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Wondering what video editor should I learn to use? It does not need to have fancy effects, just cutting clips and muting and adding audio...

Currently I use Pitivi however its renderer is not the fastest, has no mute button for individual clips (afaik) and UI is not perfect. It does its job if there is no better options.

But I am wondering how other Linux video editors look like today in 2021? What I value in good editor is ease of use, fast import speed, rendering speed and low amount of dependencies...

Also it has to be free software and on Debian repository (testing)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago

I've used this a good amount, and its solid. Very easy to use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Reason why I have not tried kdenlive is the amount of dependencies and its integration to kde desktop...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Reason why I have not tried kdenlive is the amount of dependencies and its integration to kde desktop…

Appimage?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

kdenlive is the best you can get. even if it's uses Qt/KSE dependences it adapt it's look to match the GTK styles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 years ago

KdenLive 100%

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Interesting. Looks like its a bit overkill for what I need and ui looks difficult, wish it had simple mode. However performance seems great ! Looks very promising.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

At first glance it looks overwhelmed. But it has good docs, tutorials and once you get familiar with available options and required functions it would become easy to use. From my experience shotcut is easier to use than kdenlive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

That's a good one!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I’ve found kdenlive the easiest for simple video editing like your use case, but like you said if you’re not using kde it probably has a bunch of dependencies. There’s also olive which I didn’t see mentioned in this thread but I haven’t used it enough to give it a fair review. And you could probably use just ffmpeg especially if you tend to do the same operations on a large amount of media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago

https://kdenlive.org

https://olivevideoeditor.org

They all seem to be in Debian repos and available as alternative pkgs as well (appimage/flatpak)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago (1 children)

ffmpeg is able to do that quite easily and better than most editors out there. It can manipulate streams separately, cut, crop, scale, concatenate, mix etc. if you don't need anything fancy its the tool you are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Hmm, perhaps bash script using ffmpeg would be able to after specifying timestamps then automatically create video I am wishing to make anyways with editor. I have look into it ! Thanks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

That's how I've been doing things for a while.

It's probably not enabled in the version of ffmpeg you are using, or you didn't specify the right encoder/decoder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Right, now it works thank you :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

OpenShot it's similar to Pitivi, but it's a bit unstable and if I'm honest, I prefer Blender or Kdenlive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

Thanks for suggestion, OpenShot UI options wise looks bit better than Pitivi to me. But like you said its unstable, it freezes when I try to set audio level to 0%. (and that was the first thing I tried)...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago

Intimidating UI and so much functionality that I do not need scares me away from blender as a video editor. If I was a 3d modeler then it would be perfect however, maybe one day !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 years ago

According to Wikipedia it is proprietary commercial software, not FLOSS(Free/Libre and Open Source Software)...