Agreed. Have always wondered how (and why) some UA-cam creators who teach/advise others on video editing ends up creating weak/sub-par "Video Editing Tutorials". Maybe this anarchist actually works in the field? 🙂
Couple of caveats to what you said: 1. DaVinci does work on Linux, as long as you are on the Debian or Fedora systems. The free version only injests prores 422 footage, so if you are primarily working H264 and/or H265 then you'd have to try with the paid for full version. I cannot tell if those issues go away with having the full version so don't quote me on that. 2. As for me, I am currently editing a full length feature on DaVinci on my laptop running Ubuntu Studio 21.04. I chose studio variant of Ubuntu so that all the minutae around low-latency kernals and graphic drivers are sorted out of the box, and I could go straight into editing. Which I have. 3. The footage I am working with is 10bit mxf footage shot in 4K using a Sony FS7. I had to transcode the footage to dnxhd 720p proxies, and - knock on wood - the process has been painless. 4. For people who are considering taking their primarily content creation workflows into Linux, my advice would be to start with Ubuntu Studio. A lot of your headaches that might come from vanilla Ubuntu in terms of the correct kernel for recording audio and appropriate drivers for Nvidia GPUs (mine is running a Nvidia 1050ti on a Intel i7 8750H system with 32GB RAM) 5. It is still not for the faint of heart. I was confident enough to move my workflow - even for this commerical feature length film I am working on - to Linux because I spent a couple of the pandemic years just deep diving into Linux and the eccentricities of its eco-system, and general system maangement. Two years of that experience is what made me go 'I can do this on Linux' 6. For 3D work Blender is great, comes preinstalled on Ubuntu Studio 7. For audio enthusiasts, there is a fuck ton of DAWs and music production goodies that I can only guess at preinstalled with Ubuntu Studio. So far I've found a synth and guitar amp modeler that has given me hours of fun. 8. In terms of hardware, this laptop (an XPS from 2018) is currently connected to a USB C dock that is providing power, and extends functionality to 3 more screens and tons of USB and SD card connectivity; also with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 as my USB Audio Interface, and a mechanical keyboard with RGB lighting. All working flawlessly, and all Plug and Play setup, yes even the Focusrite. TL;DR: If you are interested in any sort of content creation workloads on Linux, Ubuntu Studio + FFMPEG + DaVinci Resolve + Ardour + Surprisingly plug and play hardware compatabiliity = you are set. PS: Almost forgot, Ubuntu Studio comes preinstalled with WinFF which is basically a gui for FFMPEG. Typing FFMPEG commands on the terminal can sometimes be frustrating because of the sheer number of options and flags that are provided. Winff reduces that friction: simply choose the file you want to convert, the format you want to convert it in, any other options, and press convert. It will output the exact ffmpeg command that you need to input into the terminal. If your terminal is running zsh shell or any that has autocomplete or grep into history, those commands are now there for whenever you need it. As you can tell, I am a big fan of the Ubuntu Studio team. They are doing some great work.
I haven't worked with Ardour, but my all-time favourite DAW is Reaper and they have had a dedicated Linux build for years now. They are a mature, fully-professional DAW for a surprisingly affordable price. If I only had to do audio, I would've switched years ago.
H264 and/or H265 this works with full version on linux, Studio Only (GPU accelerated on Nvidia graphics) Source: SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_18_Supported_Codec_List.pdf
The fact that DaVinci Resolve supports Linux is what finally got me to fully switch. Even though I've used it for video editing for a couple of years now and absolutely love it, I still admit even Resolve's not at the point I'd recommend most people to use it on Linux (compared to other OSes). The lack of AAC support is a big issue, in my opinion, and while it's easy to just run a bash script to convert everything, it still adds a bit of overhead to editing which can get annoying. While I don't use 10-bit video, I could see how those could be dealbreakers for some. I also cannot use Resolve on Linux on my laptop, even though it works fine on WIndows on my laptop (this is due to Resolve's lack of support of Intel GPUs on Linux, something I didn't realize until I was out of the house needing to edit a video). Also, for some reason my Studio version license key doesn't work on 17, but I can install 16, register, then upgrade for it to work, even though I didn't have to deal with that when I briefly switched to Windows? Okay, that was a lot, and it kind of makes it seems like Resolve on Linux isn't good. I actually think it's incredible, and it's by far my preferred system for editing. I think I have the same attitude towards troubleshooting as you do, seeing it as a chance to learn and improve my Linux skills. However, for many, these small issues may pile up and create a somewhat frustrating experience.
Davinci runs on Linux because it's a professional software used in almost all movies and tv shows because all the big vfx studios use Linux on their computers hence all the professional vfx software runs on Linux. Maya, Blender, Houdini, Nuke, Fusion, Mari, Katana, Clarisse etc.
@@koton_bads I tried that--at least for my 11th gen Intel laptop, Resolve opens but if I drag in any video or image it hangs and never displays the video or image.
in my experience, even on windows, resolve doesn't handle aac well (mp4 container). i always had to export as .mov with 24-bit linear pcm to get a decent output.
Man, you need to keeps posting videos on your channel, they are awesome! I don't mind to wait weeks or months for a new video, but you need to know that there are people who love your videos.
i always recommend davinci resolve to everyone independently of your OS. premiere is amazing but not everyone can afford the Adobe price. plus, resolve is like a mix of imovie, premiere, after effects, and audition all in one program so you can literally base your entire workflow on resolve. it really is a great product, and its shocking that it's free, and is one of the most powerful editing softwares out there.
As a mostly solo producer, I use almost only Blender. It will do pretty much everything, but comes at the cost of a steep learning curve. For me, its worth it because it allows me to do literally anything.
Both entertaining and useful! As a veteran video editor and long time FLOSS Linux fan in the process of escaping the Apple prison for my music and media production, I think you've addressed all the general concerns thoroughly. Personally, I am moving to DaVinci Resolve as my primary transition tool. I think Black Magic's inclusion of Linux versions, capable FREE releases, and their strong customer support all show them to be a trustworthy, ethical community citizen. (Full disclosure though... I also have a bias here... I worked for the post house that created the original DaVinci color correction interface hardware and software that Black Magic licensed, then has improved upon and made accessible to a global audience).
I do like the fact that linux and its software is getting so much better with Video and Multimedia. Nowadays things are working with Linux that I have not dreamt of in the past. There is still a lot of space for improvement but hell yeah it is great, and I can keep my beloved FOSS Apps too!
Ultra-high end pc user here (7900XTX,7800x3D,128GB DDR5), Resolve does NOT work on any linux distro properly its filled with issues across all distros.
Bro I aspire to your video editing quality. As a VTuber who uses Linux for everything but my video editing and vtubing im so thankful for this! I can cut out one more thing from windows! Now I just need to find a way to get live2d or VTube studio to work on Linux. Your channel is awesome! New subscriber for sure!
Im so glad to see your story from the beginning, just like @Nikephor said: you came out of nowhere with top notch quality content. and i cant agree more
When it comes to vfx, pretty much all big vfx studios are running linux and specifically centos and later rocky which is why pro vfx software and post production software such as resolve, nuke, maya, houdini are all available on linux but for video editing, it's a bit hit or miss unless you are using a specific distro.
I first got into Linux around 2010. I was getting into making YTP. I tried video editors here and there because forums kept saying these free and open video editors are just sooo good. They were so damn picky, they wouldn't just crash, they'd crash the entire system. Linux video editing has come a long way since then. Seems like a good result of h.264 becoming a big standard and everything flocking to support it. Even then, video editing in Linux is still awful. It would help a ton is the visual design of Linux software would leave the bubbly windows XP ear and join the modern worls.
