Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 16, 2007 03:34 AM
I have been griping about Video Editing software on Linux for years, basically since I made the switch from MS. Regardless, Linux-based software is all that I use, so I bite the bullet on this.
Jahshaka - too many tabs/screens, no clear vision, and where am I again? Lots of corporate sponsors but not enough understanding of what a video editor needs to do, IMHO
KDEnlive - not there yet, and it looks to be almost too simple... lets hope, though...
LiVES - not there yet, just recently resurrected i think, but no updates lately on the website
Kino - No clear vision here either, but it captures pretty well. Timeline would be a good start...
Cinelerra - kidding right? people use this, past 1995?
AVIdemux - not sure what it's meant to do but its always grouped as a video editor...
MainActor - best/most-obvious interface of them all, but not Free
MainActor has been the overall-best that I've found so far, but it is closed-source (not Free) nor is it free-of-charge (demo is free-of-charge, adds watermark to final output). Unfortunately, it crashes often for me; the best they've been able to tell me is that it might be my AMD processor (??) but I suspect my low-end motherboard. It has an OK auto-recovery unless that file gets corrupted, in which case the recovery crashes the program again. And, once you add a few effects and maybe a secondary audio track and some audio overlays, good luck getting it to stay open for long! THEN once all that headache is over and you're video is done, it still has an ugly watermark waiting for you to pay for the software. And I tested saving/opening a *.mapf (MainActor Project File) on a Windows and Linux based OS, and they cannot be read by one another. That seems insane. Worst of all, they took down their user forums, where many people would provide feedback and ask questions to make the most of the software.
I would be happy to pay for a quality program; MainActor seems to have a decent development team and they respond to personal emails (still miss the forums). For $200 or something, I'd take it in a minute if it worked for a single HOUR without a crash.
I really wish that some of the above programs would get together and combine their efforts, and be sponsored by Linspire or Cananocal or someone, to compete with a quality, easy, feature-rich application for home desktop use. With internet video only increasing, the free desktop is in danger of being unused if we cannot compete to make a video better than Microsoft's no-cost application. Jahshaka seems to think its the future of Hollywood, but it needs to be the future of my home video first...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 16, 2007 03:34 AMJahshaka - too many tabs/screens, no clear vision, and where am I again? Lots of corporate sponsors but not enough understanding of what a video editor needs to do, IMHO
KDEnlive - not there yet, and it looks to be almost too simple... lets hope, though...
LiVES - not there yet, just recently resurrected i think, but no updates lately on the website
Kino - No clear vision here either, but it captures pretty well. Timeline would be a good start...
Cinelerra - kidding right? people use this, past 1995?
AVIdemux - not sure what it's meant to do but its always grouped as a video editor...
MainActor - best/most-obvious interface of them all, but not Free
MainActor has been the overall-best that I've found so far, but it is closed-source (not Free) nor is it free-of-charge (demo is free-of-charge, adds watermark to final output). Unfortunately, it crashes often for me; the best they've been able to tell me is that it might be my AMD processor (??) but I suspect my low-end motherboard. It has an OK auto-recovery unless that file gets corrupted, in which case the recovery crashes the program again. And, once you add a few effects and maybe a secondary audio track and some audio overlays, good luck getting it to stay open for long! THEN once all that headache is over and you're video is done, it still has an ugly watermark waiting for you to pay for the software. And I tested saving/opening a *.mapf (MainActor Project File) on a Windows and Linux based OS, and they cannot be read by one another. That seems insane. Worst of all, they took down their user forums, where many people would provide feedback and ask questions to make the most of the software.
I would be happy to pay for a quality program; MainActor seems to have a decent development team and they respond to personal emails (still miss the forums). For $200 or something, I'd take it in a minute if it worked for a single HOUR without a crash.
I really wish that some of the above programs would get together and combine their efforts, and be sponsored by Linspire or Cananocal or someone, to compete with a quality, easy, feature-rich application for home desktop use. With internet video only increasing, the free desktop is in danger of being unused if we cannot compete to make a video better than Microsoft's no-cost application. Jahshaka seems to think its the future of Hollywood, but it needs to be the future of my home video first...
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