Eckhard M. Jäger

Video Editing on Linux

Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:20:19 PM

video editor, video, video editing, blender, movie

I do not know why but offen i read that video editing on Linux is an adventure. From my point of view that is nonsense and here are the proofs why video editing on Linux is easy:

Blender
Yes, Blender has a superb video editor that works without 3D rendering

Cinerella
A video editing software for pros too

Openshot
New at the area of video editing and tries to be a "easy to use" video editor

AVIdemux
Nothing is faster, better and easier for cutting the raw data into parts

Kdenlive
A full featured video editor for the KDE desktop

Synfig 0.62Kompozer 0.8 Beta

Comments

Unregistered user # Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:39:03 PM

Gez writes: It's Cinelerra, not Cinerella (and yes, it's an awful name for an aplication) :-) There's also Open Movie Editor, and there is a complete rewrite of Cinelerra CVS on the works, called Lumiera (and it looks very promising). I use Blender and Kdenlive mostly.

Unregistered user # Monday, October 19, 2009 6:39:19 AM

Dragos writes: Unfortunately what this list actually proves is that indeed, *professional* video editing on Linux using *open source* tools is basically an adventure at best. The list has some nice tools (Blender, AVIdemux) but the truth is there is nothing on Linux which is open-source and at the same time offers a level of functionality even close to Avid or Premiere or FCP. There are however very high-end, very expensive, proprietary systems which work on Linux with excellent results: IFX Piranha, Autodesk Smoke, SGO Mistika.

Unregistered user # Monday, October 19, 2009 7:46:47 AM

Tobias writes: My experience with this programs was: Blender: Ugly UI rendering problems. I think I'll have to test it with a new graphic-card driver (Intel). Cinelerra: Very unstable. Openshot/AVIdemux: Was not able to open my with recordmydesktop recorded video. Kdenlive: The only program that is able to do the simple tasks I need. I wrote down my experience with making a screencast with Linux here: (German) http://dablogter.blogspot.com/2009/09/screencasts-unter-linux.html

Unregistered user # Monday, October 19, 2009 9:48:37 AM

nafergo writes: You can add Kino, PiTiVi, Open Movie Editor and LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net/) to the list :)

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Monday, October 19, 2009 2:55:31 PM

@Tobias
Jep, Blender at there default interface isn't nice but it is very easy customizeable in any detail. For me it works perfect, but i have setup my own UI.
http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/show.dml/674138
AVIdemux works always without problems too, but i use always an up-to-date version: http://www.getdeb.net/app/Avidemux

@nafergo
I took ones a look at one of these tools (Kino, PiTiVi, Open Movie Editor and LiVES) but most of them didn't work for me or has a very ugly or confusing interface.
May i have to checkout PiTiVi again.

Unregistered user # Monday, October 19, 2009 8:19:56 PM

Anonymous writes: Aaagggghhhhhhh! I can't wait till I learn C++ and C and can help improve these projects!

Shaunak DeShaunak # Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:47:23 AM

I use cinelerra. I find it intuitive and easy to use.

Unregistered user # Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:15:49 AM

fromlugdunum writes: What’s missing the most for me in linux world is the > witch indicate the day+hour i filmed my movies in DV format. I can’t find a software whith this information. This is for me the last thing that let me a small windows partition in my ubuntu. http://fromlugdunum.free.fr/pluxml/index.php

Unregistered user # Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:16:50 AM

fromlugdunum writes: Sorry, but the information was datecode in my previous message

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:55:38 AM

kino and dvgrab from Arne Schirmacher can read the DATECODE:
http://www.kinodv.org/

Unregistered user # Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:08:00 PM

fromlugdunum writes: Thanks area42...i'll test. Is someone could make a DVD video with blender VSE readeable on a DVD player ?

Unregistered user # Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:37:31 PM

Rich writes: Works well for me: Kino: quirky but stable and can do quite a lot. AVIdemux: great tool, use it all the time. New to me, thanks: Openshot: thanks, I'll try it out! Unstable/unusuable in my experience: Cinerella: unstable and impossible to spell Kdenlive: couldn't get it to stay alive long enough to try! Blender: I wouldn't say "superb", I'd say very basic, and it crashed on me.

Unregistered user # Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:46:05 AM

fromlugdunum writes: It's right, kino can read DATECODE, by the titler just add recording: #dv.datetime# http://twitpic.com/mpn6m Thanks

Unregistered user # Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:37:16 PM

Anonymous writes: Some projects need to join forces to create one great video editor.