Kdenlive - best Windows Movie Maker clone out there

[KingNeil]

I once struggled greatly to find a remotely-usable video editor for Ubuntu, and just want all people new to Ubuntu to realise that Kdenlive is a very good program. Get it.

http://www.kdenlive.org/

[ShoeUnited]

Thanks for the heads up. I generally don't have much trouble with avidemux (gtk+). But it's always good to find a better video editor.

Now if only there was one on the scale of virtualdub. :lol:

-Shoe

[niceguy123]

Thanks King,

This seems to be what I have been looking for. I just installed Blender 3D on advice from another thread, but that don't look like what I needed. I just want something that I can edit videos, cut, trim etc.

[cotcot]

I just installed Blender 3D on advice from another thread, but that don't look like what I needed.

Have you been in the blender Video Sequence Editor (VSE) ? Start blender and press 2 times CONTROL + ARROW RIGHT. This gives you the blender part where you can add video and audio, cut, add effects, scale, overlay , ... .
It is not a Windows Movie Maker clone. It is much better than that (IPO curves, keyframing, nodes editor, ...)

[niceguy123]

Have you been in the blender Video Sequence Editor (VSE) ? Start blender and press 2 times CONTROL + ARROW RIGHT. This gives you the blender part where you can add video and audio, cut, add effects, scale, overlay , ... .
It is not a Windows Movie Maker clone. It is much better than that (IPO curves, keyframing, nodes editor, ...)

Thanks, I got that far, but couldn't figure out how in import a video to work with.

[markofealing]

I once struggled greatly to find a remotely-usable video editor for Ubuntu, and just want all people new to Ubuntu to realise that Kdenlive is a very good program. Get it.

Agreed, but download version 0.7, the version in the 8.10 repositories is old and not as good.

http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/pre-compiled-packages/ubuntu-packages

Better still, wait until the New Year as 0.7.1 should be out with less bugs! Kdenlive is rather a new project, but promises to be a first class video editing program.

Kino is also good for a basic DV editor.

[cotcot]

Thanks, I got that far, but couldn't figure out how in import a video to work with.
It is explained here (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Using_VSE). BTW there is a lot of documentation for Blender. It is worth to take some time to get the hang on an editor. I learned kino, cinelerra, kdenlive, blender vse. They are all different. Blender VSE and cinelerra require some more learning time but you get a lot back for your time. Kdenlive is a good compromise between learning time and possibilities and kino is basic but common used to capture footage.