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I'm looking for a program that can cut video, adjust exposure levels, color correct, stabilize and encode.
I've never done anything like this before, so ease of use would be great. But if there's an established standard program (like Gimp for photos), I'll learn it. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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[–] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago

If it works on your setup, DaVinci resolve. If not, Kdenlive. Those are the only really professional video editing programs available at the moment.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 37 points 2 years ago

I (very occasionally) use Kdenlive. I think it's pretty good.

[–] woodgen@lemm.ee 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

I used Sony Vegas/what ever it's called now for years, moving to kdenlive was pretty painless and I don't feel like I'm missing any features.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 22 points 2 years ago

You could try https://kdenlive.org/ and https://www.openshot.org/

I haven't done much editing, but they are fairly popular and decent tools. They also come as an AppImage, which means they pretty much 'just work.'

And https://handbrake.fr/ gets a mention for transcoding.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 years ago

You ever try KDENLive? It's pretty good imo

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You've probably got your answer already, but just wanting to confirm that Kdenlive can do all the things you listed.

Though the editor itself is very easy to use and obvious (if you previously have used premiere etc), you might find the UI for some of the individual effects a bit confusing. There's tool tips and sometimes help videos and stuff, but you might find yourself dragging a few sliders left and right to find out what they actually do :)

Note that generally speaking, Kdenlive doesn't currently support graphics-card-accelerated timeline preview very well, so if you're packing on the effects, you might not get real-time playback in the timeline without "preview rendering". If you ever used Premiere 20 years ago, it works the same as that.

From memory, Olive has the best "in-timeline" graphics card acceleration - but is otherwise at a much earlier stage of development.

As others have mentioned, some or all of these are also doable in Shotcut, Openshot, Olive.

Also, you might be interested in TJFree Tutorials on YouTube, which has a playlist of Kdenlive tutorials - for older versions, but it's mostly going to be the same. He also has tutorials in loads of other FOSS creative software. I found he tended to be "clear and efficient" and doesn't take 5 minutes to give you 1 minute's information.

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

I was both surprised and impressed with Kdenlive.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] kzhe@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Something I haven't seen mentioned is Blender's built in video editor.

[–] sag@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah, Blender. This piece of software never ceases to amaze me.

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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

The only one I know of is kdenlive, not sure of it can do all of that but it has always been enough for everything I needed for video editing.

[–] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

Kdenlive is preety good now

[–] art@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I've used Kdenlive for my personal projects and in a professional setting. It's easier to install than Divinci Resolve and almost as powerful.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] onelikeandidie@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Kdenlive is great, I've been editing a lot of my videos on there and some shorts on YouTube. It's got a pretty unappealing UI but one you get to know and figure out where everything is you can get some content out :)

[–] Laser@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

Nobody mentioned Olive yet, that one is very good, though I'm always concerned about the continuation of its development.

[–] FQQD@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kdenlive or Shotcut, or if you want something more powerful but not open source, Davinci resolve.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

I've found Shotcut to be more stable than Kdenlive. Tho I haven't tried the latest kdenlive yet. Both have glaxnimate support so motion graphics is possible with both.

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who kind of likes the video editing profile Blender has?

[–] Winter8593@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL Blender has video editing

[–] callyral@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago

blender is almost like the emacs of multimedia software, it's got 3d modeling and rendering, 3d animation, grease paint (2d animation), non-linear video editing, and probably other features i haven't heard of.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

I used shotcut a lot and it's fantastic.

[–] Irkiosan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

+1 kdenlive. However, I can see why it's no sufficient solution for everyone

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Kdenlive's pretty good.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Openshot for me. It's very lightweight and hassle-free.

[–] bushvin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh, how come I've never heard about this, but it looks so professional (?), at least for the website presentation.
Is it better than the common Kdenlive and Blender in your experience?

[–] bushvin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I honestly have no idea. But I discovered it a decade ago when I needed to process a short film. Haven’t touched it since.

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[–] Quackdoc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

For sure try out olive You can't do automatic stabilization but manual works fine, However I will always use gyroflow whenever possible anyways. If needed you can easily script motion tracking data from 3rd party sources.

but it is properly color managed throughout the entire editor so doing color correction works properly and accurately. the node system is really powerful despite it's early nature, and as far as I know olive is the only FOSS editor with proper OCIO integration, which means you get industry standard color management tooling including things like ACES support. You also have OTIO support for importing and exporting editorial cutting information.

[–] tiny_electron@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Pitivi is really nice

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

If you're familiar with blender, it works pretty well but renders slow

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

Kdenlive is what I used a while back when I was editing a video. You also can do it with ffmpeg from the command line if your a real chad

[–] PotatoSpoon@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pitivi I use. Like feature lacking Adobe Premiere it is.

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why talk like this do you?

[–] PotatoSpoon@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

A lot to learn you have, Padawan.

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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

If you want a very simple editor, try avidemux.

[–] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

For whatever reason, many of the editors mentioned here never worked for me ... like OpenShot, ShotCut or PiTiVi were really unstable the last time I tried (might be a distro or DE thing). Also I found it hard to cut precisely when they worked. Lightworks, Da Vinci, Cinelerra, I had a hard time getting them to run. Maybe that changed in the meantime.

I ultimately stuck with Kdenlive, which is stable enough and allows for reasonably precise cutting.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know Blender can do at least some of this on windows. I assume the same is true on linux?

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