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 like the workflow of kdenlive but I very consistently have export failure or memory leaks. It’s frustrating.
so I’ve used it a few times, but it absolutely chokes on 4K footage on my rig. I think maybe the lack of hardware acceleration for pre rendering?
I have a big project coming up and I’m considering downscaling all the source files, editing, and then slipping in the real files when I’m done. Is that a thing people do?
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?
I recently switched to Linux and was disappointed to find that Resolve is next to useless unless you buy studio and have the right graphics card. I’ve been using Kdenlive and it’s fairly easy to understand. I do still miss the bin based layout of Resolve, but I’ve yet to find a feature I used that is missing on Kdenlive. It’s just harder to find sometimes.
Crack is very easy on linux, like two terminal commands after downloading officially
I used kdenlive for an end of semester project last year. While I was under a lot of stress, none of that came from the software.
No idea how I should be pronouncing it though… K-den-live? Kde-n-live?
No idea how I should be pronouncing it though… K-den-live? Kde-n-live?
Yes, that’s how it’s pronounced
I tried using other alternatives like OpenShot but KDEnlive seemed much easier to work with. I also use Handbrake to convert videos to different formats when needed.
I find shutter encoder easier than handbrake
Had this experience too. Played around with Shotcut and OpenShot, really wanted them to be better just because the name ‘Kdenlive’ is annoying. But alas, the later seemed easier to work with.
Davinci Resolve is also free and supports Linux. Maybe the best non-adobe video editor I’ve ever used. I do use kdenlive for smaller jobs but davinci is on another level entirely.
Don’t you need the payed version for certain codec support? iirc
AFAIK even the paid version doesn’t have much in the name of codec support. But it’s trivial to use ffmpeg to convert file formats
I wasn’t aware. Which ones?
I know 10bit footage is only supported by the paid edition IIRC
This has gotten me when using my A7III.
