Linux video editing is PURE FUCKING TRASH

i definitely read all of this

I have literally never had this issue and I play around/ actually use all kinds of multimedia shit on Linux.

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16.10 is not a stable version of Ubuntu and LXDE has been dead for a while now. Use Xubuntu 16.04 instead, ya goober!

if he actually needs lxde or xfce he should throw his pc in the trash not expect to cut video.

I can cut 1080p no stress with kdenlive on my 8 year old rig in riced out GNOME but my two year old laptop eats shit. OP needs an actual computer.

Rewrite it in my unstable meme language with ungodly compile times

Try Flowblade if you haven't already. It's one of the more promising video editors out there.

Git gud, famalam

not an argument

There is blender, and some else good software for video editing. First of all Ubuntu is shit, OpenShot is garbage, cinelerra is too retarded, kdenlive is kshit, pitivi is same as openshot... You should use some normal GNU/Linux distribution if you really want to accomplish something, like Gentoo for example, nigger faggot.

Sure thing, faggot.

Lubuntu has none of the tracking shit found in regular Ubuntu. It even has its own special snowflake apt GUI that other flavors don't have.

Works fine for me. LXQt's panel is dildos, I'm not switching.

You have a poor attitude.

Have you considered rewriting it in Rust?

Blender is the most confusing piece of software ever created

lmao
its still shit

It's like they intentionally set out to make it worse.

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There's a chance you have defective hardware.

still not an argument

had this problem myself. if you double click the project file to open it in openshot, this happened. if you run openshot and open the project file from within openshot it doesn't crash immediately on opening the project file.

also, your memory is broken, replace it.

Ada 2012 superior tbh.

Rust is for babbys.

ubuntu has been shit for 10 years

ishygddt
I CANT POST IMAGES FROM DASHCHAN FUCKING GOOKMONKEY FIX WHAT YOU BROKE REEEEEEEEEEE

Just man up, and learn to use Blender's VSE OP. It's not THAT fucking hard to learn.

You haven't dealt with much custom software, have you user?

And if Blender's VSE is too fucking scary for you, there's Flowblade.

jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/

VLMC works quite well with damaged files, even if it is beta like you.

For a few cuts only you could even use MEncoder. It doesn't really care about errors either.

S-sauce on the vid?

Search for the artist "manyakis".

Thanks.

Is there something like pic related for that? My problem is, if I use it once a month, I forget the shortcuts.

If you're just wanting to use Blender for a Video editor, I recommend using the Velvet addons/extensions along with the Goldmine shortcuts.

You can get your work done faster with a MUCH more minimalist interface.

blendervelvets.org/
blendervelvets.org/en/velvet-goldmine/

The 'Velvet Revolver' extension is especially useful, since it provides a solution to Blender's problem with mixing videos with different frame rates.

blendervelvets.org/en/velvet-revolver/

If you don't need anything fancy (and you are praising windows movie maker, so you are not doing anything fancy by definition) you can use ffmpeg
It supports common subtitle format, so you can have them burned in the video or something
It has (too) many video and audio filters, so if you just need to crop/scale/change colors, it's easy as passing -vf ("video filters") with some arguments
Of course ffmpeg is huge so with the right combination of options you can get the same result of whatever video editor, but knowing how to do it would be the same as knowing a whole encyclopedia, given the size of required knoweledge

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It's a weird theme, but the extensions are really useful.

The extensions themselves look good but trannies are fucking terrible and I'm hesitant to use anything that involves those mentally ill faggots in any way.

Trust me, if you plan on editing videos in Blender, these extensions make it so much better. Besides, most of the pictures on the page are scenes from movies, not just trannies.

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Great way to not reply to ANYTHING anyone here has said faggot.

was to OP, meight

Sorry. Should have looked more closely.

I'm disasspointed.

That's a really great stuff. Thanks.

Not to mention the compositor...

No kidding. The world decided in the early 2000s that Apple is where it's at. Why are linux kiddies so slow?

Is that why OSX usage is down and Linux is actually increasing?

