Agreed. Have always wondered how (and why) some RUclips 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
Note: For those who are using an AMD GPU running Mesa drivers (open source), Resolve would not work for you on Linux. You would either have to get OpenCL driver opencl-amd from AUR, which is proprietary, or use AMD GPU PRO proprietary drivers, which have a negative performance impact. For Nvidia users, there is no issue as long as you have a modern enough GPU that Resolve has CUDA support enabled for.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
In 2007 I edited a skate video with a very very early build of Kdenlive because I had no other choice ( ruclips.net/video/hUVBcEWIrZk/видео.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.
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.
*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*
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 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 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.
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
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 :(
"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 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)_/¯
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").
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!
As a beginner I feel I've given Cin a fair shake but there are two showstoppers for me. First, I typically want video and audio clips to stay synced with each other while making creative cuts. I do want J/L cuts and the ability to punch out sections of audio but I *don't* want to forget one of the stupid little padlock buttons and then after a dozen ripple deletes realize that my lipsync is approximately 13 frames off - somewhere. Even if I need to sync audio and video from different sources I want to sync them once and then have them stick. Second, title text. I'm taking style cues from Asian TikTok, or about the same energy as a comic book that was lettered using the WordArt feature of Microsoft Office in 2006. Cin's tools for text are super finicky and beige, even stupid things like the way title effects form a staircase matter when the video needs 10-20 titles per minute. I know that what I want is visual nonsense while Cin is a serious tool, but it's, like, 80s community access TV levels of serious. So I wouldn't recommend it to other beginners.
@@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!
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.
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.
The current fad is add-on package managers like Snap and Flatpak and it makes Linux worse because now you need 4 different package managers that install 10 copies of the same darn library.
@@jordanrodrigues1279 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.
Linux has certainly started to explode. Linux popularity can only increase from now on. Specially with professional and marvelous DE like KDE Plasma and Gnome.
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!
My opinion is that free software is mostly important for your own personal PC where you want to be in control of everything. Once you are in a business, working for money, you might not care about the freedom, because the computer becomes an industrial equipment. Of course, I personally would prefer to keep my business secrets on a computer that I can trust is not spying on me (by free software), but the PC or PCs of my film studio that only contain material that is already well protected by copyright, well, using proprietary software has no serious downside. So, my opinion is, that the free software community has to disproportionately target the independent creator, who isn't realistically making money on their project to a degree that would justify them buying the dedicated editing machine with the software. While I'd be happy to see free software pro level video editors, I think more people are influenced on the level of amateur / small scale professional / semi professional arena.
i think you have the conclusion backwards. the free software is hobbyist level because there is no focused organisation for making professional software in many cases, it's just one or two people that made some software to get a specific job done at a specific time. the ones that are successful at having a chance of professional use (e.g. blender) have an org behind them and money to extend said org's lifespan also i disagree with your point about business but youtube isn't the place for an essay on that
@@user-lb1ib8rz4h I don't think I said anything that is contrary to what you're saying. What you're saying is the reason why some things are the way they are. And I generally agree with you on that. What I said is what I personally thing about how free software projects *should* prioritize.
@@NiceMicroTV i think they already are prioritising hobbyists, and that's one missed opportunity to attract a new class of users (people who use their computer for work and personal tasks) if your work is coding, there's not likely to be much issue, but if your work is almost anything else it becomes much harder to sustain using linux distros atm
The conclusion that it could be used mainly for very small businesses and creators is a bit misleading. In some fields, very large creators and businesses are using Linux, for instance VFX farms and rendering. I mean Hollywood; at that scale, Linux is simply better. Maybe I got your point wrong.
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.
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)
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This guy came out of nowhere with top notch quality content. What the hell.
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I will soon be making content like this too. When I move out of my parents house.
@@naskue4187 looking forward to it
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Agreed. Have always wondered how (and why) some RUclips 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
I feel like I'm witnessing the rise of something big
Linux or video editing on Linux ?
@@proctoscopefilms The channel growing
as am I
I absolutely love your videos. They are so comfy and straight to the point.
Note: For those who are using an AMD GPU running Mesa drivers (open source), Resolve would not work for you on Linux. You would either have to get OpenCL driver opencl-amd from AUR, which is proprietary, or use AMD GPU PRO proprietary drivers, which have a negative performance impact. For Nvidia users, there is no issue as long as you have a modern enough GPU that Resolve has CUDA support enabled for.
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
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)
I can already tell that this video is going to be a masterpiece.
Your videos are straight out amazing, please keep making them! 🙏
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.
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.
Wow, your videos are amazing! Some of the best Linux videos on RUclips at the moment. Seriously can NOT wait for more from you!
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.
great production skills and content, I love it, keep the good work up.
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).
You are definitely someone I would trust on the topic of video editing, sir
nice, I watched all of your videos through recommendations on the right side. This means I have to subscribe!
You will have our full support if you keep making work of art such as this, especially on linux!
Davinci resolve just works. *For Ultra High end pc.*
good stuff as last time, keep it up!
This channel will be next big Linux channel. I know IT. Great work!
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.
OMG THANKS SO SO MUCH THIS HELPED!!!
Great vid!
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!
Lets go, this video gonna be poggers
I realy like your way of producing videos
This channel is bound to be bigger than all the current channels on linux, mark my words
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
Thank you so much.
03:37 I salute the precise phrasing. One does not just "use Arch". One "uses Arch BTW".
