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I was gonna ask that. Every video editor I've tried, even back to Windows Movie Maker, crashed frequently.

I don't know why. ffmpeg is rock-solid. Modern CPUs are good enough that you can basically handle 1080p without touching accelerators.

Multi-threading is not impossible to get right in C++. So why do they all crash?

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Try DaVinci Resolve

Only works on like RedHat? No other Linux

I've successfully run it on KDE Neon (Ubuntu based)

Had no problems running it on kubuntu 22

Only officially supported on RedHat, perhaps. Works well on many other distros (I run it on NixOS).

It runs well on Arch.

Centos is the only officially supported distro, but it works just as well on any other. In some cases, you may need to install some extra dependencies, but not much

Seconded, it is a seriously high quality product and free as in beer in the best way.

That doesn't answer the question. What make many video editors, regardless of their licence, so crash prone?

Image/photo editors never crash (or so rarely), same for most modern audio editors / DAWs and the later can use an awful lot of memory too.

Probably the state of video drivers.

Not saying that you aren't right.

But using Davinci Resolve in an old cpu (as in 2012 cpu) it is a complete pain.

That sounds like a RAM issue.

If you've got a faulty RAM chip, a memory-intensive use like video editing will reveal it. And it usually does so by crashing.

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