Best and Easiest Movie editor

[yuvlevental]

which movie editor is the best? I want to create something like this (http://teen.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/warcraft-3-music-video/)

[spok]

My vote goes for Kino.

[Dragonbite]

Cinerella, I believe, is one of the powerful ones out there but with a steep learning curve.

KDEnlive is a newcomer and I've heard good things but don't know if it's up to snuff yet.

If you are creating the Warcraft characters from scratch you might use Blender.

[rsambuca]

Cinelerra is probably the best, but like the previous poster indicated, takes a while to figure out how to use the darn thing. A very powerful tool.

Avidemux is much simpler to use than Cinelerra, but can't do quite as much. This one is in the repos, but Cinelerra you will have to download.

[luckyd]

I vote for KDEnlive

[DjBones]

theres a great newer one out now, i haven't had much time to mess around in it.. but check out Jahshaka, who says a movie editor can't look sexy? haha

[Amazona aestiva]

I think Kino because it is so stable.

[hikaricore]

theres a great newer one out now, i haven't had much time to mess around in it.. but check out Jahshaka, who says a movie editor can't look sexy? haha

Just wanted to say I do NOT suggest using their Ubuntu installer.
The installer uses aptitude commands with the "force-all" function which could cause serious problems in case of a file conflict.

For anyone interested I suggest grabbing and installing the packages manually from Jahshaka's repo, or adding it to your sources.list. Their repo has not been updated since Dapper but will work fine.

Here's the direct link: http://repo.jahshaka.org/ubuntu/dapper/binary-i386/


And the line for sources.list if you want to go that route:

deb http://repo.jahshaka.org/ubuntu/dapper/ binary-i386/

[durand]

Kino, stable? I've never managed to work with video files long enough to the output phase with kino...it seems to crash soo easily....but it does look pretty promising.

You could try Jahshaka, it's pretty cool. There used to be another one which used the gstreamer engine, I think but I can't remember it's name...I use avidemux all the time but I'm not sure its that good at the sort of video editing your after...I might be wrong. Anyway, you might as well give it a try, its prety simple to use.

[Enriquecaribe]

theres like a thousand video editors for linux,

but the best free one, i vote cinelerra

[durand]

Best is probably cinelerra, but easiest has to be kino, IMO

[Amazona aestiva]

I couldn't get any format working at render in Cinelerra... Kdenlive is much better in stable.

[beefcurry]

if you are looking for the best and EASIEST then its definately KDENLIVE

[girard]

hay... i have all of these installed, except for jahshaka... it messed up my xp after uninstalling it, so i'm trying to stay away from it even in linux.

aside from those mentioned here, i also have Pitivi (also available in synaptics), but somehow, i can't figure out how to use all these editors. the farthest I got was with avidemux. maybe i'll try to play around with them again.

right now i'm just looking for a simple and functional interface... i'm sorry, but something like windows movie maker. the closest i got was with Pitivi, but I'd still have to see.

Cinelerra is just too complicated. one thing i could not find among these apps are transitions between clips. anyone have a sample video which was created using one of these apps to showcase what they can do? i think that would lead people to actually see what they are capable of, and might lead them into the right app for their needs.

[durand]

Um, they all have transition effects if I am correct. For the most window movie maker like program, I think kino is the best, though I've never actually used windows movie maker. Kino is pretty simple to use too. You just drag and drop clips, then choose another tab, select the transition effect and there are a ton of other features too...

[kayosiii]

Cinelerra is just too complicated. one thing i could not find among these apps are transitions between clips. .

Transitions can be found in the resources window under Video Transitions - to use them you simply drag them to the point where two clips meet a little box will come up when you hit the sweet spot. Any adjustments can be made using the right click menu on the icon that appears in the gap between the two clips.

Hope that helps.