Video editing has become a daily activity for those who do it professionally and for those who just consider it a hobby. How many of us haven’t wanted to improve a video lightning or simply cut it and merge it again? There are many things we can do when we talk about video edit. The good thing about working with OpenSource is that variety will always be there. Here are some of the most used apps for video editing:
Kdenlive: Means KDE Non-Linear Video Editor, is a non-linear editor quite comfortable, and probably the first choice for many people. Despite its simplicity, it allows you a complete manipulation of your video without lag or crash. This is the one I always use for my podcast (at least ’till another app gets the spot)
OpenShot: One of the things I like about this app are its effects. These are shown on a easy graphical window, so add effect is as easy as drag and drop. If you’re looking for an app with instagram-styled effects, this should be your choice.
Pitivi: This is an app that might bring awesome things. PiTiVi allows you to render, import and export videos with basic editing properties,however, they ave hired a student from GSoC to add effects. Lets hope everything works for them and we have an awesome app soon.
Avidemux: This app is the equivalent to Raw editing for videos. Is probably the only app that literally runs over anything.It allows basic edition and filters. However, even if it’s quite powerful, its GUI is one of the lest attractive from the list.
There are many other apps, such as Lives, Cinelerra, Lombard, LightWorks, Kino and even Blender; what matters is to know that there is a huge variety and be able to choose. So far, my fav still remains Kdenlive. This app has prove to be useful and stable with the time. Wat do you think? Which is your favorite? am I missing one?
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Hi. Interesting article. I tested out each of the applications you mentioned when looking for a suitable one to encode HDTV transport streams into H.264 mpegs. For me avidemux in combination with handbrake for encoding worked best by far. Especially when you have very large 720p or 1080i raw data with several hours in one file (often 40gb or more) and want to cut a particular part of that file and rencode to decent file size. Kdenlive and openshot both tend to get very sluggish with that particular task and it’s hard to find a particular mark for cutting. With avidemux it’s quite easy to navigate via keyframes or even single frames to set those marks. Now, theoretically you could encode the video with avidemux as well, but I’ve really had bad experiences there, like crashes on 99% of the second pass when using high quality options (like me=umh for libx264). That’s where handbrake comes in handy. It can’t cut or edit the video, but it’s a very powerful gui for encoding x264 with the ability to fine tune every option. I usually pass the video and audio stream with avidemux into a temp container via direct frame copy (passthrough) and then encode with handbrake.
El DVD de Muses para la Blender Foundation se editó entero con kdenlive. fue muy estable y tenía todo lo necesario. Aun le falta un buen creador de menus de DVD, pero para edicion es bastante bueno. El uso de Proxys eso sí, se hace necesario si no quieres tener lag. Un punto donde mejorar es cuando se aplican composiciones tipo composite y se tienen varias capas, en mi maquina al menos. saludos. la siguiente Opciones para menus de DVD medio decentes tirando a buenas?
oh! se ve genial! deberías hacer un tutorial!
Pues yo igual, uso kdenlive para cosas sencillas de hecho en estos días estaba probando algo que me vino a la mente, hacer una animación 3d con gimp y terminar de dar el gusto bueno con kdenlive, el resultado me ha gustado mucho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrHH8Hmrj5E&feature=youtu.be