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What is the best alternative to OpenShot Video Editor?
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Olive Video Editor
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Scale / move elements directly on viewer
This video editor has the ability to move things in the visual space straight in the viewer panel compared to the others where you need to change some value of x or y to scale or move things in your composition. This might not matter much in many cases but if you have a lot of elements moving or scaling throughout your scene, this is the fastest and a much more intuitive method than having to adjust the scale/position values of individual axes separately. This again is a big reason why I prefer an alpha (a damn good alpha) version of this software than a stable release of Kdenlive.
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Still in alpha / No stable release yet
Not exactly going to be a long term con. The official website clearly states the same, which is why this piece of software should not be used for important projects. Then again it is so damn good that Olive editor is right now my primary editor for most projects. The fact that there is NO stable version of this software does bother a bit as it's ability to handle complex projects is almost unpredictable. But all said and done, it's still not crashed on me even once. Even though an alpha, the best damn alpha release ever.
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Blazing fast preview
GPU preview means a lot and I honestly cannot understand how other video editors do not have this as the default choice. Incredibly fast previews tested even on low end machines. This is the sole deal breaker for me when it comes to editing clips.
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License:
GPL-3.0
Supported platforms:
Windows linux mac
Computer Specifications:
Almost anything
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Davinci Resolve
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Not open source
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Presets for other software
If you like the way that Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere Pro function, there are built in templates that change the program layout and functionality to match those pieces of software. Even better, you are prompted weather you want to use these on startup so there is no digging through menus to find this feature.
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Not traditionally an editing software
While the built in editor is great, the software is mostly focused on color correction.
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Clean and modern UI
The interface is clean and modern. Providing a nice smooth experience.
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Lacks features
It functions flawlessly as a basic editor, but when you try to get into anything beyond titles, fades, and basic animations, you will likely find the toolset lacking.
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Stellar color correcting
The color correcting tools resolve provides are quite powerful
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It can take a bit of time to get used to
Because it is traditionally a color correcting software, getting to the actual editing toolset is a tiny bit difficult.
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Stable and supported
The software is actively developed on, and is incredibly stable
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Has a free version which is only lacking a few features
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Cinelerra-GG Infinity
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Fast
Compositing and previewing 1080p video works at a full 60 frames per second on moderate hardware.
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Create Clips From Source Files
Allows users to create clips of a specified portion of a source file from the preview window.
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Powerful Effects
Take the BlueBannana effect for example, it alone can both color correct, color shift, color mask (think chroma key), and give live statistics on the current frame.
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Supported platforms:
Linux
Max resolution:
7680x4320
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Flowblade
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Powerful and light-weight
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Linux-only small user base
If you have a friend/machine running anything other than Linux, it won't work. So you cannot transfer knowledge as easily and this also results in a rather small user base so also fewer tutorials and online support.
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Multifunctionality
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Lack of advanced editing features
Doesn't support stabilization or complex transitions for example.
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Free and open source
Flowblade is licensed under GPLv3 with source code available on GitHub.
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Requires higher display resolution
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Stable
Has an interface similar to OpenShot and PiTiVi but doesn't crash when previewing videos or after few render.
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GPU rendering is unstable
A fair amount of hardware and driver combinations crash the software.
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Platforms:
Linux
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Pitivi
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Free and open source
Pitivi uses CreativeCommons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with source code available on Gnome's source code page.
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Encoding and decoding is not hardware-accelerated
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
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GTK based
Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.
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No way to modify the speed of a clip
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
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Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg
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Lacks proxy editing
The feature is planned, but not yet implemented.
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Blender
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Free and open source
Blender is licensed under the GPL. Some Blender modules such as the Cycles rendering engine are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Too many possibilities, no unified workflow
The operations are not optimized enough for specific tasks.
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Wide import and export format support
Support lots of modern 3D formats including DAE and FBX - ideal for game developers.
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The physics engine is a bit lagging behind, especially the destruction physics
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Has a powerful rendering engine
Blender runs the Cycles path tracing engine under the hood. Cycles is a very powerful rendering engine capable of full path tracing (light fall off, caustics, volumetrics). It is mostly compatible with OpenCL and CUDA rendering, and is implementing mycropolygon displacement features. The upcoming release has a viewport engine called EEVEE whereby you can see and interact with your work in render mode in real time!
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Difficult learning curve
Blender has a history of being unintuitive, but the 2.8 overhaul made the program far easier for beginners to pick up, and changes continue to be made to further improve the experience. However, there is still a learning curve.
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Python extensibility
Blender embeds Python 3, which can be used to write add-ons, tools, extend the interface, rig characters and automate tasks.
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Not good for Industrial Design because it uses average vertex normals
You can not create a hard surface with a radius continuity degree along a surface using a specific radius value.
