Dear Lazy Web (this is a from a friend and I know next to nothing about video editing software):
“Is there a good free video editor, on par with GIMP, that has a decently gradual learning curve, and works well?”
December 4, 2008
Good Free Software Video Editor
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I haven’t tried Cinelerra, but I’ve heard good things about it.
For a quick video editor (nowhere near on par with the Gimp), I like Avidemux
Happy hacking,
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Comment by Noah — December 4, 2008 @ 9:18 pm
depends on your definition of “video editor on par with Git”, but you can try out kdenlive (0.7 for KDE4, previous versions are too buggy for my taste)
http://www.kdenlive.org
Comment by Sylvain — December 5, 2008 @ 12:26 am
Maybe kdenlive (http://www.kdenlive.org/) is what you are searching for?
another alternative: online webediting:
http://corp.kaltura.com/
Comment by stefon — December 5, 2008 @ 1:39 am
One of the best Free Software Video Editor is kdenlive:
http://www.kdenlive.org
Unfortunately, it isn’t available *yet* on Debian.
I expect someone will package it soon or I’ll do it myself as I have added his build-depends on Debian (mlt/mlt++/KDE4).
Comment by fabo — December 5, 2008 @ 2:25 am
Hello !
You should give Cinelerra a try. ( http://cvs.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php#apt ). Yes, I know the learning curve is said steep, but I found myself using it in less than 2 hours without much hassle.
By “using it”, I mean cutting the video, adding audio track, syncing music.
A good tutorial is very helpful:
http://www.robfisher.net/video/cinelerra1.html
Benoit
Comment by Benoit — December 5, 2008 @ 2:53 am
Thanks everyone!
Comment by Biella — December 5, 2008 @ 4:20 am
I’ve been using Kino with decent success; it has almost no learning curve, and the documentation was actually good for what I needed to do (just divide a long segment into clips, nothing too fancy). I tried Cinelerra, but could never get it to actually start up.
These three articles were a huge help as I was researching this:
http://www.linux.com/feature/131342
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software#Free_.2F_Open_Source_Software
http://grandtextauto.org/2008/11/23/free-software-for-video-scholars/
Good luck!
Comment by Karl Fogel — December 5, 2008 @ 6:16 am
I’ll put in my suggestion of kdenlive (0.7+) again. It is really great, and I’ve tried Kino, the previous version of kdenlive, cinlerra, and others before.
Comment by Andrew Stromme — December 5, 2008 @ 7:54 am
i tried several and ended up using blender. Its unusal for video editing but if you’re a bit familar with blender you might like it.
Comment by Florian — December 5, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
I only used it for some basic video editing, but Kino worked great. It had little learning curve (beyond the idea of how it works).
I’m not sure about more advanced stuff, but it seemed rather powerful.
Also did a terrific job of easy exporting to DVD and file.
Comment by Daniel — December 5, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
I agree with Florian. The Blender VSE (video sequence editor) is pretty stable and serious. Big Buck Bunny and Elephant’s Dream were both edited with the VSE. The learning curve is a touch challenging but I think for features and stability on Linux its the best option.
If simplicity is you main concern then Kino is probably the best tool.
Comment by Ean Schuessler — December 6, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
Kdenlive (formerly Kino) is probably you want. Cinelerra is excellent and is a lot of things. But it’s not simple and straight forward.
Comment by Benjamin Mako Hill — December 6, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
+1 from blender, you will need to constantly read the docs as the gui is not intuitive when u start out.
kdenlive is great but in my experience in ubuntu 8.04 not stable.
Comment by eatmee — December 8, 2008 @ 8:03 pm