Linux Video Editing

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Welcome! This community is focused on sharing video editing tips, tricks, best practices, and software

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No trolling/grieving/being a jerk (This is subjective, but we should all be adults here)
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With all of that being said - welcome to the Linux Video Editing community! The goal here is to help each other with tips, tricks, suggestions, and advice.

In my (limited) experience, different software works better for different styles of projects. Here's my personal list of software that I use for various projects which can all be easily installed from most (all?) package managers:

Kdenlive
ShotCut
Olive

Kdenlive is fantastic for quick edits, though it can do a lot more (beyond the quick edits it is clunky imo). ShotCut can do cool things like motion tractking easily. Olive is fantastic for subtitles, but I absolutely would not recommend it for anything with audio.

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Tool for organizing and cutting off uninteresting parts (piefed.jeena.net)

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We record a lot of family videos, especially when we travel or when the children have some event, etc. Especially the travel videos are then everything my wife records on her iPhone, everything I record on my Samsung phone and the bulk of the videos are what I record with my Sony A7C. I then get everything into one directory but then all the files have different naming conventions, so it's a bit difficult to organize into a timeline. I think all of the files have their date/time baked in into the files so it theoretically should be at least possible to rename them to be able to sort them.

But then the real work starts, going through every single clip and trimming it and putting it in order into the timeline. So I wonder if there is some tool which can help with that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For simple trimming, it is really hard to beat KDEnlive. Depending on just how many clips you'll need to import and edit, it might be the tool for the whole job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is what I'm doing now, but for the current one there are around 300 clips and it takes me forever just to trim them and put them in chronological order. So I was hoping in the age of AI there might be some too which would support me doing that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know what you intend to eventually do, but just so you know, kdenlive can get really unstable with big projects like that. If your goal is to eventually edit them into one video, do it in chunks and save often.