The basic tools of a good video editor, including clip libraries, timelines and drag-and-drop editing are all there. Thanks to FFmpeg under the hood, it has good codec support and will work with just about any video, audio, and image formats. For now you'll be using 1.4.3, which is a capable, if somewhat basic video editor. It's no small undertaking in other words. There's a good reason for the delay, OpenShot 2.0 will be a total re-write and even abandons the underlying Media Lovin' Toolkit (MLT) backend in favor of a custom backend.

The primary developer has been hard at work on OpenShot 2.0 for, well, quite a while now. Unfortunately, OpenShot 1.x is looking largely like abandonware at this point. OpenShot was once the go-to standard for video editing on GNOME-based distros. Instead we'll start with an editor that is probably familiar to most Ubuntu and GNOME desktop users, since it has long shipped as part of the default application stack – OpenShot. At the other end of the equation is an app such as Avidemux, which is fine for quick edits to single clips – trimming commercials out of something you recorded for instance – but lacks tools, such as a timeline editor. The same goes for output format, if you need to export/render to a specific codec your search may need to be a little more limited.įor example, while Lightworks is a capable editor the export options in the free version are extremely limited, which is why it won't be covered below. Regardless of what camera you use, be sure to visit each of the project pages for the software below and double check to make sure your camera is supported.

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