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I have not been doing any edits of video for a long time... What are most people editing vids with these days?

As someone who uses Linux, I've found Blender + ffmpeg to be a powerful combo. Almost all of the videos on my channel use those two.

The video sequence editor in Blender is awesome for arranging tracks, audio, transitions, overlays, text, etc. And with ffmpeg you can move it to any format you need. To clean up audio I use Audacity.

Blender? Really? Huh, I've been looking for a program to do some simple video editing. Would you happen to know of a good tutorial for the basics of non-linear video editing with Blender?

I've used Blender for video editing, but I had to pull up a fairly long Youtube video on how to set up my environment and choose settings in Blender's UI.

I've just pulled down a 2.80 release candidate with the UI overhaul to see if it's any better. It's actually pretty nice. I just selected the video editor option in the startup screen, and things sort of worked like I expect in a NLE.

Oh huh, maybe I'll just get that then, thanks!

The Mike Meyers[1] youtube tutorials are great. He will do 2.8 based tutorials soon.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/MikeycalDOTcom/playlist

This seems very helpful, thanks!

It takes some getting used to, but once you do it's pretty easy to use.

I have a project file I use as a template with the top right panel set as Video Sequence Editor "Image Preview", the top left for Graph Editor (for transitions curves and stuff), the bottom half of the screen for the Video Sequence Editor for moving around the tracks. Then I just use Add -> Movie/Sound/Image/Effect for all of the actual editing.

When I'm done I switch one of the panels to Properties where I have the render settings configured to use ffmpeg for MP4 output and hit Animate.

Does Blender allow previewing the sound in videos yet?

Pitivi is great until it starts crashing. Kdenlive is stable but adding texts is painful there. I didn't like Blender video editing much (though I don't remember why anymore).

I like https://shotcutapp.com/... It's free and open source, has good Linux support and all the features I need, and uses ffmpeg under the hood.

On Windows I'm using DaVinci Resolve. It's closed source but free, and professional quality.

I'm using kdenlive in linux, works great for my use. I know others are using blender too but I prefer the kdenlive UI.

Same, but I'm looking forward to trying the new Blender UI.

The one I'm familiar with is ffmpeg, a free, programmatic tool for simple to advanced use cases: https://ffmpeg.org/

The free version of Hit Film is really excellent: https://fxhome.com/hitfilm-express

Good to put some VFX.

Aw, I was excited until I realized there's no Linux version :(

I must confess that it was one of the reasons that I left Linux. The other was parental control.

DaVinci Resolve.

Also available for GNU/Linux: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Most professionals use Adobe Premiere (+ Audition/After Effects), Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Vegas Pro, some use Blender and Kdenlive is great for smaller and simpler edits and works on Linux

I used shotcut last year, even if it was a little crash-prone on windows 10.

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