video editing software

[cyclobs]

anyone know some really good video editing software i can use on gnome :)


thanks

[Zahne]

I was actually asking the same thing a couple days ago. Right now there's nothing that compares to Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere, but Cinelerra looks pretty good. It only edits resolutions as high high as 1080i in HDV, so I'd put it at a prosumer level. It'd be great for small budget projects because it's free!

Unfortunately, Autodesk Smoke is for RedHat only:( ](*,)

[cyclobs]

damn, i really need one for a school project. i don't want to resort to windows

[MartyBuntu]

I dunno...AviDemux is pretty good for simple--->medium tasks.

[unoodles]

Here is a dump of the one's I know about.:D
I have them in order of best to worst (IMO).
Also, most of these are in the repo, so you don't actually need the websites.


Kino - http://www.kinodv.org/
AVIDemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
KDEnlive - http://www.kdenlive.org/
Blender - http://www.blender.org/
LiVES - http://lives.sourceforge.net/
CinelerraCV - http://cv.cinelerra.org/
Cinelerra - http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php
The Open Movie Editor - http://www.openmovieeditor.org/
PiTiVi - http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page
Stopmotion - http://stopmotion.bjoernen.com/
Vivia - http://vivia-video.org/
Lumiera - http://lumiera.org/
FFmpeg - http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
HandBrake - http://handbrake.fr/
MEncoder - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
Thoggen - http://www.thoggen.net/
WinFF - http://code.google.com/p/winff/
Jahshaka - http://jahshaka.org/
LVE - http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/
GopChop - http://outflux.net/unix/software/GOPchop/
frei0r (plugins) - http://piksel.org/Frei0r
MJPEGTools - http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
OpenVIP - http://openvip.sourceforge.net/
CinePaint - http://www.cinepaint.org/
Matterial - http://matterial.sourceforge.net/start/

[cotcot]

Depends on your needs :

powerful : Blender VSE or Cinelerra-4. (but worth the learning curve)

good compromise between powerful and easy to use : kdenlive

rock stable, easy to use and simple : kino

These are the ones I use (Blender most of all)

There are other editors (see list previous poster. If have not used them, I only looked to the features. I think that none of them are as powerful as blender and cinelerra.

The choice depends on your needs.

[GARoss]

I've installed Cinelerra today & believe I need some plugins for .m2t, mpeg2, h264 ect just to add to the time line. Will plugins used in other programs work & were would they be copied to? Is there another source to obtain these from?

[4ebees]

Here is a dump of the one's I know about.:D




I'd take up unoodles suggestions. There are the one's I use a lot:

Kino - http://www.kinodv.org/
AVIDemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
Stopmotion - http://stopmotion.bjoernen.com/
LVE - http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/
GopChop - http://outflux.net/unix/software/GOPchop/

Plus, I use the facilities of SMILE

http://smile.tuxfamily.org/ (yeah, it's in French but you can use babelfish and it's generally easy to follow)

for great slideshow options that can be used in videos plus Digikam (repos) and GIMP (repos).

Thanks for the list Mr Unoodles :)

You can also check out my site:

www.youcantdothatinlinux.com

which I'm currently working on :) (aren't we all)

[maku-d]

Kdenlive has quickly become the most usable video editing app for linux. I'd definitely check out their site- kdenlive.org (http://kdenlive.org)

I've used it to edit a couple of short clips and a three hour, two cam shoot of a stage play (really for testing purposes only, but it survived every project). It used to crash a lot more than it does since the kde4 version (oh, in case you were wondering I'm an editor by trade, hence haven't used it on any mission critical job for clients and wouldn't at present, though who knows in future? At this point though, it's unlikely). The kde4 version is great- and it'll run in gnome, so no problems there. It's far more intuitive (and actively being developed) than cinelerra, and more feature rich than kino. It's undoubtedly the closest there is to a commercial editing app available for linux at this point in time.

Hope this helps, good luck with your project.