Back in my teenage years I remember making music videos to my favorite songs in WMM. It didn’t require any previous knowledge about cutting or other video editing tools. It was just simple and intuitive.
Is there an equivalent for Linux that’s as easy as intuitive as WMM was? Something I could put in front of someone without previous knowlegde in editing and they could still wrap their heads around in just a few minutes?
(And please don’t say Kdenlive. Have you ever tried to add a simple effect like blur to a part of a video? It’s super cumbersome.)
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(And please don’t say Kdenlive. Have you ever tried to add a simple effect like blur to a part of a video? It’s super cumbersome.)
What is your issue with blur? As long as you understand the intuitive “everything is an effect” methodology that Kdenlive follows, blurring a portion of the screen is straightforward. Note these clips in which I had blurred the credits appearing onscreen so they do not clash with the captions I added. Add a blur effect, then a crop effect.
Woah you can crop a blur? That’s pretty neat
Yep! And you should also try blurring a cropped layer instead of cropping a blurred layer. The former is technically what I had actually done with the two GIFs above. The order in which those two effects are stacked can make a significant difference.
Openshot looks pleasing to the eye and seems easy to use but I didn’t use it myself
Shotcut is in my opinion easy to use but is more similar to davinci resolve than to WMM
I have experience with many editors from windows and macOS. After switching to Linux I had to find an alternative. I have been using kdenlive. I never needed a tutorial, always figured things out. Very impressive editor. I was able to have 1TB of footage on the time line, and able to make 1 million x speed time lapse using over 60 hours of footage on a laptop. Very impressed by this software!
Kdenlive?
For me, I found Kdenlive decently intuitive (at least in comparison to “professional” options like davinci resolve. I haven’t ever video edited much and I was able to pick up easily without watching any video tutorials). You add video and audio clips, drag them into the timeline, and use the split tool for cutting. Then you can drag the edge of clips to adjust the length, and you drag an effect from the effects menu. One effect I like to use is the “Freeze” one, so I can freeze a frame of a video for a bit. Pretty neat.
Also, on Kdenlive, you can disable most of the windows that you don’t require which is pretty neat.
