Blender is alright. It's cool that it has a video editor but it feels a little bolted on.
Davinci Resolve is not actually free for highest quality.
Kdenlive is essentially just a front-end for ffmpeg. Highest quality render settings don't cost anything but like much open source software the interface leaves something to be desired.
It is a great tool though (free too) and yeah been using it for years.
Idem for Blender, it is very powerful, but there are a few steps to make it usable in Video Sequence mode. Also it's a detail, but the filepicker (to import MP4 files) is not the Windows native filepicker, so it's not possible to copy/paste a path... All these little things make it less handy, in comparison to other tools.
Would you have an idea for a in-browser tool? (Without the recurring payment thing; I'm ok for a one time payment)
Old? It's a Qt app that looks best and most native in KDE. Why would one want a video editor in the browser? That does not make sense to me. :)
What does this mean?
> there are a few steps to make it usable in Video Sequence mode.
What steps do you recommend?
> What steps do you recommend?
Here is a good video about it: https://vimeo.com/76661940 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uy_nh0ysVk
You have to customize a lot of little things here and there in the UI to make it work "by default" as a video editor when you start the software.