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OpenShot 2.4.2 Released For Many Improvements To This Open-Source Linux Video Editor
Blender seems like the most stable free software video editor to date. Maybe things have changed since the last time I was looking for a video editor on Linux (1-2 years ago). Openshot, kdenlive, pitivi are all a crashing, freezing mess (I actually liked pitivi but it just couldn't handle the rendering of transitions on longer videos). Blender is a pain to work with at first, all media has to pretty much match framerates, or you have to manually speed match them. Not many effects available out of the box. The rendering speed is slow due to it being single threaded. But the good thing is that you have got the full blender suite to add 3d stuff in it (potentially able to make custom transitions), you can accelerate the rendering using scripts to launch a couple of instances of blender.
Neither is OpenShot, in my experience. And I only use video editors rarely, but when I do, they all tend to be unstable... or at least the most intuitive ones (Cinelerra has a learning curve, which I'm not willing to overcome, but it is pretty stable overall).
Can it handle long videos without problems now? 5 minutes long videos was too much earlier
This, this so much. And in my experience the same is true for kdenlive. And pitivi. All of them are totally fine for my needs feature-wise at this point. I'm not a professional video editor or youtuber or anything so my needs are limited, perhaps professionals would be more. I personally would have my needs covered by a stable kdenlive, openshot or pitivi. That's what I'd love to see. My advice to the developers of these: Don't care about a single new feature the next few years, just fix bugs and make it stable. If a tool I need frequently breaks down then I'll stop using that tool pretty quickly.
Davinci Resolve is looking good
KDEnlive is just as bad as openshot... crashes, corrupted project files, duplicates on recovery ...etc... horrible experience Davinci Resolve
Wow, Dell marketing is on point there. That said, I'm 100% ok with Apple stuff not being prevalent in creative PR material.
Really it's crap for serious work.
Actually I'm using recent versions of KDEnlive and I'm not experiencing all those crashes that ruined its reputation. Sure enough, I still click the "Save" button before every preview because it's not completely stable yet, but it has improved a lot over the years.
My 12 years son uses it too without a problem (I tought him to click "save" too).
A few years back I tried OpenShot and found it easier than KDEnlive, but a nasty bug in the final rendering that made transitions start a few frames too late made me abandon it.
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