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Yeah I have a lot of love for DaVinci, and for black magic's decision to maintain a Linux version of the software. Quite funky UX but a solid piece of software overall. It may be the best free closed source video editting program, with the open source alternatives trailing quite far behind in terms of stability and features/usability (not that you shouldn't spin up KDEnlive and give it a chance!).

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Kdenlive is quite smooth and fairly stable, although the UI needs some work.

Kdenlive is not a compositor though. To be fair, DaVinci Resolve's Fusion is rather rocky as well.

Yeah it is. Obviously that's not it's primary function, but you can absolutely do compositing in it. It works fine.

https://kdenlive.org/en/project/timeline-track-compositing/

I actually needed to do some compositing work with it, several days after my original post, to get around some limitations of Davinci. It was a little unintuitive but could be a really powerful tool in a compositing pipeline!

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