On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 3. Tried kdenlive, hoping maybe it fixed its problems. What do you know - >> it >> crashes on my Xubuntu 12.04 when I click "Add clip". So much for kdenlive >> - even >> the stock Ubuntu version does not work, simply incredible. > > > This was the one that worked for me... But I do very little video. I have > had no problems adding clips or a series of jpgs as video (my son did a > (very) short lego animation all stop frame). I've had the best luck with kdenlive and even produced a training video for my wife's company with it (including some basic compositing and animated mouse pointers, and audio & music recorded and mixed with Ardour). I had better luck building kdenlive from scratch from SVN, using the latest ffmpeg and other libraries compiled from scratch. It was certainly more stable than the packaged version and the dev team even fixed a couple of bugs quickly that I had run into and could patch into the SVN branch. My biggest gripe about kdenlive is the reliance on KDE libraries, which makes it inherently resource hungry. If they stripped it down and just used Qt (like what happened with Rosegarden), I think it would run more smoothly and not choke on HD video. Lightworks I like a lot, I've just started using it, but has a bit of a learning curve and has some performance issues with the realtime effects (although they are working on addressing some of these issues), but for basic video editing, it's fairly stable and Lightworks has some very nice features for syncing multicamera video tracks with audio... again, a bit of work getting used to the Lightworks way of editing, but it's the only affordable commercial video NLE on Linux. Hopefully when it goes open source it will really take off. -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." -- Jelaleddin Rumi _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
