Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released 95
jrepin writes "Version 0.9.6 of free and open source video editor Kdenlive has been announced. This version adds a Reverse clip option to Clip Jobs that creates a backwards clip.The list of audio/video bitrates can now be customized in custom rendering profiles. New release also fixes several bugs and crashes, including a very annoying bug that caused project files to seem corrupted."
Re:cmdline (Score:2, Informative)
er....maybe because, oh, I don't know, it's video!
I would guess most (if not all) video editors, as in people, would like to see the video they're editing.
Oh, sure, you can argue your case for batch jobs and whatnot, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and trust that most visual video editing tools have this kind of functionality.
Re:cmdline (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, this is what kdenlive does: it is a GUI frontend for the CLI MltMelt tool (http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/MltMelt). Given, it is one command which does everything instead of multiple small commands, but there is still a separation between the program doing the work and the program providing the GUI.
Re: cmdline (Score:4, Informative)
Because this is an extremely generic use case. When editing video, most often users need to cut at a specific frame not neccesarily time. Unless the user knows that frame 4923 is the one they want before hand somehow, they need to see and playback the video. Now can it be done using a command line and a separate window? Yes. Is that more cumbersome than a graphical UI? Yes.
You'd use SMPTE format - specify the time and the frame, e.g. 00:03:56:23.
Yeah, you'd still need to preview the video to find the edit points, but as I understand it, this is essentially how it was done from about 1975-1995 or so using systems like CMX, You'd enter the list of edit points, load up the videotapes and the computer would handle the edit/assembly by itself.
Re:Hopefully it fixed a lot of bugs .... (Score:5, Informative)
You should try, because serious pro level stuff is not possible on linux yet. and I would gladly pay $500 for a linux video editor on par with even Sony Vegas 9. (They are currently at version 12)
I would love to edit under linux, but I cant because I need to edit fast and have a stable editing suite. And that is ignoring that there is nothing like After effects or Motion for linux that exists.
Re:Hopefully it fixed a lot of bugs .... (Score:4, Informative)
I love Kdenlive, and hate it sometimes too. It is by far the best editor on Linux as of now.. however the Lightworks beta is coming very soon. http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=19&id=42353&Itemid=81#42353 [lwks.com]
Openshot Kickstarter (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hopefully it fixed a lot of bugs .... (Score:5, Informative)
Running an alien OS is a lot of bother.
"Religious Purity" really has nothing to do with it.
It's the same bother for a Linux user to dinker with Windows as it is for a Windows user to dinker with Linux. At least the copy of Linux is going to be free.