Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux

Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by babuskov on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:34PM (#12857861)

What about video editing? I mean, I can live with Audacity for my basic needs, but I can't find anything simple as iMovie. Or should I just bite the bullet and learn Blender? Does it have preset screen transitions and stuff like that?

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by Mister_Snuggles on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:46PM (#12857982)

I've had great success with Kdenlive. It's not as simple as iMovie, but it isn't too hard to get started.

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by ollyfg on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:42PM (#12857931)

Have you tried openshot[1]? I haven't played much with it recently, but when it came out it was the most stable, simple video editor for linux.

[1] http://openshot.org/

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by babuskov on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:59PM (#12860162)

No. Wow, a lot of great suggestions here. I need to test stuff now :)

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by wazoox on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:42PM (#12859059)

I'm using OpenShot, it's perfectly serviceable, particularly the new 2.x version. There's also LightWorks and many other that works really well.

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by buovjaga on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:01PM (#12858713)

There's also Flowblade from Finland: http://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by oridecon on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:50PM (#12858625)

Shotcut, Kdenlive, Blender (overdrop)

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by arebop on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:50PM (#12858632)

Blender's Video Sequence Editor just has a couple of quirks to get past. It is not deeply mysterious.

Like: the VSE viewer and the Image viewer are similar but distinct; that can be confusing. And OpenGL acceleration on a Scene strip shows a 3D model rendition that is not (in general) the same as the rendered output of the Scene.

If you want to get fancy with the compositor + VSE, again there are just a couple of quirks but the learning curve is merely steep, not long.

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by JoelTheSuperior on Thursday November 03, 2016 @05:55AM (#12862642)

Have you tried DaVinci Resolve? Last I checked it had a native Linux version. Unfortunately I don't think the Linux version is available for free (unlike the Windows and Mac versions).

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by zanny on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:48PM (#12857997)

Blender is 3d modeling and animation, vastly divergent from video editing with kdenlive / openshot / etc.

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by th0ma5 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:05PM (#12858200)

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Blender actually contains a non-linear video editor as well.

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by s_kilk on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:53PM (#12858649)

Blender probably contains a full copy of Blender inside itself too. That program is nuts.

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by Motomorgen on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:47PM (#12858605)

And it's probably one of the nicer options if/when you finally "get it". But the learning curve is tough.

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by jdietrich on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:49PM (#12858618)

It's the least bad NLE for Linux. The UI is awful, but it's stable and has a reasonable feature set.

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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by morsch on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:30PM (#12858951)

I was completely lost when I tried to use it. I wasn't even sure I found the NLE section of the program.

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