it for light editing. Kdenlive still reading manual trying it out. But nothing will replace avidemux for how i use the program. Maybe have to kerp windows duelboot forva open source program. 🙁

Over all review

Kdenlive impressed me yesterday. Once I read the quick start guide and online manual on the fly, and tested it on a video that need resized,cropped etc it transcoded the video to what I needed.

Using this type of editor is a small learning curve due to the interface which is much different than avidemux. I watched a video on youtube about how to join videos with kdenlive which is very simple. I admit I though since this a KDE application I expected it to crash on transcoding not one crash. I have three videos once I am done with editing and joining I will post the results.

Openshot is not really an editor more of a dvd trancoder creator. Most other are the same I need croping resizing frame rate changing and kdenlive can do all that.

I have not look at cinelerra to much i have youtube videos on editing I will view. I think for now i will keep exploring kdenlive. Thanks for all the replies.

Did try the frontend to ffmpeg winFF and it has options I also can use. but of course I like kdenlive. I may try the mint 18 KDE release once after the beta :). I really did not know mint had a KDE edtion [ I feel like I missed something oh wait I did]. For my needs cinelerra it confusing for me at my stage of use of the type of interface. I will get comfortable with kdenlive
then read the manual for cinelerra and practice.

Wow with openshot

I was trying to find a editor to convert webm video to mp4 and I tried kdenlive which did not know the file type. I than tried openshot and created a project and did a small edit on the video and saved it. than ran the project and encoded the output it gave me mp4 options. I was not expecting that to work.

[ I use ant.com downloader on linux in firefox which has a issue with encoding video on linux which I am working with ant.com to fix] With macs it downloader will encode only so far in mkv but that I can live with. Though this was worth mentioning.

I was using PClinuxOS 2016 a few months back it would not let me install any addons in firefox. I changed basically cause it is a rolling distro and I wanted a stable system.

+1 for openshot!

why don't you try youtube-dl instead?
it defaults to downloading highest possible quality, which, in my experience, is always mp4.
and it works for other video sites, too.

i could never get youtube-dl to work.