kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org/
my music: https://unicornmasquerade.bandcamp.com/
my photography: / breadonpenguins
kdenlive manual (read it, it shows you how to do literally everything): https://docs.kdenlive.org/en/index.html
kdenlive donation page: https://kdenlive.org/fund/
my shortcuts file: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/
@VeronicaExplains made a great video that covers kdenlive, too! • I make all my videos using Linux. Here’s how.
all footage incl. pixel animations is mine.
my wallpaper is a painting by Alois Arnegger ‘winter mountain landscape in evening light’.


I came from Sony Vegas to kdenlive. I am absolutely thrilled to have broken away from Windows and joined the Linux bandwagon but I’m not going to pretend kdenlive is a better video editor. It’s the best I’ve found and good enough for my use case but I miss Sony’s UI. I could say the same about GIMP vs Photoshop.
All that said, it’s still totally worth the switch and I have zero regrets. I’d rather relearn some things than bend over for the corporations that seek to exploit us.
Photopea is a good alternative to Photoshop when you need automatic subject selecting and other powerful features. They have a very similar UI, but it’s not FOSS and they want you to see ads or pay to use features repeatedly. Nonetheless, it is the best I have found for my use cases.
If it requires an internet connection just to use, that’s a no-go. Thanks for a suggestion though.
For GIMP there is a “Photoshop UI” plugin if you still have lingering muscle memory. Perhaps something similar can be made for kdenlive?