Switched to Fedora 36 and I love it, but Davinci Resolve doesn't really 'support' it and nothing online answers all my questions. For one, all the guides/help online are usually several months out-of-date and no longer relevant. I can't find a single answer about whether installing AMD Pro drivers replaces the open source ones. Will installing opencl for Davinci Resolve break everything? I don't know. I have tried alternatives and they all just suck for my workflow. I'm not going to change OS just to get 1 program working since it'll break everything else.
In 2007 I edited a skate video with a very very early build of Kdenlive because I had no other choice ( ua-cam.com/video/hUVBcEWIrZk/v-deo.html ). It worked but I had to save after every single little change because of how frequently it crashed. Video editing was the sole reason that I kept a Mac around for so many years. Glad to see Linux video editing being discussed more, because it's always been a bit of a struggle.
Kdenlive crashes way too much. When I made my video a few weeks ago I couldn't even have the project open for more than a few seconds because it would sometimes crash when I did something. This was especially frustrating because I had almost finished the video before it started doing that. It's worth noting that I _was_ running it under Windows because I still have to use Windows for college, but it's still frustrating that Kdenlive even has this issue at all.
I have had little to no success with Resolve on Linux Mint, before DR 17, it ran with no problem out of the box with the linux package, but they must have felt a certain way about that and made sure it never worked again unless you are on their preferred distro. I use Kdenlive, but the audio tools are lacking and cannot go lower than a certain DB level, which makes background audio too loud for music as most songs are cranked.
i wish i could use davinci resolve on linux but the big problem is that they don't even support hevc or h265 codecs in the regualr free version, only the paid studio version which is like 300 dollars
I have tried editing video on Linux off and on and it is awful. The only free and open source option that is stable and works is Blender but it is just too complicated for video. If the Blender foundation would put more focus on video editing rather than a scrap here and there they would be the de-facto free/open source option on every OS but for now it is just not set up for video editing. I think I'll give DaVinci resolve as it will work on my mac and my Linux machines. I need to find out if one license will work for two systems running different OSs(mac and Linux) that would make the transition easier on my wallet. I would drop mac and be 100% linux if audio issues were fixed and video editing was better but as it stands now it just doesn't work for me. My mac does video editing and my Linux machines do everything else.
I don't have (haven't had) many crashes with Kdenlive just yet, but IMHO, it is buggy... For example, the version in the Fedora repo displays blank Composition and Effects tab, the AppImage version comes with broken text rendering by missing letters and icons in many UI elements, and finally, the Flathub version is much slower than the other two. With a GTX 1080, I can export at only 15-20 fps (28min for an 8:30min project) using the Flathub version, while the AppImage version can go over 60 fps (under 7min for the same project). There must be a reason for it, but I don't bother... I just edit using the Flathub version and export using the AppImage one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you saved me a few hours seen some people doing it though... Back to win10 when there is a distro that allow us to produce effectively... I MIGHT give this another shot
Alright, you roped me in with Unix Porn, now you're touching a subject I care about very deeply. Someday Avid will wake up and make the client software for Linux and not just the server software. (it really does drive me bonkers that their current system model is Linux servers with your choice of MacOS or Windows clients. "But I want my choice of Linux client.") I keep meaning to see what the current state of Media Composer on wine or proton is like. Otherwise I might look into dual-booting Linux and MacOS 12 to drop Windows 11. Oh yeah, and Adobe. They really need to come back to Linux. I want Acrobat Pro Linux again, that was awesome back in the day. And I'd love for them to release a native Photoshop. I've never liked GIMP's whole we'll do just about everything Photoshop can but completely different. Also that was a sly insertion of "Arch BTW"
I don't know why so many need such specialized tools for PDF's. Print to PDF from a LibreOffice document works well and to read PDF's, okular is the best program I've used, better even than Adobe's own reader on Windows was. Especially since it scales the page to the viewport instead of the other way around, so if a document has a double wide page it doesn't screw up the view for every other page. That one I encounter on a nearly daily basis when reading the local paper. As for GIMP, you can customize the entire interface and make it work more or less just like Photoshop, but I prefer customizing it to work the way I expect it to instead. I've been working on customizing all the shortcuts so I can use one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse to draw much faster. Less ctrl+key and more of just key, but if I need more ctrl, left side is better and I've got shift and alt to use as well for extra layers of shortcuts.
@@anon_y_mousse Acrobat Pro is less about viewing and printing. Okular is fine for that and I've been using it for years. Also the viewing nuances you've mentioned with Acrobat Reader have long since been fixed. It displays double up books no problem, with all of the same viewing options Okular has, if not more. I think 15+ years of FOSS competition has made Adobe react. Anyway, my desire for Acrobat Pro is entirely for PDF editing and authoring. Although less so on the authoring front, since Print to PDF is probably 95% of PDF authoring these days. More so editing with all the current abilities and features PDF has to offer. Okular can probably technically do most of the editing functions I want; with the difference being Acrobat Pro intuitively did it correctly, probably in one step, and Okular did it weird, possibly with some flaw, and potentially using multiple functions to attempt to mimic one of Acrobat Pro's. The biggest being Acrobat Pro's Forms & Fields tool is light years more advanced than anything FOSS has to offer (As of 2019) I also don't know if any FOSS PDF editor can properly SSL Digitally Sign a PDF yet. There is also of course the entirely opinionated reason, that serves no functional argument. I simply think the Acrobat Pro UI looks better. Acrobat Pro feels like a commercial product, while Okular and other FOSS feel like a University student's school project (and likely started out that way). And there's nothing wrong with University student projects, I use them all the time, but why settle for the Volkswagen when you can have the Audi. As for GIMP, when you say, "you can customize the entire interface and make it work more or less just like Photoshop", do you mean I can set all the keyboard shortcuts to Photoshop's? Or do you mean I can actually change the fundamentals of GIMP's toolset to match Photoshop's? If it's just the keyboard shortcuts, then I don't really care. While I should probably know a decent number of Photoshop shortcuts, My brain seems to only retain the Avid Media Composer ones. Also that wouldn't "fix" GIMP's functionality. Now if you can actually change the fundamentals of the GIMP toolset to match the Photoshop toolset, then that is something I need to do. My biggest complaint about GIMP, and always has been since v1, is why the **** are we reinventing the wheel? Why did you take a multi-tool that was logically paired, and break it up into 5 annoying tools? Why are you decreasing productivity? Photoshop 0.63 from 1988 has better, more intuitive functionality than GIMP current from today.
@@nikdog419 Interesting take on okular's interface. I prefer the simple and out of my way interface, but to each their own. I don't ever have a need to edit an existing PDF, and I don't know why anyone would. It's supposed to be a static format and was originally mostly just for printing due to document consistency. So I'd be curious to know how and why you need editing. As to GIMP, I'm not sure what you mean by fundamentals of its toolset. If you mean move the buttons around and menu entries and all that, then yes, that is part of what I meant, along with the shortcuts being customizable. Last I checked its interface was written in a LISP variant and could be completely rejiggered. Though I haven't checked in a while as I've not needed to change anything in it, but since it's open source it wouldn't matter because you could either modify it yourself or find someone who wanted the same functionality and patched it themself.
