Video Editor (Non-CGI)

So I obviously use and love Blender but I also use to use HitFilm 2 Express. However I have made the glorious switch to Linux and HitFilm doesn’t run in Wine very well. I use Kdenlive a little but its very… basic. I’ve tried Lightworks and Pitivi too but they aren’t what I’m looking for. I need something like After effects or HitFilm where I can cut masks around film, resize, rotate, add flares, etc. And I would like it to be open source. However if its cheap and effective then I may consider it.

Use Blender ?

Also keep an eye on Natron. No flares yet, but you can do masking and most of the other basic stuff.

https://natron.inria.fr/

Richard Marklew, Blender doesnt sit well with me when it comes to putting all the clips of the film together. I like it more for just doing one shot at a time with CGI.

And Hype, thanks. I’ll check it out.

That is really too bad, since Blender has particle effects, camera tracking, composite nodes, and already has the VSE complete with audio output a la FFMpeg. I mean, they used it for a few Open Movies, and I find it very useful on my end since the controls for the strips are the same as the rest of Blender.

Blender vse is really bad for film editing, its far too tedious. However as for a free alternative to AF, i would certainly use it!

@blenderman556 Try checking out these alternatives. They’re available for Linux too.

OpenShot:
http://www.openshot.org/

Shotcut:
http://www.shotcut.org/

Yeah, Shotcut is a lot more powerful than it used to be. I gave it another go recently after having ignored it for a long time, and I was pretty impressed. For a Linux-compatible open source NLE, it’s one of the better ones out there.

@ohsnapirsjoel - I can’t say that I’ve tried Shotcut. Looks like Shotcut is well-maintained.

[Just a FYI: I hope I’ll be able to release a Shotcut-to-Blender-friendly-EDL converter soon, so you’ll be able to do your editing in Shotcut and then import the time line into Blender for post effects. Would there be any interest in using something like this?]

I’d be very interested. I’m wanting to make the move back to Linux, but I’m tied to my Creative Cloud. I need script software, and editor, and a compositor. Trelby would fill the script part, Blender and Natron or Fusion would handle the VFX, but I need a good editor (I don’t care for Lightworks). Shotcut looks very promising. It needs and edl exportor though, or at least a way to render parts of the timeline uncompressed

Davinci Resolve would fit the bill for a professional (and free) NLE. Especially seeing that BlackMagic will probably integrate Fusion in its workflow.

Resolve Lite won’t run on Linux, and I’m pretty sure my laptop couldn’t handle it anyway. It seems pretty picky about what it’ll run on.