A Look at Kdenlive – Libre Video Editor for GNU/Linux

I have done my fair share (or more) of video editing in my life, primarily using Adobe Premiere Pro as I was taught in college. However, I try not to use Windows unless I have to, and so I’ve been always on the hunt for better options for my GNU/Linux systems – and I think I’ve found my personal favourite video editor; Kdenlive.

Kdenlive is a free video editor that up until this point, has yet to let me down for my personal needs, and has also been easily the simplest and fastest for encoding and exporting videos.

💡 Kdenlive features

The Kdenlive website lists the features as:

✅ Multi-track video editing
✅ Use any audio / video format
✅ Configurable interface and shortcuts
✅ Titler
✅ Many effects and transitions
✅ Audio and video scopes
✅ Proxy editing
✅ Online resources
✅ Timeline preview
✅ Keyframeable effects
✅ Themable interface

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👀 👉🏼 https://kdenlive.org/en/

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The best free Audacity Alternatives

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/04/the-best-free-audacity-alternatives/


All alternatives listed below lack at least one of the main characteristics of Audacity. They are either only available for one operating system, e.g. Windows, not open source, don't offer the same set of core features, or lack in other departments.

Audacity Forks

Audacity is an open source project, and developers started to fork the application as soon as the announcement hit the Internet that the project team changed.

Forks match all main characteristics of Audacity, but there is no "main" fork yet that all disgruntled developers and users switched to.

Here is a link to a promising forks (because it is updated regularly)

https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity


#alternatives #audacity #audio #editor

MKVToolNix
Matroska files creator and tools

MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unixes and Windows.

With these tools you can get information about Matroska files (mkvinfo), you can extract tracks and data from Matroska files (mkvextract) and create Matroska files (mkvmerge) from other multimedia files.

Download: https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html

https://gitlab.com/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix

@foss_desktop
#video #editor

🇵🇸 Ghassan Kanafani: Voice of Palestine (1936-1972) - Palestine Chronicle –

Kanafani was one of the most important figures in 20th century literature. He was also a refugee, a revolutionary Marxist and an internationalist. The Israelis claimed the assassination was a response to the Lod Airport attack two months earlier, although Kanafani had played no direct role in this. He was, according to the obituary in the Lebanese Daily Star, ‘a commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages.’ Kanafani was at the time of his death the official spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the editor of its paper #AlHadaf. The organisation saluted ‘the leader, the writer, the #strategist, and the visionary.

#Palestine #GhassanKanafani #PFLP #Resistance #Culture #Fedayeen #Author #Artist #Writer #Editor #Activist #Journalist #Intellectual #Lebanon #Beirut #Mossad

Adobe just announced new terms that say they will do whatever they want with your content, so here are some alternatives to consider.

3DS Max
Blender

Acrobat
Evince (read)
Inkscape (edit multi page)
LibreOffice_Draw (create, edit, sign)
LibreOffice_Writer (create)
Nextcloud LibreSign (sign)
Okular (read, annotate, sign)
OnlyOffice (read, edit)
PDF-Shuffler (merge, arrange, delete)
XReader (read)

AdobeXD
Akira
Figma
Lunacy
Pencil
Penpot

After Effects
Astrofox (audio responsive animations)
BlackMagicDesign Fusion (proprietary)
HitFilm (proprietary)
Natron

Animate
Blender (3D)
Friction
Glaxnimate (2D)
Synfig (2D)

Audition
Tenacity
Audor
LMMS

Cinema 4D
Blender

Fresco
Krita

Illustrator
Inkscape
Krita
sK1

InDesign
Lyx
Scribus

Lightroom
Darktable
Raw Therapee

Paint
Krita
MyPaint

Photoshop
GIMP
Krita

PremierePro
DavinciResolve (proprietary)
Kdenlive
Olive Video
OpenShot
Pitivi
Shotcut

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#graphic #editor #Adobe #Alternatives

LosslessCut

#Lossless #video #audio #editor
Electron based. Linux windows or mac

LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files. The main feature is lossless trimming and cutting of video and audio files, which is great for saving space by rough-cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re-encode and thereby losing quality. Or you can add a music or subtitle track to your video without needing to encode. Everything is extremely fast because it does an almost direct data copy, fueled by the awesome FFmpeg which does all the grunt work.

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

Krita

Free and open source digital painting application. It is for artists who want to create professional work from start to end. Krita is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters and in the digital VFX industry.

https://krita.org

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita

Download
https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/graphics/krita/

#AI plugin
https://kritaaidiffusion.com

#image #editor #paint

A View on the Open-Source Video Editing Landscape

https://youtu.be/qEYGGqolEvs

https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm25-upstream-2025-83652-a-view-on-the-open-source-video-editing-landscape

Whether it is stitching together some travel footage or producing high-quality film content, there are many ways people want to work with the medium "video". Their needs for #video #editing solutions are diverse, and so is their budget.

Open-source video editing software seems great for beginners to get started at zero cost. What do you get and what do you have to give up on compared to the closed-source options? What does it even take to build software like this from scratch, technologically as well as mentally?

This talk takes a brief look at the free-to-use options for video editing on a desktop computer before switching the perspective to that of the developers and maintainers of such software. It offers insights into the struggles with technology, fundraising, self-motivation, and community dynamics, while also highlighting the rewarding moments and intriguing current and future developments.

Simran Spiller

https://pretalx.c3voc.de/lgm25-upstream-2025/talk/504479317/

#editor #lgm2025