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  • #11
    Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
    "starting to proliferate" is a bit courageous, this software exists since 2013 at the very least. That's more than 5 years ago.
    While I will admit I had not heard of this tool until just now, as for proliferation, I was speaking in a general sense.

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    • #12
      So we have this list of video editors that I'm aware of (open source)

      cinelerra-gg https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/
      openshot-qt https://www.openshot.org/
      shotcut https://shotcut.org/
      pitivi http://www.pitivi.org/
      kdenlive https://kdenlive.org/
      flowblade https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/
      avidemux https://www.fosshub.com/Avidemux.html
      lives http://lives-video.com/
      natron https://natrongithub.github.io/
      blender https://www.blender.org/
      vlmc https://www.videolan.org/vlmc/
      olive https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

      And here's closed source:

      Davinci Resolve https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/pro...avinciresolve/
      Lightworks https://www.lwks.com/

      Maybe one day I'll try them all out and post a comparison chart or review of each one.


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      • #13
        Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
        I hope this isn't extremely slow due to the usage of Python...

        ​​​​Also, this is a good example why Java-style reverse DNS naming in Flatpak is a problem. The developer doesn't have a domain, so the project is not "owned" by him/her, but rather by GitHub.
        Obviously you don't develop software and have no idea what you're talking about, but no, these are not problems at all.

        As a user you shouldn't really care about those things, just use whatever works for you. Don't base you bias on technical details you don't even understand.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by jntesteves View Post

          Obviously you don't develop software and have no idea what you're talking about, but no, these are not problems at all.

          As a user you shouldn't really care about those things, just use whatever works for you. Don't base you bias on technical details you don't even understand.
          I do not develop in Python but I do know that, being interpreted (or at least in the default implementation, CPython) it is slower than other languages.

          I do care about speed when it comes to a video editor. Otherwise it does not work well for me.

          Furthermore, I am not a pure user since I do write software in C/C++.

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          • #15
            Most developers sell some kind of services and don't own Shitbox PCs, and as long as you don't run it on a Shitbox PC I'm not sure what the problem is with Python.

            Most Cinematographers use 4k Displays and probably at least have a Ryzen 1700 if not something more for the 8 Cores and 16 Threads for video encoding.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by ElectricPrism View Post
              Most developers sell some kind of services and don't own Shitbox PCs, and as long as you don't run it on a Shitbox PC I'm not sure what the problem is with Python.

              Most Cinematographers use 4k Displays and probably at least have a Ryzen 1700 if not something more for the 8 Cores and 16 Threads for video encoding.
              I kind of agree with you, except that my experience is different. Most cinematographers don't use the likes of flowblade, kdenlive, or openshot. I have heard of some cinematographers using Blender professionally. Most use utter crap like Premiere Pro or if they are able to afford Final Cut Pro and hardware requirements that go with it.

              Personally I use kdenlive limited to 4 cores on a Ryzen 1800X mostly to exposing CS:GO cheaters, videos are usually quite short ~10min. I have no problem with a NLE potentially being a tiny bit slower and keen to try flowblade out soon. I don't deem my project worthy of lossless recording, so my recorder's encoding needs to happen as quick as possible. I am fortunate to have something as good as x264.

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              • #17
                Installed FlowBlade 2.0 yesterday and monkeyed around with it for a bit. I like the familiar interface and it seemed to run nice on my ancient (AMD FX8120) PC.
                I was looking for transitions and didn't find anything other than fade in/fade out. It seemed to have a "Vegas" look and feel to it which I like. I'm going to read some tutorials and play around with it some if I find time today.

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                • #18
                  Originally posted by profoundWHALE View Post
                  So we have this list of video editors that I'm aware of (open source)

                  cinelerra-gg https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/
                  openshot-qt https://www.openshot.org/
                  shotcut https://shotcut.org/
                  pitivi http://www.pitivi.org/
                  kdenlive https://kdenlive.org/
                  flowblade https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/
                  avidemux https://www.fosshub.com/Avidemux.html
                  lives http://lives-video.com/
                  natron https://natrongithub.github.io/
                  blender https://www.blender.org/
                  vlmc https://www.videolan.org/vlmc/
                  olive https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

                  And here's closed source:

                  Davinci Resolve https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/pro...avinciresolve/
                  Lightworks https://www.lwks.com/

                  Maybe one day I'll try them all out and post a comparison chart or review of each one.

                  Locating good directories of Linux applications/products seems to be a struggle. If anyone has a suggestion I am all ears.

                  By the nature of open source, some things get on GitHub or Source Forge and you never hear about them other than through sites like Phoronix, blogs or discussion forums.

                  I have been finding myself reading Linux rags from the UK to try to get updated on either existing products or new ones that float out into the ether.

                  Other sites like alternative.net just don't cover it well.

                  I ran into one case where a UK rag talked about a new Wine manager called Bottles. It took some searching on Git Hub, but I finally found it (just to find out it only works on Elementary). When I google "linux video editor", Flowblade has never come up. (for me at least)

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                  • #19
                    Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
                    "starting to proliferate" is a bit courageous, this software exists since 2013 at the very least. That's more than 5 years ago.
                    2009, to be exact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowblade

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                    • #20
                      Originally posted by edwaleni View Post
                      By the nature of open source, some things get on GitHub or Source Forge and you never hear about them other than through sites like Phoronix, blogs or discussion forums.
                      More like "by the nature of free products". Developers of free products, open source or not, usually don't have the money to set up a marketing campaign for their product, so discussions, blog posts, etc. are the only way for them to get some attention.

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