cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/32192355
Just found out about this guy on YouTube named Nuxttux because I’ve been trying to make some social media videos.
Kdenlive is a completely different beast than the one that I remember using a couple of years ago. It has so much functionality in it, like all the “TikTok effects”, proxy clips, rendering previews, visualizing effect curves between keyframes… like damn. This is actually legit software now for my basic needs.
The thing is, it seems like these were all added in the past 2 years, because I had 23.x installed through the Debian repo and I upgraded through Flatpak to 24.12 and it seems to have added all of these?
Anyway holy shit. Go give these guys some money. This is game changing
Thanks for sharing the channel, I checked one of those tutorials (I can’t watch more rn) and it’s very well made, putting the end result right at the start, bringing up special considerations like watching for lighting changes or cloud movements in background footage.
By the way, what kind of “TikTok effects” are you talking about? Dynamic transitions and shaky-cam effects, or other things too?
I think they’re referring to the how to make a tiktok style edit tutorial video on the Youtube he linked. It’s pretty good, ngl, although i’d much rather than fade out, overlay the alternative clips by a few frames, then fade out and in usinc either cubic out/cubic in, or a combination of exponential and cubic. Gives it a more seamless transition imo.
Kdenlive has always been good for me, but I prefer shotcut. It seems simpler for the smaller edits I do
Does not not constantly crash anymore? That’s the only feature I want. I don’t do a lot of video editing but for the every-now-and-then scenario I have it always crashes at least once…
They wanted people switching over from big name software to feel right at home
Davinic is paid but its a one time fee and pretty solid on linux, no issues transitioning for the modst part, some reactor plugins are incompatible like shaderotoys
DaVinci Resolve also has a free version that’s a fully-featured editor with nothing locked behind a paywall, the benefit from buying the paid version is you get an actual upgrade in functionality over the already-pretty-powerful free version.
However it’s still a proprietary app so if that bothers you, then KdenLive seems like a good FOSS alternative to that.
It has plenty of nodes locked behind a paywall like magic mask, they also recentlly locked reactor, the community made plugins, behind a paywall (I still think its worth it, especially if you buy hardware for editing, the studio license comes with it)
I thought for sure the free version of DR was still a fully-featured suite and didn’t paywall anything ala Adobe, and what you got with the paid version was an actual upgrade over an already pretty powerful app.
Not since 19 for dctl, reactor (which added hella of the festures free missed for free through an open source addon library) etc. got paywalled, 20 adds ai magicmask and subtitles also paywalled, like free is going to slowly lose features while not gaining new ones it seems
That sucks, how long before DR goes full Adobe and starts moving to a subscription model? And how long before Blackmagic paywalls some features on their cine cams like Canon started doing on their still cams?
I see a price increase more likely in the future, maybe to boost sales by announcing it in advance
