Video Editing in Linux

Eliot Rosewater

Hello all! I want to do a bit of video editing on my Ubuntu 9.04 install, and I'm wondering does anyone have any good recommendations for software. I suppose a key requirement is that there are good tutorials on line: I don't have much experience with video editing besides Microsoft (*shudder*) Movie Maker.

My first project will involve only images, and I need the ability to be able to position these on the frame, and then move about and resize etc. Is this a standard feature?


I heard good things about kdenlive on the Irish Linux User Group's mailing list, so I installed it, but I can't say I'm impressed. Simple transitions, such as fade to black, don't always work, and the output quality of titling is pretty poor. Perhaps it's because I'm using GNOME. - never mind, my bad.

Cheers!

ntlbell

kino is suppose to be decent

I haven't used it personally

BopNiblets

I've only used Avidemux, it's more of an encoder and file cutter, but it works great.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Eliot Rosewater

Cheers for the suggestions!

From what I gather, kdenlive doesn't include the ability to change to coordinates and dimensions of still images, which is the main component of the video I'm trying to make. On a kdenlive support forum Cinelerra was given as an alternative, so I'll try that first.

Rockn

Openshot is my favourite for basic video editing.

PiTiVi is another one. It the default video editor in 10.04 and looks similar to windows movie maker.

Grudaire

I'm a fan of OpenShot as well, and it's a handy install for Ubuntu, should be in the Software Manager...

Khannie

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

Cinelerra was given as an alternative, so I'll try that first.

Very powerful, but requires a bit of reading.

Eliot Rosewater

I downloaded Cinelerra: it has an interface that looks like something out of a Hannibal Lector film, and it's basically not working smoothly at all.

I downloaded Kino too, but from my quick look at it it looks a little too simple for my needs.

I'll give Open Shot a twirl now!

Eliot Rosewater

Khannie wrote: »

Very powerful, but requires a bit of reading.

I'd imagine so. I was just putting images on the timeline, as per the beginners guide, but it wasn't letting my resize them or move them around easily or anything. If I can't find anything else I'll return to it probably.

pickarooney

It took me about a day to make a simple 2-minute film with Cinelerra, but I reckon if you were doing a lot of that stuff it would be well worth lerning. It was buck-ugly last time I used it, which didn't help.