[Discuss] linux video editors?

[sweetser at alum.mit.edu (Doug)]

Davinci Resolve is professional (similar level as Adobe and Final Cut Pro)
and free as in different business model. The company Black Magic makes and
sells expensive cameras. I think the game they play to get one to pay the
$400 is to limit the number of codex they support on Linux for the free
version. If the program understands your video file, it can do everything.
If the Linux version doesn't work, then it probably will work on Windows
which the free one has more codexes.

There are more bells and whistles than you will ever dive into. I often
have to use YouTube to understand how to get a particular task done. I
would call the learning curve medium and the upper limit professional video
editing. But there will always be a tutorial, that's the focus of some
people who use the software.

In the same program I also do all my sound editing. I was able to increase
the level of a particular singer who sung quietly relative to the rest. It
also does normalization, so all the sound tracks reach the same level.

Doug

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 7:23 PM Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:

> On 11/14/2020 4:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > R. Luoma wrote:
> >>
> >> Would someone have recommendations
> >> for software to edit video files
> >> on linux?
> >
> > kdenlive
> > shotcut
> > flowblade
> > and blender has a video editor component
> >
> > Different people will swear by and at each of these.
>
> kdenlive was pretty intuitive for me; lets you cut clips together,
> overlay an audio track, etc without much fuss.
>
> I've tried cinnerella various times over the years, but I think the
> audience for that is more professional (read: skilled).  But has a lot
> more tools if you want to be doing effects (more than the transition
> effects).
>
> Matt
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