😊
Great Video. Since i got my Steam Deck i will try to install resolve and check if this is also working.
Cheers, amigo
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!
Nice video!
i don't use Linux, i know close to nothing about it, but here i am, you're videos are great
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.
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.
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Codecs
1:54 - Software
3:05 - Beginner, kdenlive
4:42 - Not beginner stuff
great video
I was looking for FOSS to edit my videos with because I didn't want to use proprietary software on my phone; thank you!
is this video made with linux???
really enjoyed the video, you're 2 for 2 in my book!
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.
What's your keyboard build? Sounds really good!!
Hey, I’m curious. What’s your desktop configuration like. I really like the look of your operating system. It’s a clean aesthetic. Nice video too.
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.
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.
What kind of key switch are you using?
Tell me you are an Italian without telling me you are an Italian.. nice video bdw..
dope! i really miss ae tho. i don't know it might work with wine but haven't tried yet.
Where did you learn to color grade like that?
man this channel should have a lot more subs and views tho only has 3 vids
What are the specs for your Linux machine please?
In 2007 I edited a skate video with a very very early build of Kdenlive because I had no other choice ( ruclips.net/video/hUVBcEWIrZk/видео.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.
What is the best operating system for video editing PC?
great information ;) but i tried Davinci Resolve, but it seems it does not accept MP4 video's directly from my camera ( using Zorin OS )
If you hadn't overlooked Blender as a serious alternative then I would have subscribed to your channel.
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.
Do you have links to their websites?
*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*
Nice video bro, what is the song in the intro?
Nvm: Runaway by Blue Wednesday
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.
If resolve worked with MP4 and ACC on linux, I would be 150% satisfied with it.
Do these work in a chromebook?
Da Vinci does not install properly on Ubuntu Linux
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Make a video on how to customize awesome wm for beginners
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.
not bad. Funny representation.
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.
i use arch btw
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
wowooww
I edited some of my first video on RUclips with KDENLive back in 2014 ish(?)
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)
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 :(
"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 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)_/¯
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").
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!
As a beginner I feel I've given Cin a fair shake but there are two showstoppers for me.
First, I typically want video and audio clips to stay synced with each other while making creative cuts. I do want J/L cuts and the ability to punch out sections of audio but I *don't* want to forget one of the stupid little padlock buttons and then after a dozen ripple deletes realize that my lipsync is approximately 13 frames off - somewhere.
Even if I need to sync audio and video from different sources I want to sync them once and then have them stick.
Second, title text. I'm taking style cues from Asian TikTok, or about the same energy as a comic book that was lettered using the WordArt feature of Microsoft Office in 2006. Cin's tools for text are super finicky and beige, even stupid things like the way title effects form a staircase matter when the video needs 10-20 titles per minute.
I know that what I want is visual nonsense while Cin is a serious tool, but it's, like, 80s community access TV levels of serious. So I wouldn't recommend it to other beginners.
@@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)
this dude has some fucking skills
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.
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.
Someone never heard of wine
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.
The current fad is add-on package managers like Snap and Flatpak and it makes Linux worse because now you need 4 different package managers that install 10 copies of the same darn library.
@@jordanrodrigues1279 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.
Kdenlive on my Zorin (Gnome) system has a total of .-=287=-. dependencies. Sure, there are people that would install it regardless... but really?
daVinci Resolve does not run on Linux..though EVERYONE is trying to do so-
Linux has certainly started to explode. Linux popularity can only increase from now on. Specially with professional and marvelous DE like KDE Plasma and Gnome.
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?
"Dead 😂 at 07:00"
davinci is hell on linux on the free version
My opinion is that free software is mostly important for your own personal PC where you want to be in control of everything.
Once you are in a business, working for money, you might not care about the freedom, because the computer becomes an industrial equipment. Of course, I personally would prefer to keep my business secrets on a computer that I can trust is not spying on me (by free software), but the PC or PCs of my film studio that only contain material that is already well protected by copyright, well, using proprietary software has no serious downside.
So, my opinion is, that the free software community has to disproportionately target the independent creator, who isn't realistically making money on their project to a degree that would justify them buying the dedicated editing machine with the software. While I'd be happy to see free software pro level video editors, I think more people are influenced on the level of amateur / small scale professional / semi professional arena.
i think you have the conclusion backwards. the free software is hobbyist level because there is no focused organisation for making professional software in many cases, it's just one or two people that made some software to get a specific job done at a specific time. the ones that are successful at having a chance of professional use (e.g. blender) have an org behind them and money to extend said org's lifespan
also i disagree with your point about business but youtube isn't the place for an essay on that
@@user-lb1ib8rz4h I don't think I said anything that is contrary to what you're saying. What you're saying is the reason why some things are the way they are. And I generally agree with you on that.
What I said is what I personally thing about how free software projects *should* prioritize.
@@NiceMicroTV i think they already are prioritising hobbyists, and that's one missed opportunity to attract a new class of users (people who use their computer for work and personal tasks)
if your work is coding, there's not likely to be much issue, but if your work is almost anything else it becomes much harder to sustain using linux distros atm
The conclusion that it could be used mainly for very small businesses and creators is a bit misleading. In some fields, very large creators and businesses are using Linux, for instance VFX farms and rendering. I mean Hollywood; at that scale, Linux is simply better. Maybe I got your point wrong.
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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.
Kdenlive has the features of paid 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)
Anyway, thanks for the video, it was very informative!
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If you don't have Sony Vegas, you don't have a video editing platform.