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Would really love to see more resources be put into smoothing out the workflow of the video editor.. even just quality of life features such as "always showing waveforms" and auto-snapping clips when you cut would make a drastic difference and make it highly competitive with Premiere because you already have a world class 3D suite built in.

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Its interface is pretty horrible but it's serviceable for basic video editing, and parameters can be keyframed, so that's something. The issue is that the video editor uses the same UI philosophy as the 3D editor... and it feels awkward. Same with the 2D editor, Grease Pencil.

I don't think it would ever be able to compete with Premiere or Da Vinci Resolve, unless they put significant resources on that stuff.

There is no better free alternative for non CAD 3D modeling, sculpting, texturing or 2D animation AFAIK. There are alternative rendering engines though.

For video editing, compositing there are free alternatives that are much better than what Blender has.

What is the current leader for compositing in the open source space?

Probably Natron. Although, Blender is certainly catching up.

It's okay-ish for projects that involve planned, pre-rendered scenes of pre-determined length.

For anything involving live-action clips (using it for "talking head + b roll".. tutorials, documentaries etc) mainly could use the features I noted above.

More workflow polish the better, though. Makes it good for a wider variety of video types.

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