Re: Video editing software and a documentary on neutrality
On 23/09/15 08:44, kingsley@loaner.com wrote:
> For what it's worth, here are my humble thoughts on open source software
> that I use for a documentary on Switzerland's excellent neutrality.
>
> It seems to me that in the last few years, a usable video editing
> package became available for linux.
>
> It's called "openshot".
>
> But make sure to save your work about every minute.
>
> I love its special effects and transitions like fade in, fade out, video
> within a video, etc, etc...
>
> However, openshot is not being updated.
>
> So, I went back to another opensource video editor named "kdenlive",
> which I remembered as having trouble synchronizing
> audio and video.
>
> Kdenlive seems to me to have even more special effects.
>
> And I find that when I now import .wav audio files, I often loose about
> a second of sound at random positions/times.
>
> To be fair, I don't know if this is caused by my recording device or the
> bug I remembered in kdenlive.
>
> So far, I work around it by just using the audio from the camera's built
> in microphone, which is lower quality, but only for the second of
> missing audio from the imported .wav file.
>
> kdenlive crashes too, but not as often. (Save, save and save.)
>
I've been using Blender for some video:
http://danielpocock.com/quick-start-blender-video-editing
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