I used to be in a situation like you, but then I found the beauty of Blender's VSE. Yes the shit's archaic in terms of default key combinations, but like, it works.

I was exaggerating but last time I attempted to use Blender it seemed a bit too much "everything and the kitchen sink" and every gui element is customizable. It's pretty complex.

In reality I think I would rank Lotus Notes as more complex, it's especially overcomplex when an organization is basically using it as an email system.

Just give up

Personally, I prefer keyboard driven workflows. My only problem is that Blender's default shortcuts though are a bit obtuse; which is why I prefer the Goldmine custom shortcuts.

You can't expect user friendly design from Linux. Linux and its associated software is like Dwarf Fortress: Developed by autists, no regard for accessibility but pretty good once you make the effort to get into it.

Linux doesn't have a desktop, retard.

I agree 100%
Here is how you fix the problem,
CONGRATS you can now edit video on linux good!

How is it better than Blender VSE, faggot?

It'll shut the computer-illiterate cuck at the top of the thread up for the low, low price of $5000+

Is there anything on GNU/Linux with frame walking? I really like making precise cuts.

mpv + mpv_slicing

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because it actually works

its like u just want to throw away money
adobe cc suite is like 200$ a year now btw totally affordable for small businesses (the real userbase of adobe stuff)

what the fuck

Blender works perfectly.

Had a good giggle.

So... you wasted all that time installing Ubuntu when you could've just installed Gentoo and been on your merry way?

Is there anything wrong with basically just wanting windows movie maker but on gnu/linux?

fixed

Declining white population and an explosion in third world populations reaching the computer age, who cannot afford Apple.

How fucking poor are you? He said he was running a small business, if that depends on video editing software, then $200 isn't very much at all. His company probably spends more annually on coffee.

It's not about money, it's just fucking stupid to use software that you don't actually own.
Even good old shareware is much saner than that.

It's more cost effective if you're planning on upgrading the software in a year or two anyways. Look at the impact the renting model has had on server hosting. Hardly anyone buys their own hardware anymore, there's clear advantages for there for the buyer and seller, in most cases.

FFMPEG works fine for me.

One thing that worries me is that somewhere down the road you won't be able to get hardware to build a new desktop, but I am certain my worries are just that: worries and not actual fact.

In a not too distant future:
I'm sorry, your annual hardware allowance has been exceeded. Would you like to boost it by increasing your social-welfare score? I can book you into an intersectional feminist class this Saturday. You may choose the following lectures.

Learn how to use overlays faggot

Blender's VSE works fine if you're not stuck on a calculator. If you have older hardware, I'd try Flowblade instead.

Nice to see Blender's VSE getting more recognition. Even David Revoy has ditched Kadenlive for it.

*Kdenlive

Why not Shotcut?

Also, for ones who want to learn Blender VSE, I highly recommend these videos:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjyuVPBuorqIhlqZtoIvnAVQ3x18sNev4
All you need is just few days of watching this and practicing.

With Flowblade, you get an editor that is insanely lightweight with features that are on-par with Pitivi's while being less crash prone. It pales in comparison to BlenderVSE, but on a craptop, it can get the job done for simple projects.

I'm talking about this one shotcut.org/

I mentioned Flowblade because it's super lightweight. Is Shotcut light on resources?

Been playing around with it, and while it seems like a good alternative to Kdenlive, it seems to be missing a few features I'd miss from BlenderVSE.

I'll be keeping an eye on it though.

Yes, it's much simpler, just an alternative to lightweight editors like OpenShot, Pitivi, etc. It's being developed by the author of MLT so should be rather good.

