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Flowblade – Free and Libre Video Editor

jliljebl.github.io

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Video editing software has always been somewhat lacking on Linux. None of the big proprietary ones like Premiere or Final Cut are available on Linux, and the open source options are mostly either missing features, buggy, hard to use, or ancient and unsupported.

This certainly looks quite professional and polished, but I can't speak for the features and usability compared to other options.

BlackMagic Design's DaVinci Resolve is free, and an amazing NLE/compositing/mograph/color grading kit. Like Blender meets FCP.

Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

How does this compare with Shotcut[0]? I just recently found out, through use, that Shotcut does not have multiselect/multimove abilities, making it utterly worthless for anything more complicated than one or two tracks of video.

[0]:https://shotcut.org/

This looks pretty cool. However I feel like if they want this to be adopted by the mainstream population, they’ll need to add support for Mac And Windows. Or at least an easy process to get this to run inside the Linux of this OS’s.

Not sure how much they care about it getting widespread adoption, or if they're just looking to fill a need that is lacking on Linux.

Kind surprising to see them only releasing it on Linux though, considering it's built with Python and Gtk it should be easy enough to build on Windows/Mac. Gtk is notoriously not great on other platforms though, and I assume if it's a team of Linux users building it, they don't want to go to the effort of building it for other platforms, let alone building multiple UI stacks so that it looks good on every OS.

On the plus side, it's open source, so I'm sure they wouldn't object to someone trying to build it for Windows/Mac, submitting a PR, or at least reporting the specific issues that prevent it from working on other OSs. A brief scan through their GitHub requests makes it look like they're not against supporting other OSs, they just aren't interested in putting time into it.

I was surprised to learn that many folks swear by Blender's NLE.

I edited a feature length movie using it. Most of the problems I encountered were poor source footage, not Blender.

That said, adding things like titles and scrolling credits were unique puzzles.

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