Eckhard M. Jäger

Video Editing on Linux

Sunday, 18. October 2009, 19:20:19

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

Kompozer 0.8 BetaRAW News

Comments

Anonymous # 18. October 2009, 19:39

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.

Anonymous # 19. October 2009, 06:39

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.

Anonymous # 19. October 2009, 07:46

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

Anonymous # 19. October 2009, 09:48

nafergo writes:

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

area42 # 19. October 2009, 14:55

@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.

Anonymous # 19. October 2009, 20:19

Anonymous writes:

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

Shaunak # 20. October 2009, 02:47

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

Anonymous # 20. October 2009, 10:15

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

Anonymous # 20. October 2009, 10:16

fromlugdunum writes:

Sorry, but the information was datecode in my previous message

area42 # 20. October 2009, 11:55

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

Anonymous # 20. October 2009, 15:08

fromlugdunum writes:

Thanks area42...i'll test.

Is someone could make a DVD video with blender VSE readeable on a DVD player ?

Anonymous # 21. October 2009, 19:37

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.

Anonymous # 24. October 2009, 08:46

fromlugdunum writes:

It's right, kino can read DATECODE, by the titler just add
recording: #dv.datetime#

http://twitpic.com/mpn6m

Thanks

Anonymous # 10. November 2009, 22:37

Anonymous writes:

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