I used to be a Linux computer engineer, and I still use Linux only. After giving a try to OpenShot (just unusable) and ShotCut, I discovered that it is possible to do video editing using ffmpeg (providing a sort of edit script using the -filter-complex option). The edit script is written using... Gnu Emacs.
So, definitely not a choice for everybody, but to me 2 really important benefits, as I only have a small i3 based laptop:
- the editing description is text only. Once I know how to do some effect and I want to use it in another video, it's only about cutting and pasting text. No need to click around in a timeline, which on a small laptop with just a touchpad, can be slow and tricky.
- no fancy user interface; generating the final video is just running a program in a terminal, and wait. No more memory used than the one necessary to generate the result from the script.
using adobe premiere for 2years,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but what else is there? obviously sony vegas, final cut, any other similarly PRO video editing tools out there?
I was using Sony Vegas Pro 14, it crashed all the time so right now im using Adobe Premiere Pros which is amazing. Also for my thumbnails etc i use Photoshop 2020, pretty good as well.
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