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Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released
jrepin writes "Version 0.9.6 of free and open source video editor Kdenlive has been announced. This version adds a Reverse clip option to Clip Jobs that creates a backwards clip.The list of audio/video bitrates can now be customized in custom rendering profiles. New release also fixes several bugs and crashes, including a very annoying bug that caused project files to seem corrupted."
Actually, this is what kdenlive does: it is a GUI frontend for the CLI MltMelt tool (http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/MltMelt). Given, it is one command which does everything instead of multiple small commands, but there is still a separation between the program doing the work and the program providing the GUI.
It's pretty much the best open source video editor out there. It has the right mix of ease of use and functionality - they just need to work on the flakiness. Every now and then when I have need to do video editing, I've looked at the alternatives, and Kdenlive - crashes and all - is the only thing that ever actually does the job.
The commercial Windows based editors may well work a lot better, but I'll never know, because I'll never use any of them.
Advanced users are users too!
And in other news, LiVES 2.0.2 was released yesterday.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421164014/openshot-video-editor-for-windows-mac-and-linux - Contribute generously and spread the word pls. A good video editor has been long due on Linux!