as we know capcut is no longer good for free users, any recommendation for open source video editor? i prefer option to export projects so i can archive it to my drive.

  • Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz
    25·
    1 day ago

    Kdenlive, easily. The only other video editor that feels good to use on Linux is the non-FOSS DaVinci Resolve (which requires paying for you to get any practical codec support).

    Some people say Blender, but those people must not work on very complicated projects…

    For simple cutting & slicing I honestly just write ffmpeg oneliners.

    • hamsda@feddit.org
      7·
      1 day ago

      For simple cutting & slicing I honestly just write ffmpeg oneliners.

      +1 fo ffmpeg and not having to install another tool for a single task.

      I do not edit videos, I just record with obs-studio and cut out unneeded parts. ffmpeg does that, it does so fast and without any problems + it also works for converting videos to another codec.

      • Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        1 day ago

        FFMPEG is nice when you do something like ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:01:00 -t 00:03:00 out.mp4 and the result is almost instant as there’s no re-encoding.

        • hamsda@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          FYI - you only need -c copy and do not need to specify acodec and vcodec, if both of them are going to be copy anyway.

    • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      The only reason to use blender and why blender has one, is CG animation work. It would be silly to have the interface where you do exactly the same thing as in a video editor, except with the timing of animations instead of footage, but not have one for footage as well. Especially if the animation sometimes depends on when which part of the footage plays.

      Rendering, exporting, importing, finding a detail is wrong, is more annoying than having it right there in the same UI.

    • beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      ShotCut is alright but it chokes and dies with a large video with complex cuts. I tried using it to edit trailers, a pre roll intro, and an intermission into a 1080p film for a movie night I host and it would hang indefinitely and crash frequently.

      For short and simple projects it’s fine, even kind of nice to use.

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    Kdenlive. But it depends on your technical level. I advise you try the rest.

    There are lots of them in Flathub.

  • Apostolique@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been using Blender’s video sequencer. I think it’s great. You can find some pretty good tutorials on YouTube.

  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been using kdenlive. It works pretty well, but I don’t do anything too fancy or complex with it. I’m curious if there are some better options though.