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Powerful animation suite
Blender provides a full rigging system, and automates animation by interpolating between keyframe positions.
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Vertex normal issues on edges after boolean operations.
After creating a simple boolean operation the vertex normals are broken. A lot of work to fix the issue and you loos surface continuity.
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Supports both low-poly and hi-poly modeling
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Bad vertex normal after boolean operations
Does not handle well polygon intersections. And need tweaking by hand points or adding average vertex normals via modifiers.
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Regular release schedule
Releases are made every ~3 months.
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Does not handle NURBs
Is not capable of real hard surface for industrial design because is not able to reproduce surface continuity degree as a NURBs does and average vertex normal destroy surface radius.
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Sculpting and 3D painting features
Although Blender's 3d painting and sculpting tools (mostly painting) are not at par with specialized software like Substance Painter, ZBrush, or Mari, it is more than capable of getting most jobs done if the user takes the time to learn and understand it.
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Poor particle system
The Blender particle system can at times be a little limiting and finicky (and buggy) to get working. Even if it can get most straight forward jobs done, it is far from the most advanced system, and could benefit largely from advancements.
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Includes video editing & compositing tools
Blender's node-based compositor has comprehensive video sequencing and post-processing features.
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Node based modeling support
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Keyboard shortcuts
Good keyboard shortcuts for everything. Keep your left hand on the keyboard and your right hand on the mouse.
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Very useful for a freelancer
It offers a round solution (it covers many areas and professional fields) for a freelancer, for free, constantly updated, very polished, and allowing high quality results that clients do require. After some learning, it becomes very useful for professional work.
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Has a large community
There's a huge community to help you get started immediately.
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Coherent and streamlined workflow / internal use logic
The trick with Blender is to get used to its usage philosophy, as it keeps consistent through all the application. Once you get it, every feature or addition is learnt naturally, almost effortlessly.
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Very versatile
You don't have to switch between software when you want to do different things. Because modeling, sculpting, composting, video editing etc can all be done in blender.
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Generative geometry using nodes
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD
Technology:
C, Python
3D:
Yes
2D:
Yes (as of 2.8)
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KDENlive
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Open Source
Kdenlive is licensed under GPLv2, and built on top of other open source projects like FFmpeg.
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It's laggy and freezes, with some chance of crashing
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Works great as an audio editor
Audio is edited in the same way as video, which makes it one of the best audio editors.
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Timeline cursor is not working
Timeline cursor is not working well on Kubuntu, very difficult to use it. You have to switch all the time between project monitor and clip monitor to get it work.
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Surpisingly complete
Although this editor is not up with the top of the professional pack of editors, it certainly packs a powerful punch, and should provide enough features for amateur montages, ranging from alpha manipulation, to multiple audio and video live track editing.
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Dose not work well in Windows
They do not support windows well like other distribution. You will face a lot of problems.
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Its great for learn the basics of video-editing
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No hardware acceleration
If you don't have a CPU that's good for video encoding, the render time can be quite bad.
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Subtitles included
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Does not have good distribution channel
You have to go to their website to get newest version, does not auto update via package manager.
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Doesn't support multi frame-rate video editing
When you choose the mixed frame rate option, your video with 60 fps will be broken (slow down and trimmed). (This con might be just misunderstanding of how to do video editing and production from the user who typed in).
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Lightworks
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Hollywood approved
Lightworks has been used to edit movies such as Wolf of Wall Street, 28 Days Later, Pulp Fiction, The King's Speech and many, many others.
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Free version is limited to 720p output
Whereas the full version can export to a wide variety of formats and resolutions, Lightworks can only export H.264 / MPEG-4 up to 720p.
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Highly polished editing workflow
Lightworks is very focused on just the editing workflow. It's full of functionality that eases the workflow. For example, media manager can be used to storyboard, "mark and park" can be used in timelines, cut points can be adjusted in 3 ways (end point of a clip without adjusting the start point of a clip that comes before it, start point of a clip without adjusting the endpoint of a clip that comes after it or start and end points of 2 joined clips at the same time) without shortcuts, just intuitively placed mouse hover points around the cut point. Such attention to detail is what makes it an efficient tool for editing.
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Doesn't support multi-frame rate videos
Unlike the other video editor, this one doesn't support multi-frame rate video.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
Import image formats:
DVCPRO HD
Export video formats:
Uncompressed SD 8 bit and 10 bit
Import audio formats:
DVCPRO 50
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Wondershare Filmora
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Multiple video tracks not supported
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Doesn't support selected media length
It cannot view media length.
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Doesn't load resource when project is loaded
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Preview freeze on splitting clip
You cannot preview after split clip.
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Transition not customizable
You cannot customize transition such as duration.
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