1. install wine
2. ctrl+alt+tab / open terminal
3. winetricks dlls list
4. install and use windows movie maker

Like I said if you are a single user there is no point in paying for software u can just pirate for free unless you are a retard/mac user
but if you are a SMALL business there is NO reason not to pay for it, since it doesn't cost much + no legal trouble (200$ is nothing unless you are a basement dwelling neet tbh
32gb ddr4 is almost 200$)
adobe shit has MUCH better workflow all around.
If there was a 1-1 foss copy of aftereffects and premier that worked the same way i would use it.
there isnt though

Blender can do what you are asking for. I mean c'mon if Blender users can create

youtube.com/watch?v=HomAZcKm3Jo
youtube.com/watch?v=5ZCsUbRydBU
youtube.com/watch?v=Y-rmzh0PI3c

then there are absolutely no excuses about no free "professional" video editing and compositing software. You are just too lazy to learn new workflow. Stop using Adobe products, there is no reason to expose yourself to botnet.

I used blender once on windows to edit some video and it was shit. Slow, terrible UI, just worse in every way to Sony Vegas (but not its Magix if you want the newest iterations)

I just went with Davinci Resolve which is a really nice one and actually free for me to use but has purchasable versions aswell but I dont know if it has a Linux version.

The problem is free software is inferior to purchased stuff and most video editing software out there either isn't good or comes with alot of nonsense you have to learn that will be of no use anywhere else. Its a waste of time to learn a UI for just one piece of software when you could just be making content. If a UI isn't intuitive then it is worthless since I'm not going to waste days to figure out basic functions.

Free specialist software that is relatively demanding is just shit most the time from my experience. But then again, all I do is make dildo reviews for youtube pretty much and all I really need is basic editing capabilities and a great UI.

Or rich enough to pay for it.

You should have used proxy videos, nobody works with raw video files, always generate proxies for editing.

UI is just unintuitive to you because you are used to certain way of working with videos. There is a reason why Preimere, Vegas, Final Cut all look the same. Companies know that users are too lazy to learn new workflow so those programs work in pretty much the same way. I bet if you just sat down and played with Blender video editor for a bit you could become efficient enough for basic video editing tasks. I can edit videos way faster in Blender than in Vegas or any other similar looking video editor.

I disagree. By using something else than what everyone else uses you set yourself appart from the competition. Make quality not quantity.

There is your problem. Stop being such a faggot :-).

What are you talking about? You need to learn Adobe/Sony products as well. These are complex software demanding a lot of time to master.
Have you tried Shotcut?

I don't even have a camera that shoots raw at this time. Its just slow and cumbersome compared to other more intuitive software.

Im not going to buy a car that has non-standard inputs when I could just go with the standard one and get to driving asap.

If Im going to sit down and spend time figuring something out I would rather do that with coding than something I can do with just another peice of software.

W H E W

Sony Vegas is very intuitive though. Even when I first started using it everything just make logical sense or was easy to either figure out or look up. Davinci Resolve is similar, but I haven't used adobe software.

Nope, and I won't since Resolve does everything I need and more. Its pointless to keep looking for something when I have something that suits my mission.

You're saying this because you already know it. Blender is intuitive to me too (once you know hotkeys, and you will need to know them anyway, in any professional software).
So don't try to blame free software since you haven't even tried the most obvious choices.

But you are not free from proprietary handcufs. You do not own the software, software owns you.

I've never used blender before.
Im going to learn the VSE right now and make a webm calling you a faggot.

I've never used blender before.
Im going to learn the VSE right now and make a webm calling you a faggot.

Come to think of it I havnt used any other video editing software either

Why you goose don't moving?

I wasnt gonna bother converting my gifs into webms to use as stamps.

underrated post

Does Blender VSE allow you to use FFMPEG for exporting?

This.

I will say though, it would be nice if someone could make a small GUI to make using FFMPEG easier, just something so you can match multiple streams up easier.

What type of GUI do you need? There're simple ones like Shotcut and more advanced like Blender. Lavfi is only useful for simple/predefined stuff, it's not good for interactive editing at all.

Also,
Do you even understand what 9999 is? WTF man.

THIS

At least it's quality art.

Blender, kdenlive and shotcut are the only relevant options I found. Kdenlive is buggy as fuck though.

You just defined perfection, user.

You just defined perfection, user.

this seems nice but I can't find what kind of license velvet is on.