@@anon_y_mousse Actually now that you've inadvertently made me think about it more than I would probably think about it on my own, I've realised the Okular UI and the Acrobat Pro UI are pretty much the same. Acrobat Pro just has more tools on it's toolbar, and is colour coded. I don't actually need the colour coding, but that in addition to it's bubbly UI gives me the illusion of it being prettier. I will commonly get PDF forums authored by someone less computer literate than me without fillable form fields. Usually because it's just a Word document Printed to PDF or a form Scanned to PDF. The layman would think they have to print it out and fill it out by hand. Enter the Acrobat Pro Forms & Fields tool. With one click I can auto populate the entire PDF with fillable fields, 95% of the time without corrections. It even understands sectioned fields like, "Zip Code: |_|_|_|_|_|", and will either populate accordingly or at minimum put individual but functional fields there. Most of the time it even sets the field's metadata name correctly, ie First Name, Last Name, Address, etc. I still have to manually place checkboxes and ratios, if there are any, but that's really easy to do. While there are other ways to fill out PDF forms without re-authoring the PDF, I find this method to be extremely simple and fast. It also has the added benefit, I can now share the re-authored PDF. I've had that come up at work where the original author was amazed I was able to do that and asked me for my version so they could redistribute it with the requirement, typed not hand printed. The last time I attempted to do the same in Okular, which admittedly would probably be as long ago as 2018/19, I spent 2 hours struggling to eventually, I think, figure out how to manually place fields. Which I ended up deeming too time consuming for the size of the document, rebooting into windblows, and being done with it in 15min. I also need to digitally sign PDFs, though very rarely. Okular may support this and I don't even know it. Acrobat Pro obviously supports whatever the official PDF digital signature format is. I think it uses SSL certificates. I know the verification system is similar to that of PGP/GPG, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what is powering the backend. It's sounds like I need to re-explore the customisation abilities of GIMP. To me the GIMP toolset and the Photoshop toolset are 2 wildly different things. You can accomplish the same things with both, but how you get there is completely different. Right off the bat, the Photoshop toolset is graphics program standard. Like the MacPaint toolset is the Photoshop toolset is the MS Paint toolset is the Paint.net toolset is the Kid Pix toolset is the toolset, etc. The GIMP toolset feels like an attempt to reinvent the wheel. Which I vaguely recall being apart of the GIMP mission statement. Something along the line of we're not trying to make a replacement for Photoshop, we're trying to make a whole new graphics program. It was also originally intended just for simple image manipulation and conversion. Giving it it's name, GNU Image Manipulation Program. It's just grown into a larger project with time. What you can do with the Photoshop path selection tool, is split up amongst 3 to 5 tools in GIMP. Admittedly path selection tool is a terrible name since it does so much more. You can select paths, you can select objects, you can select text, you can move selections, you can scale selections, you can rotate selections, and probably more I'm not thinking of or know of; all without switching tools. What I do with 3 of Photoshop's tools, takes something ridiculous like 7 to 10 of GIMP's tools; All stacked on top of each other, always searching for the correct tool for what I'm trying to do, while thinking, "Man, Adobe sure has this streamlined. I guess that's why they're still the industry standard."
@@nikdog419 I've not had the displeasure of dealing with too many PDF forms, so I have no idea if okular still has the same behavior on that front. However, it sounds like it might be a good idea to suggest that to the developers. As for Photoshop, I've not used it so I'm not sure what you mean here. If it just chains tools together to operate on selections and/or layers, then that could be done in GIMP, but it would likely require either finding a plugin or writing the code yourself. So your average user likely won't be able to do it. If it's already built-in, I've never used such a feature. I'll have to look into this one more.
"rendering times will be ridiculously long" shows 2 minute rendering time. Dude my first video editing system, 20 years ago, took half a day to render 15 minutes of 480x320 video.
I tried creating a simple music video with a still image and audio track using Olive 0.2 on Ubuntu. It was totally worthless. I couldn't find any Linux based video editing applications that worked.
There is no post-production suite for AV-content out there that can compete with davinci resolve in my opinion. I've been working a lot with it (i am a media production student) and absolutely adore this software. Frankly I think it is insane what blackmagicdesign gives you - and all of that for free - unless you want some advanced features, 4K export and gpu-rendering. That it runs natively on linux makes it even better. I kind of can't believe this software exists in our late stage capitalist world. Sadly I am still dependent on adobe, so.... yeah. I'm stuck with Windows 10 at the moment :(
I personally won't use Davinci Resolve due to apparently requiring proprietary drivers and needing a dongle (I hate proprietary dongles) if you use premium. I already heavily use cropped video layers and don't really need advanced color grading. Davinci is just too bloated for what I do.
I keep seeing people use package managers enough times that I wonder how difficult it would be to set up one package manager on a completely different system. Like using AUR on a Debian based system or apt on Arch. If you're looking for video suggestions, take that and run as far as you can with it. I use Slackware and other than SBO, which I'm not even sure I would refer to as package management, I have none. Sure, slackpkg and installpkg exist as commands, and there is a format that they expect, and sure I can deb2tgz and rpm2tgz some stuff, but not everything will work that way and I generally just avoid it to build from source. If I could use AUR, that would be cool.
@Jordan Rodrigues True, and I can't even use either on my system, but I'd love to see one universal package manager so that every distribution would start to converge. Although, I'd also like to see dependencies resolved in a better way. It's no good to have 4 different versions of one library because 4 different programs all require it but none agree on which version. Don't even get me started on the lack of planning for the future for some library devs that mean constantly shifting API's, which causes a lot of these problems too.
Software as a commodity is the same fake something, as "love for sale" or "friendship for many", that is it's a fake commodity. People's time - like developing or supporting their software - is to be payed, but not the algorithm itself (and it was that way in the early times, before inventing "proprietary software").
Coming from Premiere Pro, every single editor I've tried is close to unusable. DaVinci is really difficult to get up running (whereas Premiere work(ed) on any machine). Lightworks was promising (ultra nice performance) but UX for keyframe-animations is quite poor. KdenLive, Pitivi, and the other 10 editors I've tried but failed to be usable are ... well... unusable. Most tools lack (good) effects and a proper UX for using them. But that's just my opinion.
I've used Premier Elements and would like to try Premier Pro, but just can't justify the subscription fee which I'd have to pay year after year. I edit videos for our family - not doing it as paid professional.
@@jackb1803 Totally with you! Exactly the same here. If you're not professional, the price is not in an affordable range. I hope Adobe does something here. Or better: The open source community creates a Premiere Pro clone. (If anyone wants to team up, I'm happy to join in!)
Stability and no crashes with Adobe software? HA! That would be the dream 🤣 (He said, as he tried to figure out why After Effects is giving render errors in the final result)
Linux is simply not for creative production environments and that's it. Deal breaker? For tooooo long. People have tried but is very frustrating that is not just: INSTALL>WORK>DELIVER!
