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Comment by danilocesar | Hacker News Reader

kdenlive is horrible. Really. If you ever worked with professional video editing you know that for a fact.

That said: Kdenlive is, by far, the best option OSS available on Linux. openshot is trying, but is pretty unstable and not reliable for big videos.

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kdenlive is replacement for windows movie maker, not professional video editing.

However, the homepage claims "Our software was designed to answer most needs, from basic video editing to professional work."

"Professional" just means someone paid you for the work.

Well I work with professional video editing and it is my go to tool. I can relate and agree that yes it needs to improve in many aspects but all in all it attends my needs. After the refactoring version is released some cool pro features will be added like advanced trimming tools and nesting.

I like openshot a lot for quick edits and stuff but yeah it would be rough to do anything production level

My disappointment with openshot started when trying some very-basic use cases. I tried the version shipt with my distro, I tried the version downloaded from the site (which is suppose to contain specific version of the most delicate dependencies) and both failed at different moments. I even tried in different computers.

KDEnlive, as I said in another post, feels like 1995's software. But it works for what it's suppose to do.

I tried openshot just now, it can't even change aspect ratio wtf.

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