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The Current State of Linux Video Editing

Posted by Soulskill on from the stop-motion-tux dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The VFX industry has for most of the last 30 years been reliant on Macs and Windows machines for video editing, primarily because all of the Linux-based FOSS tools have been less than great. This is a shame, because all of the best 3D and 2D tools, other than video, are entrenched in the Linux environment and perform best there. The lack of decent video editing tools on Linux prevents every VFX studio from becoming a Linux-only shop. That being said, there are some strides being made to bridge this gap. What setup do you use? What's still missing?

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  1. Blender FTW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Blender, a 3D animation suite, and a powerful video editor. Have not looked back since using Blender. Also comes with a python console, where really powerful scriptability can be reached. What else could one need?

    1. Re:Blender FTW by andyhhp · · Score: 5, Funny

      Now all I need is a 10 button mouse and an interface reference!

  2. Maybe its time for a change. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe its time to try something new, can SystemD help with this?

  3. Kdenlive by taniwha · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've found kdenlive is great - I've had to make a couple of small videos recently,it was a breeze with a couple of minor hiccups

    1. As mentioned figuring out how to do transitions was hard - they're there, just hard to figure out

    2. Ubuntu .... grrr .... their last distro has broken libraries (libav+melt - broken for lots of video editors, not just kdenlive) you can happily edit away but when you try and make the final stream, no audio -apparently all they need to do is to rebuild their binaries

  4. Article confuses "on Linux" with FOSS by KugelKurt · · Score: 5, Informative

    LightWorks is not FOSS. It works on Linux but so do Maya, Bitwig, RenderMan, and so on. Neither of those is FOSS.
    There is professional software available for Linux in this market but just like OSX and Windows you have to pay for them.

  5. Re:Not to mention Audio Editing by KugelKurt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Audacity is a simple wave editor, not a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
    Audacity's direct competition are GoldWave, Nero Wave Editor, and so on and Audacity blows them all out of the water in areas that are objectively measurable, i.e. file compatibility, encoding performance, etc.

    But comparing Audacity to a DAW is unfair. They are just different things with just some overlapping feature set – kinda like comparing a pure text editor with a word processor.