btw that's how I think it will be in future: the top will be always the Apple(I don't worry to say my main pc is and always be a Mac Mini) side by side with an iPad, second will be GNU with fully solved the problems due an upgrade of the kernel Linux and the possibility of having Nvidia firmware open suorce...Microsoft Windows is getting more and more distant from this use, it lacks of many softwares natively plus isn't even Unix based. so in the end of the edge Gnu-Linux will be just a folk's choice but not the pro. People used Windows because was quite cheap, with making Office 365 so expencive they will loose many market share. My Mac could be expencive but at least is fully usable, nowdays I cannot use Windows without seeing stupid flags "you are freemium" and this why ther're loosing ground. I also can't stand the bloating and the fake news, I wanna see what I wanna see so I'm using only Unix based right now. I also want to know what happening, both Mac and Fedora is allowing me this. I also wanted a second pc cheap for speed dayli jobs and just digging on the web, I wanted a cheap and light no more bigger than 13inch laptop with microsd or sd reader built in. I wanted the best combo, that's why Windows is loosing ground. I'm not Windows hater, my mom loves and I get used to use it too seldom andI love it, but it lost many of its purpose...in the future 90% of Microsoft's exclusive will be no more exclusive and they are selling their softwares too much expencive. I'm seeing many of "Microsoft is the past" red lights...Gnu-Linux is not perfect nor the community is(mostly of them are just toxic) but at least is understanding the market share. Apple too but is looking alike they are getting more and more focusing in pro people, that's ok and Gnu-Linux will always supply the not pro people. Windows is good for what in the end?! Gamers and office...ok but people cannot living doing gaming and gaming is quickly moving in Gnu-Linux too. For office here is the big deal, Microsoft is rock here and probably the only target will be always on Microsoft and that's ok. But for home pc Windows is loosing ground and isn't ideology, I think is ok having choices, but bad decisions. You cannot even edit a document no more, is getting useless and useless...surely I'm in love with Github and VS Code but I don't find anymore why use a Windows as daily pc. That's it. We will have Apple, it has still the cool stuffs it has 30 years ago but Windows to me just looks in the end of its life at least managed like that. Is no more comfortable, no more exclusive...is died.
kdenlive still has some problems & they're all a glorified windows movie maker lol (much better though) Nothing beats Adobe products (when you actually buy them and get the updates)
I tried it and too many of the shortcuts and lack of ease to activate snapping would scare anyone who doesn't already use Blender to edit 3D away. It has insane VFX potential though.
@@vit.c.195 yes. I tried to use Blender as a video editor and would have had to take a good hour or two either learning the keyboard shortcuts or changing them to fit my preferences. I could not figure out how to get tracks to snap and documentation just kept pointing to the 3D editor, not the video editor. It can work, but it will not be out of the box for people in its current state.
@ponysmasher (David Sandberg, who made Shazam and a bunch of Horror movies) uses blender pretty extensively, and I think he's used some of its video editing features too. His youtube channel has some great tutorials ua-cam.com/users/sandberganimationvideos. I am curious as to how far you could get using Blender exclusively as a video editor.
@@AshnSilvercorp interesting. Blender was the first free software video editor I've ever used, and while it took some getting used to, but I only do small scale projects with it.
Great video! I run a video production company and use exclusively Linux. I also have one of my contractors running it and it's been great. We edit in DaVinci Resolve Studio and we use GIMP, Krita, Blender, Handbrake and others. We also edit off a SAMBA share on a NAS. The pipeline is in order and works great for us.
How's your render time on Resolve studio Linux? GPU accelerated?. I'm currently using Windows with Nvidia GPU and my render speed is about 250fps (1080p)
This is some valuable information for everyone. I'm not a professional editor by any means, so far the basics have been covering me well in Linux. Hope that this changes in the future for professional who want something more serious out of the software.
The issue I have with Davinci Resolve is it doesn't open MP4s or most MPEG codecs. It's rough, I would need to buy the studio version otherwise, which I won't need for now. It's unfortunate but I'll have to bear with KDEnlive for now.
Great video! I've been using Davinci Resolve on linux since 2019. But prior to this year, I was already using it on MACOSX. It works fine on linux. I do have to convert my mp4 files to either mov or mxf before I can import it. The version of Davinci Resolve for linux does not support h264/mp4. My flow is a waste of time since I have to re-encode back it to mp4 when I'm about to upload it to youtube. I remember uploading a valid .mov file to youtube but it never generated a 4K version. It only created 1080p. Maybe I should try again to make sure what I am sharing is reproducible. If it works, I will be able to save tons of time since I don't have to re-encode it back to mp4 with ffmpeg.
there is also cinelerra-ng which uses ffmpeg as the media codec library and is a decent Linux only non-linear editor. [P.S. it fixes nearly all your woes in this video check its feature set and be amazed!] Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!
In this video ay 4:00. you literally have the render option window open in Kdenlive showing the 4 gpu rendering options, while you say Kdenlive does not support HW rendering? Aloso Kdenlive can handle 10 bit video since April, but the effects are still 8-bit!
All I want and ask for si a Video Titler that can create Animated Titles instantly or several apps: Like LiveType was for Mac or SCALA Infochannel for super instant Video Presentations with Text and animated titles and transitions. I HATE having to Render Titles. It is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. SCALA did them on the fly in realtime...it was just normal. It was similar to what Powerpoint does. I want a Video Editor that can create Presentations and then export that Presentation as a Video File (again..Powerpoint does this now and for the past few years). WHy cant a Video Editor do this. FotoMagico on the Mac comes to mind too. Soooo Simple! We do Have PhotoFilmStrip on Linux but its basic.
*Nice, good points, we need also some great Kdenlive tutorials, we're waiting for you and others to share, I can hardly find any good advanced professional tutorials about Kdenlive , not everything should be done on proprietary software, many tricks , transitions , effects, can be done on Kdenlive, with some knowledge, experience and a brilliant artistic mind*
This guy came out of nowhere with top notch quality content. What the hell.
I know right
I will soon be making content like this too. When I move out of my parents house.
@@naskue4187 looking forward to it
No doubt sub right away.
Agreed. Have always wondered how (and why) some UA-cam creators who teach/advise others on video editing ends up creating weak/sub-par "Video Editing Tutorials". Maybe this anarchist actually works in the field? 🙂
Couple of caveats to what you said:
1. DaVinci does work on Linux, as long as you are on the Debian or Fedora systems. The free version only injests prores 422 footage, so if you are primarily working H264 and/or H265 then you'd have to try with the paid for full version. I cannot tell if those issues go away with having the full version so don't quote me on that.
2. As for me, I am currently editing a full length feature on DaVinci on my laptop running Ubuntu Studio 21.04. I chose studio variant of Ubuntu so that all the minutae around low-latency kernals and graphic drivers are sorted out of the box, and I could go straight into editing. Which I have.
3. The footage I am working with is 10bit mxf footage shot in 4K using a Sony FS7. I had to transcode the footage to dnxhd 720p proxies, and - knock on wood - the process has been painless.
4. For people who are considering taking their primarily content creation workflows into Linux, my advice would be to start with Ubuntu Studio. A lot of your headaches that might come from vanilla Ubuntu in terms of the correct kernel for recording audio and appropriate drivers for Nvidia GPUs (mine is running a Nvidia 1050ti on a Intel i7 8750H system with 32GB RAM)
5. It is still not for the faint of heart. I was confident enough to move my workflow - even for this commerical feature length film I am working on - to Linux because I spent a couple of the pandemic years just deep diving into Linux and the eccentricities of its eco-system, and general system maangement. Two years of that experience is what made me go 'I can do this on Linux'
6. For 3D work Blender is great, comes preinstalled on Ubuntu Studio
7. For audio enthusiasts, there is a fuck ton of DAWs and music production goodies that I can only guess at preinstalled with Ubuntu Studio. So far I've found a synth and guitar amp modeler that has given me hours of fun.
8. In terms of hardware, this laptop (an XPS from 2018) is currently connected to a USB C dock that is providing power, and extends functionality to 3 more screens and tons of USB and SD card connectivity; also with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 as my USB Audio Interface, and a mechanical keyboard with RGB lighting. All working flawlessly, and all Plug and Play setup, yes even the Focusrite.
TL;DR: If you are interested in any sort of content creation workloads on Linux, Ubuntu Studio + FFMPEG + DaVinci Resolve + Ardour + Surprisingly plug and play hardware compatabiliity = you are set.