It jest werks

Video and Audio are both very bad.
No arguing there.

But that's still not a compelling reason for me to use windows or osx.

That's what you get for failing to install Common Sense 2017 Pro Edition

omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/oscar-winning-video-editor-goes-open-source
Was supposed to go "Open Source" 7 years ago. No thanks.

Forgive me it has been about 10 years since I checked but has any progress been made on bringing avisynth/vapoursynth over so all those scripts can be supported naively in Linux? That's the main thing holding me back from begin able to use Linux on my workstation.

All popular AS plugins were ported to VapourSynth and VS perfectly works on Linux.
I recommend you to use Gentoo if you want first-class support for VapourSynth. Only Gentoo has that amazing and fully up-to-date overlay: github.com/4re/vapoursynth-portage

You can export to AVI rawvideo and encode with any settings you want. Under the hood it uses ffmpeg IIRC, but interface is quite basic and you generally don't want to encode in editor anyway. Use the proper tool for the job.

For the record, Arch has great support for that too.

Are you forgetting who won the election, m8?

That sounds like you have got a video driver issue.
dmesg log should confirm it.

What you wanted to do could be done with ffmpeg. That's actually my go-to editor.

No, I checked it, AUR packages for VapourSynth plugins are shitty and incomplete.

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Openshot is so promising and yet you are right, it is unstable as fuck. All but Blender are unstable for some reason, and Blender is some wack obtuse bullshit but all I could recommend

Excellent OP image, terrible subject matter. I've never had any of these issues with anything but OpenShot, which is still somewhat new. What weird stuff have you done with your install?

All he wanted to do was sudo apt-get his way into an autistic ragequit and then complain here. Anyone here would have gladly helped had he just acted like a non-deranged human and posted in the sticky.

Blender's UI is whatever you make of it. As most of the posts in this thread have shown.

This. Blender's UI is the most flexible I've ever used.

ITT: everyone is too much of a faggot to into ffmpeg

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Blender's ui, and especially the keyboard shortcuts are awesome indeed, but the ui has it's flaws too.
For example, number fields are on scales from zero to one or zero to hundred, or completely arbitrary without any logic as to why.

Might be because of OpenGL specifics.

This thread is ingenius!

The only way we're ever going to get Linux ready for prime-time is to start naming and shaming brokenness. Do it in YouTube videos. Quit shilling shit, if shilling shit turned it to gold it wouldn't be shit still 10 years later. Start shaming shitty developers to either do better or just go back to gayming, poetry, or some dumbshit. Cut this shitty ass CoC and community shit, it promotes mediocrity in the name of feefees and social justice. BDFL + forks is the best way to keep cancer from metastasizing.

Every day I'm more convinced that "open source" means "runs on Linux" to normies.

And god forbid you want to do more than just split a video, slowdown and speedup will require calculating by hand because despite being a COMPUTER program there is no frontend to COMPUTE this basic function. It will cut off video at the end no matter how high fps it is unless you give it a framerange buffer of 4 black frames, good luck making a video that is intended to be a loop. How can you say this is intuitive? Especially to OP who is apparently coming from moviemaker which is literally drag, drop, and upload. Again it isnt bad software, it is unfortunately the best even, but they didn't even try to make it easy to understand, all of this could have been mitigated if they weren't trying to 'blend' potentially 30 different programs into one, it is more bloated than emacs for fucks sake and that has a webbrowser. I have to try the plugins posted in this thread sometime

Damn nigger, you lazy. It takes, maybe, three minutes to setup the UI for video editing and adjust all the defaults in Blender to work the way you want them to.

Do you have any idea how retarded it is to complain about bloat in an application made for content creation?

The extensions are great. But that site should have a NSFW warning.

Just because it can be changed doesn't make it a good UI. i3 can be customized to be exactly what you want it to be but does that mean it is as userfriendly as XFCE4?
No shit

Wasn't your first UI confusing for you until you were familiar with it? There's no One True Way(TM) for UIs. "not the way im used to reeeeeeeeeeeeee" is not an argument.

