Two Linux video editors to watch
One of the reasons I haven't done almost any video editing is due to the relative lack of "mature" software for the job in Linux/Unix.
Sure there are a half-dozen projects going out there, and there is always the video-editing capability of 3D-animation app Blender (which gets a whole lot of developer attention), but when it comes to dedicated video-editing apps, there is the basic Kino and a bunch of others that don't seem ready for real, soup-to-nuts production work.
Two that are beginning to stand our are Kdenlive and the relatively new OpenShot Video Editor. (In a slightly related note, I'm interested in learning how to code in Python, which OpenShot is based on ... and I'm further interested in the QT4 toolkit, which KDE is based on ... so both of these projects are something I will be watching closely).
Since I'm starting to use digiKam, I'm inching closer to going whole hog into KDE, and Kdenlive is something also pulling me in that direction.
But OpenShot is looking very promising, and I'm eager to grab the PPA for Ubuntu and give it a go.
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Hi Steven,
Thought I'd write to express that I agree OpenShot is very interesting. I'm currently checking it out and find that some of it's features, such as
1. adding slide transitions
2. having more than one track for video/still image elements
very exciting and practical.
Admittedly (and it is still very early days) it has no effects, though the developers have written that these should be coming soon.
The interface is quite easy to navigate.
It's still a bit of an Unstable Mabel but you can see that a large amount of work is going on to get it ready for more regular use.
Unfortunately I can't use Kdenlive as it's not a happy chappy on Kubuntu 8.04 (I like LTS :)). Dan Dennedy of Kino fame is involved in Kdenlive so I expect it will also be very good.