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are shotcut and kdenlive any good video editors? just curious (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org
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i thought this question could fit here as this is a community about open source software after all, anyways.. i was gonna do editing for the first time and wanted to use something that's free and open source, i was considering either shotcut or kdenlive but i wanted to at least hear the community's opinion about it, i'll be waiting for the replies. thanks

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[โ€“] Aelis@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Shotcut is great if you never dived into video editing before, simply because it's great for quick and simple video editing, it's also fairly intuitive. But it can fall flat when you have specific (or more advanced) needs, like adding subtitles or specific effects, it's doable, features are not fully the problem here...just that it can be a needless pain to use in such instances.

Kdenlive on the other hand is more complete but less intuitive, yet if you want something a bit more advanced it will do the job more than nicely.

So it widely depends on your needs and how far you want to delve into video editing.

I'd say if you wanna go crazy go for Kdenlive, if you want something simple go for Shotcut. If you want to start simple and go crazy later go for both.

They are both more than decent editing softwares, but Kdenlive is surely the best of the two, if not one of the best out there.

[โ€“] NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

i might probably try kdenlive as it looks powerful enough lmao