Just tried i3 for the first time. Never even used a tiling WM before.
Yes it is.

I should actually add to this, I3 was user friendly because of its convenient, easy to remember defaults, which you're right that blender doesnt have. Blenders defaults are shit.
Thing is though, its a video editing program. Its gonna be obnoxious and hard to deal with no matter what you do. I dont edit video much but every time I've tried any video editor more advanced than windows movie maker its been obnoxious and hard to pick up. When I compare figuring out the VSE in blender to figuring out any other 'good' video editor, its only a bit harder. Somewhat, but not alot.

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This is exactly why Blender and all the other video editors on Linux are shit.

Adobe Premiere Pro can accept ANY format (including stills) and export almost any format.

Shit, it'd be godlike if a linux editor had only one output, h264 in original resolution, AAC audio. But for whatever retarded reason, even that can't happen.

Ok, just have to reencode my output to the proper specs....

10 hours later ...

OOOOOOPPS! Got one fucking spec wrong! Need to spend another 10 hours reencoding!

Come on linuxfags, you got to admit that Premiere Pro is the standard for video editing and you need to step up your game.

Blender is just as buggy as everything else.

I've done things with ffmpeg no other video editor could do, so why not just build a GUI around it? What the fuck is the problem? Seriously?

Listin Reddit nigger, Blender gets the job done; and it does it with minimal crashing. I'm also not supporting one of the most jewish companies on planet earth by using it.

Is this what you believe?
Third world and poor people in general are the first to reach for a mac or an iphone. Most poor people are poor because they keep buying the most expensive shit they can afford in order to "not be poor".
Instead of buying practical, reasonably-priced tools and using your money on shit that matters.

I'm gonna need a source on that hentai

bad post

Go back to playing street football, computers still aren't for your age.

Aku No Onna Kanbu 2

Best poster on Holla Forums for 2015, 2016, 2017

Congratulations!

Yeesh, what version of GIMP would that have to have been?

Mind to show off some of your works?
Tried to use Blender a few times but it always gets me frustrated to interact with the interface.

Take my advice, start with something simple like an AMV or HMV. Doing simple shit like that is a good way of learning the basics of video editing, no matter the tool you use. As for Blender's VSE specifically, check this series out:

youtube.com/playlist?annotation_id=annotation_4173738165&feature=iv&list=PLjyuVPBuorqIhlqZtoIvnAVQ3x18sNev4&src_vid=xSGIPmQdV6M

I made a 3 minute video in Blender.
Nobody should have to go through that.

There's a reason why people buy Macs. It's not a surprise Mac sales are slowly rising while PC sales are crashing everywhere.

Nigger, bitch to somebody who cares. Blender has a steep learning curve, no shit, but once you've learned to use it, it is fuckin' amazing. And unless you're retarded, it should only take as hour or two to get past the basics.

Mac and OSX are one the decline too, actually.

on the decline*

Will do.

I did 3D modeling for fun in Blender. The video editor was unintuitive, and I spent several hours researching it before using it.

Hardware sales aren't, at least as of last quarter. Cumulatively, they're still smaller than PC sales, but that market is flooring fast while Macs are doing a little better than breaking even.

but thats exactly what his post was saying
"yes, its unintuitive, but its good once you learn it"

NONE of the powerful NLEs are intuitive; not a fucking one. And who spends hours researching an application before even trying it? You find a good tutorial, and you follow along; it's just that simple.

yeah there are. You're an idiot if it takes you long. I picked up SolidWorks almost immediately in highschool. Comparably, Blender took a lot longer, due in part to stupid shit like remapping the mouse buttons and poor one-click & drag implementation. Just recently, I had to do video work on a Mac, and whatever tool was installed there (Logic Pro?) was intuitive from the start. I was working before I realized I was working, e.g. not trying to learn the workflow.

I did try it first. It's also a problem when most people teaching Blender are spergs that take forever to get to the point. Their use cases are often shit too.

How do you even dress yourself?