Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a simple video editor?

[Dale]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each).  All I
> want to do is
>
>  1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out
>     at the end of each clip.
>
>  2) Superimpose a title at the beginning for a few seconds.
>
> Can anybody recomment a simple video editor?
>
>
> So far I've tried Openshot and Cinelerra and niether is usable even
> for my trivial task.
>
> Openshot 2.07
>
>   The native amd64 build segfault a _lot_.  Any time you try to move
>   the "playback head" or whatever it's called it segfaults. Various
>   other GUI operations also cause a segfault.  Sometimes it gets the
>   project file into some broken state and then can't even start up and
>   load the project file without segfaulting.
>
>   Oh, and it "auto saves" periodically, so you can't even rely on it
>   not borking a working project file even though you never clicked
>   "save".
>
>   The AppImage binary at least allows the GUI to work, but it can't
>   render a 5 minute video.  It either aborts part-way through or just
>   locks up burning 100% CPU until you send it a SIGKILL.
>
>   I was finally able to set up the edits using the AppImage binary,
>   then open the project using the native Gentoo binary and render the
>   video.  The resulting video quality was terrible.  The video
>   stuttered, pixellated, and in some spots even appeared to jump
>   forward/backward repeatedly.  That was with the highest quality
>   setting (the output file size was acually significantly larger than
>   the sum of the input file sizes).  Even though the video quality was
>   severly degraded.
>
>
> Cinelerra 2012 (stable).
>
>   I used Cinelerra for a small project once before, and though it
>   _worked_ I hated every second of it.  The GUI is a nightmare.  It
>   uses some home-made widget set that I find incomprehensible.
>
>   I could probably grit my teeth long enough for this simple task,
>   except Cinelerra seems unable to deal with AAC audio.  It
>   misidentifies as some other PCM format, and all of the imported
>   files just have a short burst of noise at the beginning followed by
>   silence.  Cinelerra also doesn't seem to be able to play the
>   imported.mp4 video files at the proper framerate it's bog-standard
>   Android phone video: H264 1280x720 30fps, but Cinelerra insists on
>   playing at a some higher frame-rate.
>
> I may try Cinelerra 2014, but I'm not optimistic -- Cinelerra is known
> for it's slow rate of change.
>
>

Here is a couple more video editors that you may want to look into.

Kdenlive  kde-apps/kdenlive

Avidemux  media-video/avidemux 

The first one is KDE based.  Last time I used it, it was large but had
lots of fancy stuff it could do.  The second one has both a gtk and qt
based version.  I'm guessing that is controlled by USE flags.  I seem to
have both of them here.  :/

Maybe one of those will help.

Dale

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