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  • Why does open source software tend to lack quality / usable design?
    by gilesvangruisen
  • I have seen enough atrocious proprietary UOs that I am not convinced your underlying thesis is correct.
    by trelane
  • I don't work on open source but it could be:

    - Good design requires user interviews, which are less common in open source - The sorts of people who are most attracted to open source work are programmers, not designers - Open source software can get popular even with bad design; closed source software with bad design fails and shuts down

    by MichaelDickens
  • How far is blender off this nowadays?
    by countrymile
  • AFAIK out of "Record, Edit, and Color", Blender mostly excels at the editing part of video editing. There is no recording at all, and coloring you'd do via the "Post Processing" which can be via nodes or "standard". Coloring is alright, although far cry from Resolve.

    If you're already used to the Blender shortcuts though, editing video is a breeze and everything just works as expected, which is really nice. But I wouldn't pick up Blender and its shortcuts just to edit video, then I'd probably go with something more fully meant for video editing.

    by embedding-shape
  • - ...but is the video encoding fast? - Does it often break while encoding?

    That was my experience some years ago and I decided I will skip a decade to see it all working.

    by renegat0x0
  • Who knew a QT app could look this good? Congratulations on the release.
    by ricardobeat
  • This is QT? I couldn’t tell it looks so good
    by stogot
  • I am quite familiar with Resolve..I am not a pro, and it's probably totally overload for my purpose, but I think it's easy to learn and even quite intuitive

    I tried many others, but mostly all others are not stable enough or have an even worse UI/UX... so I wonder... is this different?

    by y42
  • I’m also not pro and just need an editor for Youtube or work. I think open source editors like Openshot and Kdenlive are generally underrated and easier to use than they used to be but even for just cutting together clips, adding text, and using keyframes it’s hard to beat how nice Resolve is.
    by VariousPrograms
  • Will have to give this a whirl with a screen reader, see how it does. Given the only somewhat working video editor accessibility-wise is currently Clipchamp, competition is sorely needed. Don't have high hopes, but I guess a x.0 release might be the time for me to start fixing it if nobody else is going to -.-
    by zersiax
  • This is one of those occasions where a video would be appropriate.
    by localtoast2
  • They have videos for 3.0, 3.3 and 3.4, maybe check back on their channel in a few days or weeks: https://www.youtube.com/@OpenShotOfficial/videos
    by Mashimo
  • (self promotion)

    I've been working on OpenPost's Video Editor (Svelte-based video editor that runs on your (chromium) browser). If anyone's looking for something they can run on the browser, fully free and OSS as well, check it out https://app.openpost.social/video-editor

    Currently really in early Beta but this seems like a great place to mention it.

    Here is the repo if you want to give it a star

    https://github.com/getopenpost/openpost

    by kraktoos
  • The "open-x" product name inflation - how did that happen
    by upcoming-sesame
  • Related. Others?

    OpenShot 3.0 Released – Stability, Performance, and Usability - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943790 - Dec 2022 (3 comments)

    OpenShot Video Editor – Free, Open and Award-Winning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31324136 - May 2022 (2 comments)

    OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28324536 - Aug 2021 (16 comments)

    OpenShot 2.5.0: Video Editing and Hardware Acceleration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336504 - Feb 2020 (4 comments)

    OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19725823 - April 2019 (88 comments)

    OpenShot 2.4.1 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15689998 - Nov 2017 (10 comments)

    OpenShot 2.0.6 (Public Beta) Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071014 - Feb 2016 (27 comments)

    OpenShot Video Editor Achieves $35k on Kickstarter, Final Goal in Reach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552289 - April 2013 (1 comment)

    by dang
  • There is also Blick which launched recently which claims to be very very fast https://blickeditor.com/?lang=en and part of recent wave of fast software (Task Slinger, File Pilot)
    by smusamashah
  • The fact that they reimplemented everything from scratch doesn't give much confidence. The last thing I want to deal with in a video editor are bugs from code that's seen less real-world use, originating from who knows where.
    by cleaning
  • Neither open source nor free however.
    by bberrry
  • Nice, looks like a great release. UI looks like it got a nice touch up and also cool to see that the project has AI powered object masking using onnx models: https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-onnx.
    by zikani_03
  • I've supported OpenShot financially in the past, but I'm currently leaning towards LosslessCut and Shortcut.

    Most people want a video editor to splice and concatenate video files without any loss or transcoding. I believe this behavior (lossless) should be default on all of these editors.

    by hn_submit
  • Try Kdenlive
    by MavropaliasG
  • > Shortcut

    Shotcut.

    by tempodox
  • For that kind of functionality, I would always recommend Avidemux[0]. It's quite a light package (which I like), and it allows you to do that and some other useful things too.

    [0] http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

    by Sophira
  • LosslessCut is great, but I've had issues with the final export like timing being off, having cut sequence etc. I think it is very particular about encoding/container.

    Shotcut is my default video editor, if anyone's trying it on Linux please use their AppImage as it solved most of my headaches when I was using Flatpak version.

    by Abishek_Muthian
  • You have to make a lot of sacrifices for lossless editing, so it’ll probably always be a specialized app or at least a separate tool within an all-purpose NLE. For instance, you’re limited to compatible input streams and you can only cut on specific intervals, depending on encoder settings etc.

    I guess an NLE could import clips in a locked mode by default that only supports lossless operations, and you’d have to specifically enable the rest. Could be interesting.

    by wvbdmp
  • > Most people want a video editor to splice and concatenate video files without any loss or transcoding

    You can do this with mpv. It's an open source cross platform media player.

    For example, here's how I set up a tiny Lua script extension[0] to be able to visually cut videos in an intuitive way. It does it in seconds without re-rendering the video by shelling out to ffmpeg.

    Years ago I did the same thing with a shell script CLI tool[1], but mpv's visual aspect makes it so much faster and easier to make clips out of a longer video.

    [0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/visually-create-video-clips-w...

    [1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/create-video-clips-with-ffmpe...

    by nickjj