PS: Almost forgot, Ubuntu Studio comes preinstalled with WinFF which is basically a gui for FFMPEG. Typing FFMPEG commands on the terminal can sometimes be frustrating because of the sheer number of options and flags that are provided. Winff reduces that friction: simply choose the file you want to convert, the format you want to convert it in, any other options, and press convert. It will output the exact ffmpeg command that you need to input into the terminal. If your terminal is running zsh shell or any that has autocomplete or grep into history, those commands are now there for whenever you need it.
As you can tell, I am a big fan of the Ubuntu Studio team. They are doing some great work.
What's the movie going to be about, genre, story what have you? Is it live action, CGI or a mixture of both? Who's in it?
I haven't worked with Ardour, but my all-time favourite DAW is Reaper and they have had a dedicated Linux build for years now. They are a mature, fully-professional DAW for a surprisingly affordable price. If I only had to do audio, I would've switched years ago.
oh hey @theena, good to see you
DaVinci Resolve works even on Arch Linux!
H264 and/or H265 this works with full version on linux, Studio Only (GPU accelerated
on Nvidia graphics) Source: SupportNotes/DaVinci_Resolve_18_Supported_Codec_List.pdf
The fact that DaVinci Resolve supports Linux is what finally got me to fully switch. Even though I've used it for video editing for a couple of years now and absolutely love it, I still admit even Resolve's not at the point I'd recommend most people to use it on Linux (compared to other OSes). The lack of AAC support is a big issue, in my opinion, and while it's easy to just run a bash script to convert everything, it still adds a bit of overhead to editing which can get annoying. While I don't use 10-bit video, I could see how those could be dealbreakers for some. I also cannot use Resolve on Linux on my laptop, even though it works fine on WIndows on my laptop (this is due to Resolve's lack of support of Intel GPUs on Linux, something I didn't realize until I was out of the house needing to edit a video). Also, for some reason my Studio version license key doesn't work on 17, but I can install 16, register, then upgrade for it to work, even though I didn't have to deal with that when I briefly switched to Windows?
Okay, that was a lot, and it kind of makes it seems like Resolve on Linux isn't good. I actually think it's incredible, and it's by far my preferred system for editing. I think I have the same attitude towards troubleshooting as you do, seeing it as a chance to learn and improve my Linux skills. However, for many, these small issues may pile up and create a somewhat frustrating experience.
Davinci runs on Linux because it's a professional software used in almost all movies and tv shows because all the big vfx studios use Linux on their computers hence all the professional vfx software runs on Linux. Maya, Blender, Houdini, Nuke, Fusion, Mari, Katana, Clarisse etc.
You can use resolve with an intel gpu if you install their opencl drivers
@@koton_bads I tried that--at least for my 11th gen Intel laptop, Resolve opens but if I drag in any video or image it hangs and never displays the video or image.
in my experience, even on windows, resolve doesn't handle aac well (mp4 container). i always had to export as .mov with 24-bit linear pcm to get a decent output.
Resolve has space to improve but it does works
I can already tell that this video is going to be a masterpiece.
Man, you need to keeps posting videos on your channel, they are awesome!
I don't mind to wait weeks or months for a new video, but you need to know that there are people who love your videos.
i always recommend davinci resolve to everyone independently of your OS. premiere is amazing but not everyone can afford the Adobe price. plus, resolve is like a mix of imovie, premiere, after effects, and audition all in one program so you can literally base your entire workflow on resolve. it really is a great product, and its shocking that it's free, and is one of the most powerful editing softwares out there.
As a mostly solo producer, I use almost only Blender. It will do pretty much everything, but comes at the cost of a steep learning curve. For me, its worth it because it allows me to do literally anything.
I feel like I'm witnessing the rise of something big
Linux or video editing on Linux ?
@@proctoscopefilms The channel growing
as am I
Both entertaining and useful! As a veteran video editor and long time FLOSS Linux fan in the process of escaping the Apple prison for my music and media production, I think you've addressed all the general concerns thoroughly. Personally, I am moving to DaVinci Resolve as my primary transition tool. I think Black Magic's inclusion of Linux versions, capable FREE releases, and their strong customer support all show them to be a trustworthy, ethical community citizen. (Full disclosure though... I also have a bias here... I worked for the post house that created the original DaVinci color correction interface hardware and software that Black Magic licensed, then has improved upon and made accessible to a global audience).
is this video made with linux???
03:37 I salute the precise phrasing. One does not just "use Arch". One "uses Arch BTW".
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You will have our full support if you keep making work of art such as this, especially on linux!
I do like the fact that linux and its software is getting so much better with Video and Multimedia. Nowadays things are working with Linux that I have not dreamt of in the past. There is still a lot of space for improvement but hell yeah it is great, and I can keep my beloved FOSS Apps too!
Davinci resolve just works. *For Ultra High end pc.*
Ultra-high end pc user here (7900XTX,7800x3D,128GB DDR5), Resolve does NOT work on any linux distro properly its filled with issues across all distros.
On Linux, it's becoming a default, like Adobe Premiere pro
This channel is bound to be bigger than all the current channels on linux, mark my words
Bro I aspire to your video editing quality. As a VTuber who uses Linux for everything but my video editing and vtubing im so thankful for this! I can cut out one more thing from windows! Now I just need to find a way to get live2d or VTube studio to work on Linux. Your channel is awesome! New subscriber for sure!
nice, I watched all of your videos through recommendations on the right side. This means I have to subscribe!
Im so glad to see your story from the beginning, just like @Nikephor said: you came out of nowhere with top notch quality content. and i cant agree more
When it comes to vfx, pretty much all big vfx studios are running linux and specifically centos and later rocky which is why pro vfx software and post production software such as resolve, nuke, maya, houdini are all available on linux but for video editing, it's a bit hit or miss unless you are using a specific distro.
great production skills and content, I love it, keep the good work up.
I first got into Linux around 2010. I was getting into making YTP. I tried video editors here and there because forums kept saying these free and open video editors are just sooo good. They were so damn picky, they wouldn't just crash, they'd crash the entire system. Linux video editing has come a long way since then. Seems like a good result of h.264 becoming a big standard and everything flocking to support it. Even then, video editing in Linux is still awful. It would help a ton is the visual design of Linux software would leave the bubbly windows XP ear and join the modern worls.
Switched to Fedora 36 and I love it, but Davinci Resolve doesn't really 'support' it and nothing online answers all my questions. For one, all the guides/help online are usually several months out-of-date and no longer relevant. I can't find a single answer about whether installing AMD Pro drivers replaces the open source ones. Will installing opencl for Davinci Resolve break everything? I don't know. I have tried alternatives and they all just suck for my workflow. I'm not going to change OS just to get 1 program working since it'll break everything else.
In 2007 I edited a skate video with a very very early build of Kdenlive because I had no other choice ( ua-cam.com/video/hUVBcEWIrZk/v-deo.html ). It worked but I had to save after every single little change because of how frequently it crashed. Video editing was the sole reason that I kept a Mac around for so many years. Glad to see Linux video editing being discussed more, because it's always been a bit of a struggle.
In 2023, I currently use Kdenlive version 22.08.3, and I find it more stable than most other editors on my 8 year old laptop.
If you hadn't overlooked Blender as a serious alternative then I would have subscribed to your channel.
Lets go, this video gonna be poggers
Kdenlive crashes way too much. When I made my video a few weeks ago I couldn't even have the project open for more than a few seconds because it would sometimes crash when I did something. This was especially frustrating because I had almost finished the video before it started doing that.
