Comments on: 7 Free Open Source Video Editors For Linux

By: Calvin Mitchell

Calvin Mitchell — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:29:29 +0000

I want to publish my music as Flash videos on YouTube. I want to show in the movie about 2 staffs of the sheet music while playing the audio…can anyone tell me the best software to use? Apparently I’ll have to convert the video to Flash as well.

By: phaoloo

phaoloo — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:10:26 +0000

Really nice list. I’ve tried Kino and it is really useful and handy.

By: Clemens

Clemens — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:27:46 +0000

KDEnlive is the best for Video Podcast (in addition to DeVeDe and recordMyDesktop)

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:03:20 +0000

That is new to me. On first glance, it seems functionality similar to LiVES.

By: Brylie

Brylie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:08:47 +0000

Don’t forget FreeJ. It’s more of a Video Jockey application:
http://freej.org/

FreeJ is also created by the dyne::bolic team, an excellent GNU/Linux distro for multimedia enthusiasts:
http://dynebolic.org/

Viva Rastasoft!

By: tuxhelper

tuxhelper — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:04:57 +0000

I remember when I tried to make a video.. What a waste of time in Gnu/Linux land! I finally figured out howto make a single pic with audio video via ffmpeg. But, I guess if your looking to make a full featured film maybe one of these apps may or may not do the trick.

ffmpeg -loop_input -t 420 -i YourFile.jpg -i final.mp3 -y -f flv -r 1 -s 320×240 YourFile.flv

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:38:15 +0000

Check out the Bad Apples podcast for details on using Blender for video editing.

http://www.thebadapples.info/

Klaatu does an excellent job explaining this and other topics. Plus he is a professional video developer.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:30:22 +0000

When I looked at video editors, I was most concerned with the support for Ogg video format. I found LiVES was most focused on supporting Ogg technology, while the others considered it a supplementary feature.

In my opinion, FFmpeg is an embarrassment, in so much that so much of the popular linux multimedia framework is built around this non-free software. The reason the software is “unknown to many” is because no one wants to discuss this black sheep.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:13:38 +0000

As far as I know, Blender is really meant for creating 3D content. It might be a bit too excessive for a simple video editing.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:09:34 +0000

Yes. You are right. Nevertheless, we should be able to see jahshaka 3.0 in the near future, and I am sure it will be even better than the current one.

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:31:00 +0000

I believe Jahshaka had some issues with corporate sponsorship trying to steer the application in an unwanted direction, so they have broken that partnership off and are trying to release the next version… at some point. It is still in development though.

KDEnlive is my favorite however.

By: Raditha Dissanayake

Raditha Dissanayake — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:13:05 +0000

Cinellera and and Lives are not the easiest to get the hang of. I have used Jashanka on my Mac and found it prone to crashes. Avidemux is the one that I use it’s simple and easy to use (unless you want to append one movie to another then you start hating it)

By: PhillC

PhillC — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:21:12 +0000

There’s a few more to consider:

Open Movie Editor – http://www.openmovieeditor.org/

Blender (has a very good video sequence editor) – http://www.blender.org/

By: John Hammond

John Hammond — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:58:31 +0000

PiTiVi looks promising: http://www.pitivi.org

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:08:41 +0000

You are welcome