Video Editor

This documentation covers non-linear video editors available for Trisquel. Depending on your needs, you have different options.

Kino

Kino is a non-linear editor for Digital Video data. Kino allows you to record, create, edit, and play movies recorded with DV camcorders. This program uses many keyboard commands for fast navigating and editing inside the movie.

The kino-timfx, kino-dvtitler and kinoplus sets of plugins, formerly distributed as separate packages, are now provided with Kino.

For a list of features see https://kinodv.org/article/static/2.html

Kdenlive

Kdenlive is a popular non-linear video editing suite, which supports DV, HDV and many more formats.

Its main features are:

• Guides and marker for organizing timelines
• Copy and paste support for clips, effects and transitions
• Real time changes
• FireWire and Video4Linux capture
• Screen grabbing
• Exporting to any by FFMPEG supported format

For a list of features, see https://kdenlive.org/en/features/

LiVES

LiVES, a Video Editing system allowing users to edit and create video. LiVES is a Video Editing system allowing both novice and advanced users to edit and create video straight away. It can also be used as a VJ tool, and can be scripted and controlled remotely.

For a list of features, see http://lives-video.com/index.php?do=features

OpenShot

OpenShot lets you create and edit videos and movies.

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source, non-linear video editor. It can create and edit videos and movies using many popular video, audio, and image formats. Create videos for YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Metacafe, iPod, Xbox, and many more common formats!

Features include:

• Multiple tracks (layers)
• Compositing, image overlays, and watermarks
• Support for image sequences (rotoscoping)
• Key-frame animation
• Video and audio effects (chroma-key)
• Transitions (lumas and masks)
• 3D animation (titles and physics simulations)
• Chroma key (green screen & blue screen)
• Transcode (convert video encodings)
• Upload videos (YouTube and Vimeo supported)

For a list of features, see https://www.openshot.org/features/

Pitivi

Pitivi is a is a free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community. Pitivi is also a non-linear audio/video editor using GStreamer.

GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins.

Others

Olive

Olive is still in alpha and should be considered a prototype only. The software, provided by Trisquel, are aimed to demonstrate the progress that has been made so far, and should not be used for any serious work at this time. However Olive is available in the official Trisquel Repositories for those who are interested.

Further Reading

There is a thread in the Trisquel Forum, with a list of video editors including reviews from our member Ignacio.Agullo plus some extra informations about the free software avidemux. See https://trisquel.info/en/forum/video-editors-available-gnulinux-trisquel

Revisions

07/15/2024 - 15:26

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