It's worth noting that I _was_ running it under Windows because I still have to use Windows for college, but it's still frustrating that Kdenlive even has this issue at all.
i don't use Linux, i know close to nothing about it, but here i am, you're videos are great
I have had little to no success with Resolve on Linux Mint, before DR 17, it ran with no problem out of the box with the linux package, but they must have felt a certain way about that and made sure it never worked again unless you are on their preferred distro. I use Kdenlive, but the audio tools are lacking and cannot go lower than a certain DB level, which makes background audio too loud for music as most songs are cranked.
daVinci Resolve does not run on Linux..though EVERYONE is trying to do so-
i wish i could use davinci resolve on linux but the big problem is that they don't even support hevc or h265 codecs in the regualr free version, only the paid studio version which is like 300 dollars
Davinci resolve not working on ~90% Linux distributions and Kdenlive not working with apple heic by default....
I have tried editing video on Linux off and on and it is awful. The only free and open source option that is stable and works is Blender but it is just too complicated for video. If the Blender foundation would put more focus on video editing rather than a scrap here and there they would be the de-facto free/open source option on every OS but for now it is just not set up for video editing. I think I'll give DaVinci resolve as it will work on my mac and my Linux machines. I need to find out if one license will work for two systems running different OSs(mac and Linux) that would make the transition easier on my wallet. I would drop mac and be 100% linux if audio issues were fixed and video editing was better but as it stands now it just doesn't work for me. My mac does video editing and my Linux machines do everything else.
I don't have (haven't had) many crashes with Kdenlive just yet, but IMHO, it is buggy... For example, the version in the Fedora repo displays blank Composition and Effects tab, the AppImage version comes with broken text rendering by missing letters and icons in many UI elements, and finally, the Flathub version is much slower than the other two. With a GTX 1080, I can export at only 15-20 fps (28min for an 8:30min project) using the Flathub version, while the AppImage version can go over 60 fps (under 7min for the same project).
There must be a reason for it, but I don't bother... I just edit using the Flathub version and export using the AppImage one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I tried to indtall davinvi on ubuntu, but it didn't work
you saved me a few hours
seen some people doing it though...
Back to win10
when there is a distro that allow us to produce effectively... I MIGHT give this another shot
Alright, you roped me in with Unix Porn, now you're touching a subject I care about very deeply.
Someday Avid will wake up and make the client software for Linux and not just the server software. (it really does drive me bonkers that their current system model is Linux servers with your choice of MacOS or Windows clients. "But I want my choice of Linux client.") I keep meaning to see what the current state of Media Composer on wine or proton is like. Otherwise I might look into dual-booting Linux and MacOS 12 to drop Windows 11. Oh yeah, and Adobe. They really need to come back to Linux. I want Acrobat Pro Linux again, that was awesome back in the day. And I'd love for them to release a native Photoshop. I've never liked GIMP's whole we'll do just about everything Photoshop can but completely different.
Also that was a sly insertion of "Arch BTW"
I don't know why so many need such specialized tools for PDF's. Print to PDF from a LibreOffice document works well and to read PDF's, okular is the best program I've used, better even than Adobe's own reader on Windows was. Especially since it scales the page to the viewport instead of the other way around, so if a document has a double wide page it doesn't screw up the view for every other page. That one I encounter on a nearly daily basis when reading the local paper. As for GIMP, you can customize the entire interface and make it work more or less just like Photoshop, but I prefer customizing it to work the way I expect it to instead. I've been working on customizing all the shortcuts so I can use one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse to draw much faster. Less ctrl+key and more of just key, but if I need more ctrl, left side is better and I've got shift and alt to use as well for extra layers of shortcuts.
@@anon_y_mousse Acrobat Pro is less about viewing and printing. Okular is fine for that and I've been using it for years. Also the viewing nuances you've mentioned with Acrobat Reader have long since been fixed. It displays double up books no problem, with all of the same viewing options Okular has, if not more. I think 15+ years of FOSS competition has made Adobe react. Anyway, my desire for Acrobat Pro is entirely for PDF editing and authoring. Although less so on the authoring front, since Print to PDF is probably 95% of PDF authoring these days. More so editing with all the current abilities and features PDF has to offer. Okular can probably technically do most of the editing functions I want; with the difference being Acrobat Pro intuitively did it correctly, probably in one step, and Okular did it weird, possibly with some flaw, and potentially using multiple functions to attempt to mimic one of Acrobat Pro's. The biggest being Acrobat Pro's Forms & Fields tool is light years more advanced than anything FOSS has to offer (As of 2019) I also don't know if any FOSS PDF editor can properly SSL Digitally Sign a PDF yet. There is also of course the entirely opinionated reason, that serves no functional argument. I simply think the Acrobat Pro UI looks better. Acrobat Pro feels like a commercial product, while Okular and other FOSS feel like a University student's school project (and likely started out that way). And there's nothing wrong with University student projects, I use them all the time, but why settle for the Volkswagen when you can have the Audi.
As for GIMP, when you say, "you can customize the entire interface and make it work more or less just like Photoshop", do you mean I can set all the keyboard shortcuts to Photoshop's? Or do you mean I can actually change the fundamentals of GIMP's toolset to match Photoshop's? If it's just the keyboard shortcuts, then I don't really care. While I should probably know a decent number of Photoshop shortcuts, My brain seems to only retain the Avid Media Composer ones. Also that wouldn't "fix" GIMP's functionality. Now if you can actually change the fundamentals of the GIMP toolset to match the Photoshop toolset, then that is something I need to do. My biggest complaint about GIMP, and always has been since v1, is why the **** are we reinventing the wheel? Why did you take a multi-tool that was logically paired, and break it up into 5 annoying tools? Why are you decreasing productivity? Photoshop 0.63 from 1988 has better, more intuitive functionality than GIMP current from today.
@@nikdog419 Interesting take on okular's interface. I prefer the simple and out of my way interface, but to each their own. I don't ever have a need to edit an existing PDF, and I don't know why anyone would. It's supposed to be a static format and was originally mostly just for printing due to document consistency. So I'd be curious to know how and why you need editing.
As to GIMP, I'm not sure what you mean by fundamentals of its toolset. If you mean move the buttons around and menu entries and all that, then yes, that is part of what I meant, along with the shortcuts being customizable. Last I checked its interface was written in a LISP variant and could be completely rejiggered. Though I haven't checked in a while as I've not needed to change anything in it, but since it's open source it wouldn't matter because you could either modify it yourself or find someone who wanted the same functionality and patched it themself.
@@anon_y_mousse Actually now that you've inadvertently made me think about it more than I would probably think about it on my own, I've realised the Okular UI and the Acrobat Pro UI are pretty much the same. Acrobat Pro just has more tools on it's toolbar, and is colour coded. I don't actually need the colour coding, but that in addition to it's bubbly UI gives me the illusion of it being prettier.
