Videos from the tracks

[Rainmak3r]

Hi!

@Rainmak3r

Sorry haven't had a lot of spare time to watch all of the videos, I liked Out of the Void so far though!

No need to apologise! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch even just one, as time is our most precious resource. I'm glad you enjoyed Out of the Void! It's the last one I worked on, using Shotcut, and it came out pretty quickly after I found the videos I decided I'd use.

For any who may be interested here's a video comparing the various FOSS NLE's:
https://youtu.be/edQIda8pwxY

I 100% disagree with his assessment of Cinelerra-GG, It's the only NLE I use and it is very stable and has never held me back from doing what I wanted but there are a lot of good points about all the FOSS NLE's in this Video.

Thanks for sharing that! I haven't watched the whole video, but it's nice to see he puts Shotcut quite on top, means I chose well

I don't understand his thoughts on the weak points of Openshot, though: he says the keyframe/effects part is confusing, which I actually found to be very easy to use and incredibly intuitive to a complete beginner, and one of the key reasons why I insisted on it despite the poor performance (until I really couldn't take it any longer). It made it very easy to do this work-related video tutorial, for instance, with zooms, panning, etc. on what I had captured. Unfortunately, the poor performance and frequent lack of audio/video syncing eventually led me to a different solution. I guess that, exactly as you with Cinelarra, video editors really are very much a subjective experience.

[Gps]

Few remarks from my site.

What I have done does take allot of time, mostly because I have to learn allot about blender.

There are how ever easier to do vids, with blender, were even if you don't know blender you should have a loop vid in about 5 hours, by just following some tutorials, I can recommend Ducky 3D.

Another more simple way is to have a static image (land scape) with a spectrum analyser in front of it.

I like to learn blender, but I do have previous experience with software like blender, and have used in my profession, 3D cad programs. ( Autocad and Catia to name two )

So for me its fun to learn Blender. ( estimated render time of my current vid though over 12 hours)
I am having issues to get sheep it to work. There is a Linux version but I can't get it to work yet.
( sheep it is a free render farm )

[Gps]

Those came out nice. You're inspiring me to try a bit harder with my videos. I only make them because it seems like people won't listen to a song unless there's a video.

Thanks! It's partly the reason why I started doing it too, even though it's mostly because I did the fun 80s video for "Call of the 80s" and found out super-amateurish video editing could be fun too

Same motivation here.

[Basslint]

I pretty much abandoned Openshot for Shotcut, now, and I got a much nicer experience so I think I'll stick with it. I'm an XFCE user which is GTK-based, so kdenlive would force me to get a bunch of KDE dependencies I'd rather avoid. Unless there are reasons to try it anyway?

I understand the point about dependencies but KDE has gotten more modular over the years (I even switched from LxQt to KDE Plasma due to its light footprint and I had been criticizing KDE for maybe a decade before that!) and has a bunch of programs which are IMHO the best available on GNU/Linux in their respective categories (Kdenlive and Krita). Avoiding KDE would mean missing out on those great programs

Should you try it? I think the current alternatives to Kdenlive are already quite good for most use cases, so unless you are looking for a "long term investment", something that is near professional level and will only get better with time, you don't need to try it.