#OPENSHOT VIDEO EDITOR HANGS FORVER FULL#
#OPENSHOT VIDEO EDITOR HANGS FORVER SOFTWARE#
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It's just not an enjoyable or productive environment. they take 5 minutes to do instead of 5 seconds) and there's so many UI bugs.

#OPENSHOT VIDEO EDITOR HANGS FORVER FULL#

I actually spent full days (actual days) playing with a bunch of them. Most of these things aren't possible to do in kdenlive or any other editor on Linux and it's not just a matter of 'get used to the UI of the new app man!'. It's also extremely easy to make complex animations by just clicking 1 or 2 buttons and dragging a couple sliders, along with it being very easy to add great looking text overlays, tooltips, zoom / pans, transitions, blurs / highlights, etc. There's so many little UI enhancements to make the process of editing video feel really good and not buggy. As someone who uses FOSS tools (GIMP, Inkscape) for ideological reasons, I'm a bit disappointed by how large of a gap there is between FOSS and commercial video editors.Д¬amtasia is just really polished and optimized for screencast videos.

#OPENSHOT VIDEO EDITOR HANGS FORVER FREE#

I then searched for commercial offerings, and am currently using Davinci Resolve, which is free for the basic version, but even the basic version is light years beyond the FOSS choices in terms of speed, ease of use, and features. However, even with such a simple project, none of the three FOSS tools were easy to use, and all were barriers to my efficiency and creativity. My conclusion was that OpenShot was too basic for even such a small project, KdenLive was usable but lacked some tools which made editing somewhat burdensome, and ShotCut was the winner with its toolset and UI, although it crashed the most out of the three. I also watched some tutorial videos on each of the video editors. I recently edited a small project, a 15 second video with multiple video and audio tracks, some basic white balance and color correction, and minor animations, on OpenShot, ShotCut, and KdenLive, in order to figure out which one was more appropriate for me. P.S.: If you want to try the free version of Resolve, be aware that features like H.264 support and even audio output using non-Blackmagic-hardware is not available in the free version (not sure about the new beta of version 16), but they work beautifully in the paid version. Especially since the MLT framework is used by so many different editors, which appear to be developed independently, it would be worthwhile to join forces to develop one strong application and the framework itself. Maybe a NLE is just the kind of application that requires a big(ger) amount of dedicated (and possibly paid) work to really lift it to a level that actually makes it usable in the real world. (Note that other editors like Kdenlive also support GPU acceleration, but at the end of the day this is a feature of the underlying MLT framework, and it showed that it was about as unstable in Kdenlive as in Shotcut.) And even though - like I said - I wanted to like the open source alternatives, I have to admit that Resolve is on a whole different level regarding performance and possibilities. I wanted to like Shotcut, but at the end of the day, all of the solutions were too slow, had too few possibilities to realize what I had in mind, or were too unstable.ДЄfter Shotcut even disabled the experimental and unstable feature of GPU-accelerated effects, which really helped to make it usable performance-wise, I finally gave up and tried one of the two commercial, cross-platform NLEs that I'm aware of (DaVinci Resolve).

I used Shotcut (which is made by the developer of the MLT framework) for a long time and also contributed at least a little bit, mostly with bug reports and hints where the problem may be in the code. I have basically tried them all: The MLT-based editors Shotcut, Kdenlive, OpenShot, Flowblade, as well as Blender and Cinelerra. This includes simple color grading, cutting, multiple layers of videos and audio, simple effects and transformations (and it must run on Linux). I need to edit and render projects in the order of 2 hours or more on a regular basis. I'm running a tiny YouTube channel for a few years now and I'm regularly releasing videos on it. Still, from a user's perspective, none of the existing open source NLEs have fulfilled my needs, even though my needs are not that exotic.

#OPENSHOT VIDEO EDITOR HANGS FORVER SOFTWARE#

First off, let me assure you that I have a lot of respect for the developers of free software projects like this one, and I hope that it continues to evolve in the future.

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