I will commonly get PDF forums authored by someone less computer literate than me without fillable form fields. Usually because it's just a Word document Printed to PDF or a form Scanned to PDF. The layman would think they have to print it out and fill it out by hand. Enter the Acrobat Pro Forms & Fields tool. With one click I can auto populate the entire PDF with fillable fields, 95% of the time without corrections. It even understands sectioned fields like, "Zip Code: |_|_|_|_|_|", and will either populate accordingly or at minimum put individual but functional fields there. Most of the time it even sets the field's metadata name correctly, ie First Name, Last Name, Address, etc. I still have to manually place checkboxes and ratios, if there are any, but that's really easy to do. While there are other ways to fill out PDF forms without re-authoring the PDF, I find this method to be extremely simple and fast. It also has the added benefit, I can now share the re-authored PDF. I've had that come up at work where the original author was amazed I was able to do that and asked me for my version so they could redistribute it with the requirement, typed not hand printed. The last time I attempted to do the same in Okular, which admittedly would probably be as long ago as 2018/19, I spent 2 hours struggling to eventually, I think, figure out how to manually place fields. Which I ended up deeming too time consuming for the size of the document, rebooting into windblows, and being done with it in 15min.
I also need to digitally sign PDFs, though very rarely. Okular may support this and I don't even know it. Acrobat Pro obviously supports whatever the official PDF digital signature format is. I think it uses SSL certificates. I know the verification system is similar to that of PGP/GPG, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what is powering the backend.
It's sounds like I need to re-explore the customisation abilities of GIMP. To me the GIMP toolset and the Photoshop toolset are 2 wildly different things. You can accomplish the same things with both, but how you get there is completely different. Right off the bat, the Photoshop toolset is graphics program standard. Like the MacPaint toolset is the Photoshop toolset is the MS Paint toolset is the Paint.net toolset is the Kid Pix toolset is the toolset, etc. The GIMP toolset feels like an attempt to reinvent the wheel. Which I vaguely recall being apart of the GIMP mission statement. Something along the line of we're not trying to make a replacement for Photoshop, we're trying to make a whole new graphics program. It was also originally intended just for simple image manipulation and conversion. Giving it it's name, GNU Image Manipulation Program. It's just grown into a larger project with time. What you can do with the Photoshop path selection tool, is split up amongst 3 to 5 tools in GIMP. Admittedly path selection tool is a terrible name since it does so much more. You can select paths, you can select objects, you can select text, you can move selections, you can scale selections, you can rotate selections, and probably more I'm not thinking of or know of; all without switching tools. What I do with 3 of Photoshop's tools, takes something ridiculous like 7 to 10 of GIMP's tools; All stacked on top of each other, always searching for the correct tool for what I'm trying to do, while thinking, "Man, Adobe sure has this streamlined. I guess that's why they're still the industry standard."
@@nikdog419 I've not had the displeasure of dealing with too many PDF forms, so I have no idea if okular still has the same behavior on that front. However, it sounds like it might be a good idea to suggest that to the developers. As for Photoshop, I've not used it so I'm not sure what you mean here. If it just chains tools together to operate on selections and/or layers, then that could be done in GIMP, but it would likely require either finding a plugin or writing the code yourself. So your average user likely won't be able to do it. If it's already built-in, I've never used such a feature. I'll have to look into this one more.
Great Video. Since i got my Steam Deck i will try to install resolve and check if this is also working.
What's your keyboard build? Sounds really good!!
"rendering times will be ridiculously long" shows 2 minute rendering time. Dude my first video editing system, 20 years ago, took half a day to render 15 minutes of 480x320 video.
Kdenlive on my Zorin (Gnome) system has a total of .-=287=-. dependencies. Sure, there are people that would install it regardless... but really?
I tried creating a simple music video with a still image and audio track using Olive 0.2 on Ubuntu. It was totally worthless. I couldn't find any Linux based video editing applications that worked.
There is no post-production suite for AV-content out there that can compete with davinci resolve in my opinion. I've been working a lot with it (i am a media production student) and absolutely adore this software. Frankly I think it is insane what blackmagicdesign gives you - and all of that for free - unless you want some advanced features, 4K export and gpu-rendering. That it runs natively on linux makes it even better. I kind of can't believe this software exists in our late stage capitalist world. Sadly I am still dependent on adobe, so.... yeah. I'm stuck with Windows 10 at the moment :(
I personally won't use Davinci Resolve due to apparently requiring proprietary drivers and needing a dongle (I hate proprietary dongles) if you use premium.
I already heavily use cropped video layers and don't really need advanced color grading. Davinci is just too bloated for what I do.
I keep seeing people use package managers enough times that I wonder how difficult it would be to set up one package manager on a completely different system. Like using AUR on a Debian based system or apt on Arch. If you're looking for video suggestions, take that and run as far as you can with it. I use Slackware and other than SBO, which I'm not even sure I would refer to as package management, I have none. Sure, slackpkg and installpkg exist as commands, and there is a format that they expect, and sure I can deb2tgz and rpm2tgz some stuff, but not everything will work that way and I generally just avoid it to build from source. If I could use AUR, that would be cool.
Nix is the best solution for a meta-package manager currently.
@Jordan Rodrigues True, and I can't even use either on my system, but I'd love to see one universal package manager so that every distribution would start to converge. Although, I'd also like to see dependencies resolved in a better way. It's no good to have 4 different versions of one library because 4 different programs all require it but none agree on which version. Don't even get me started on the lack of planning for the future for some library devs that mean constantly shifting API's, which causes a lot of these problems too.
Do you have links to their websites?
Software as a commodity is the same fake something, as "love for sale" or "friendship for many", that is it's a fake commodity. People's time - like developing or supporting their software - is to be payed, but not the algorithm itself (and it was that way in the early times, before inventing "proprietary software").
Tell me you are an Italian without telling me you are an Italian.. nice video bdw..
this dude has some fucking skills
I edited some of my first video on UA-cam with KDENLive back in 2014 ish(?)
Where did you learn to color grade like that?
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Codecs
1:54 - Software
3:05 - Beginner, kdenlive
4:42 - Not beginner stuff
Da Vinci does not install properly on Ubuntu Linux
What kind of key switch are you using?
really enjoyed the video, you're 2 for 2 in my book!
Someone never heard of wine
What are the specs for your Linux machine please?
Thank you so much.
is davinci resolve refusing to work only for me or anyone else has the problem, where I cant even import files? (pop os 22.04, rx 580 8gb)
No it just doesn't work anymore
Kdenlive has the features of paid software.
Cheers, amigo
not bad. Funny representation.
Coming from Premiere Pro, every single editor I've tried is close to unusable.
DaVinci is really difficult to get up running (whereas Premiere work(ed) on any machine).
Lightworks was promising (ultra nice performance) but UX for keyframe-animations is quite poor.
KdenLive, Pitivi, and the other 10 editors I've tried but failed to be usable are ... well... unusable.
Most tools lack (good) effects and a proper UX for using them.
But that's just my opinion.
I've used Premier Elements and would like to try Premier Pro, but just can't justify the subscription fee which I'd have to pay year after year. I edit videos for our family - not doing it as paid professional.
@@jackb1803 Totally with you! Exactly the same here. If you're not professional, the price is not in an affordable range. I hope Adobe does something here.
Or better: The open source community creates a Premiere Pro clone. (If anyone wants to team up, I'm happy to join in!)
great video
Stability and no crashes with Adobe software? HA! That would be the dream 🤣 (He said, as he tried to figure out why After Effects is giving render errors in the final result)
Anyway, thanks for the video, it was very informative!
Linux is simply not for creative production environments and that's it.
Deal breaker? For tooooo long. People have tried but is very frustrating that is not just: INSTALL>WORK>DELIVER!
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davinci is hell on linux on the free version
If you don't have Sony Vegas, you don't have a video editing platform.
btw that's how I think it will be in future: the top will be always the Apple(I don't worry to say my main pc is and always be a Mac Mini) side by side with an iPad, second will be GNU with fully solved the problems due an upgrade of the kernel Linux and the possibility of having Nvidia firmware open suorce...Microsoft Windows is getting more and more distant from this use, it lacks of many softwares natively plus isn't even Unix based.
so in the end of the edge Gnu-Linux will be just a folk's choice but not the pro.
