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Feeling Abandoned by Adobe? Check Out the Video Editing Suites for Penguins
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How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @12:32AM
I'd go for kdenlive first, remembering to get advantage of proxy clips for HD and to keep multiple versions of project files because of some corruption in transitions. Cinelerra has bezier control curves, but the GUI is peculiar.
Never used proprietary editors so I dunno what I am missing but if you cannot get professional looking montage out of those two, it's likely a problem between keyboard and chair.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Monday December 28 2015, @05:09AM
I second kdenlive.
I'm not a power user but Its all I've every needed for the basic editing that I do, cutting/pasting/cropping video and audio clips together.
I've never used any Adobe video software so I can't compare them.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 3, Informative) by jmoschner on Monday December 28 2015, @07:08AM
Most of those will work for basic consumer use. In a professional environment, none of those programs do the job. They either can't handle the files, crash constantly, and/or are missing features. They also kinda suck at data management and lots of little things that you don't even think about until they are not there or don't work.
To replace Adobe for video I would recommend:
Avid for editing
Resolve for grading and/or editing
Fusion for compositing/mograph/VFX
Avid is a better editor than Premiere for long form and 4k+. Premiere is best for shorter projects or projects where you will be bouncing back and forth between it and AE.
I like Davinci Resolve for grading anyway, not the biggest fan of editing in it, but it gets the job done. Better for features than TV and daily turns.
I prefer AE to Fusion, but that is probably just a comfort level thing. I'm going to try doing more in Fusion once I clear my current work slate.
Right now the programs keeping with Adobe are AE, Photoshop, and Illustrator. AE is still king for so many things that it is hard to quit it and the 3rd party plug-ins make it so much faster and more powerful. The interoperability between AE/PS/AI saves so much time and money. PS is still king of image editing and so much can be done so much faster than what I can do with opensource (with my workflow) that it pays for itself. Same with AI. While there are good vector and drawing programs, the ability to pull in and even copy and paste objects or data into AE just isn't duplicated with other software. And even when files are saved as AI or PSD files, they don't always import correctly.
(Score: 1) by tnt118 on Monday December 28 2015, @03:55PM
I'd been trying Resolve for a bit at home as my version of Adobe CC is getting quite old and I can't commit to CC2015 just yet. This is mostly for some volunteer work and small- to mid-sized projects. As much as I'm a fan of BlackMagic overall, I'm surprised they've intentionally left out support for some file types that they don't consider "professional". It has kept me from being able to use it full time, and while it is a pretty decent program I just can't recommend it at this point.
Yes the files can be converted, but I'm not really willing to introduce anything that adds extra time to these projects. Besides that, I'm impressed that they've done a fantastic job of having a freemium model that includes a ridiculous number of features without paying a penny. Of course their hope is to get people into the ecosystem and start selling the $20k control panels to professionals, heh.
I think I like it here.
(Score: 2) by jmoschner on Monday December 28 2015, @05:15PM
Resolve is not quite ready for prime time as an editing suite, but is still the standard for color grading. I prefer to use Avid for editing in a pro environment.
For a free option try looking at https://hitfilm.com/express [hitfilm.com]
It is the free video editor and compositor from the guys at Film Riot. I haven't played with it myself, but I've heard good things, though I hear it won't be replacing Avid or AE anytime soon.
(Score: 1) by GDX on Tuesday December 29 2015, @10:18PM
give a look to lightworks https://www.lwks.com/ [lwks.com] , the free version is a little limited but the pro version is a real heavy weight.