People used Windows because was quite cheap, with making Office 365 so expencive they will loose many market share.
My Mac could be expencive but at least is fully usable, nowdays I cannot use Windows without seeing stupid flags "you are freemium" and this why ther're loosing ground.
I also can't stand the bloating and the fake news, I wanna see what I wanna see so I'm using only Unix based right now.
I also want to know what happening, both Mac and Fedora is allowing me this.
I also wanted a second pc cheap for speed dayli jobs and just digging on the web, I wanted a cheap and light no more bigger than 13inch laptop with microsd or sd reader built in.
I wanted the best combo, that's why Windows is loosing ground.
I'm not Windows hater, my mom loves and I get used to use it too seldom andI love it, but it lost many of its purpose...in the future 90% of Microsoft's exclusive will be no more exclusive and they are selling their softwares too much expencive.
I'm seeing many of "Microsoft is the past" red lights...Gnu-Linux is not perfect nor the community is(mostly of them are just toxic) but at least is understanding the market share.
Apple too but is looking alike they are getting more and more focusing in pro people, that's ok and Gnu-Linux will always supply the not pro people.
Windows is good for what in the end?! Gamers and office...ok but people cannot living doing gaming and gaming is quickly moving in Gnu-Linux too.
For office here is the big deal, Microsoft is rock here and probably the only target will be always on Microsoft and that's ok.
But for home pc Windows is loosing ground and isn't ideology, I think is ok having choices, but bad decisions.
You cannot even edit a document no more, is getting useless and useless...surely I'm in love with Github and VS Code but I don't find anymore why use a Windows as daily pc.
That's it.
We will have Apple, it has still the cool stuffs it has 30 years ago but Windows to me just looks in the end of its life at least managed like that.
Is no more comfortable, no more exclusive...is died.
So basically what you're saying is I'm fucked and I have to buy resolve or stick w/ adobe kek
kdenlive still has some problems & they're all a glorified windows movie maker lol (much better though)
Nothing beats Adobe products (when you actually buy them and get the updates)
Oh yeah and I MUST have GPU acceleration that's the deal breaker for me
Real men use vapoursynth
You have nothing else to say? But what if we all want to hear you say more?
More content pls thank
Do you know about Blender existence?
I tried it and too many of the shortcuts and lack of ease to activate snapping would scare anyone who doesn't already use Blender to edit 3D away.
It has insane VFX potential though.
@@AshnSilvercorp i Talking about video eduting. . And you?
@@vit.c.195 yes. I tried to use Blender as a video editor and would have had to take a good hour or two either learning the keyboard shortcuts or changing them to fit my preferences.
I could not figure out how to get tracks to snap and documentation just kept pointing to the 3D editor, not the video editor.
It can work, but it will not be out of the box for people in its current state.
@ponysmasher (David Sandberg, who made Shazam and a bunch of Horror movies) uses blender pretty extensively, and I think he's used some of its video editing features too. His youtube channel has some great tutorials ua-cam.com/users/sandberganimationvideos. I am curious as to how far you could get using Blender exclusively as a video editor.
@@AshnSilvercorp interesting. Blender was the first free software video editor I've ever used, and while it took some getting used to, but I only do small scale projects with it.
Links????
resolve is very good
I absolutely love your videos. They are so comfy and straight to the point.
Great video! I run a video production company and use exclusively Linux. I also have one of my contractors running it and it's been great. We edit in DaVinci Resolve Studio and we use GIMP, Krita, Blender, Handbrake and others. We also edit off a SAMBA share on a NAS. The pipeline is in order and works great for us.
How's your render time on Resolve studio Linux? GPU accelerated?. I'm currently using Windows with Nvidia GPU and my render speed is about 250fps (1080p)
Great vid!
Wow, your videos are amazing! Some of the best Linux videos on UA-cam at the moment. Seriously can NOT wait for more from you!
good stuff as last time, keep it up!
You are definitely someone I would trust on the topic of video editing, sir
i use arch btw
Your videos are straight out amazing, please keep making them! 🙏
This is some valuable information for everyone. I'm not a professional editor by any means, so far the basics have been covering me well in Linux. Hope that this changes in the future for professional who want something more serious out of the software.
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If resolve worked with MP4 and ACC on linux, I would be 150% satisfied with it.
The issue I have with Davinci Resolve is it doesn't open MP4s or most MPEG codecs. It's rough, I would need to buy the studio version otherwise, which I won't need for now. It's unfortunate but I'll have to bear with KDEnlive for now.
This channel will be next big Linux channel. I know IT. Great work!
Which version of linux that support these applications?
any 1 know if Pinnacle 19 or higher like Pinnacle 25 or Sony Vegas 8 pro will these works on linux??
Not a single mention of blender video editor? In which world Olive (an Uber-Beta software) is in the “State of video editing”, but Blender is not?
Agree. I think Blender is the best video editor you can get under Linux.
Great video! I've been using Davinci Resolve on linux since 2019. But prior to this year, I was already using it on MACOSX. It works fine on linux. I do have to convert my mp4 files to either mov or mxf before I can import it. The version of Davinci Resolve for linux does not support h264/mp4. My flow is a waste of time since I have to re-encode back it to mp4 when I'm about to upload it to youtube. I remember uploading a valid .mov file to youtube but it never generated a 4K version. It only created 1080p. Maybe I should try again to make sure what I am sharing is reproducible. If it works, I will be able to save tons of time since I don't have to re-encode it back to mp4 with ffmpeg.
there is also cinelerra-ng which uses ffmpeg as the media codec library and is a decent Linux only non-linear editor.
[P.S. it fixes nearly all your woes in this video check its feature set and be amazed!]
Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!
@jordanrodrigues1279 thanks for your reply! I'm glad to know about what would be the kinks with the program.
Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!
Cinelerra-gg, not ng (at least this way casual search will give you intended results)
Sudo dnf install
I was looking for FOSS to edit my videos with because I didn't want to use proprietary software on my phone; thank you!
Nice video bro, what is the song in the intro?
Nvm: Runaway by Blue Wednesday
In this video ay 4:00. you literally have the render option window open in Kdenlive showing the 4 gpu rendering options, while you say Kdenlive does not support HW rendering? Aloso Kdenlive can handle 10 bit video since April, but the effects are still 8-bit!
may be hw accelerated options were there, but not functional, at least in Flatpack version?
All I want and ask for si a Video Titler that can create Animated Titles instantly or several apps: Like LiveType was for Mac or SCALA Infochannel for super instant Video Presentations with Text and animated titles and transitions. I HATE having to Render Titles. It is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. SCALA did them on the fly in realtime...it was just normal. It was similar to what Powerpoint does. I want a Video Editor that can create Presentations and then export that Presentation as a Video File (again..Powerpoint does this now and for the past few years). WHy cant a Video Editor do this. FotoMagico on the Mac comes to mind too. Soooo Simple! We do Have PhotoFilmStrip on Linux but its basic.
*Nice, good points, we need also some great Kdenlive tutorials, we're waiting for you and others to share, I can hardly find any good advanced professional tutorials about Kdenlive , not everything should be done on proprietary software, many tricks , transitions , effects, can be done on Kdenlive, with some knowledge, experience and a brilliant artistic mind*
great information ;) but i tried Davinci Resolve, but it seems it does not accept MP4 video's directly from my camera ( using Zorin OS )