I have it installed on my machine so clearly I've tried it, but I'll give it another shot (; Hmm, yeah... the thing about OpenShot is it's kinda buggy, and the UI is, well. Very Linux. As in, way the heck wrong. Kinda how after using Photoshop for a while, using GIMP is just plain painful. I looove Linux on my desktop, but I don't really do a lot of GUI-heavy stuff with it, to be honest. I have a ton of xterms (well, aterms) open, I can't STAND Gnome or KDE (I use Window Maker). I USED to use f-spot/ufraw/gimp for photography, but when that became a more serious hobby (and I got a Wacom tablet) out came Photoshop in a VM. I'd try that for video but video editing in a VM is painful... And yeah, looking for something with a nice UI on Linux is kind of a long-shot, but I do REALLY want to give it a try. I'm not trying to do anything even remotely as complex as stuff I do in Photoshop (; On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Paul Cutler wrote: > Give OpenShot[1] a try - I thought it was much easier to use than > PiTiVi. (Shameless plug, I interviewed the creator / maintainer a > year ago [2]) > > Paul > > [1] http://www.openshotvideo.com/ > [2] http://gnomejournal.org/article/90/interview-with-jonathan-thomas-creator-of-the-openshot-video-editor > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >> Alright, time to open THIS ol' can of worms up. >> >> The computer I used to use for video editing has become obsolete for the >> purpose, especially with everything being in HD. 5 hours to export a 5 >> minute video is just... not super acceptable. Be nice to be able to do video >> editing on my Linux desktop, but I've yet to find an application that A) >> Works, and B) Doesn't have a learning curve that requires advanced degrees >> to calculate. >> >> I'll get this out of the way so everyone can have a good laugh - yeah I'm a >> Linux on the desktop person, but I've been using a Mac for video editing. >> Yeah I know. So really what I'm looking for is not a super-advanced video >> editor. I want something that has the same basic functionality as iMovie >> (preferably the old version before they dumbed it down even more) - >> non-linear, lets you split/move/combine, lets you choose/add/edit audio >> tracks, add titles/transitions, that sort of stuff. >> >> I've tried Keno (didn't have ANY features I could find) Pitivi (can't handle >> AVCHD for some reason), Cinelerra (insanely overcomplicated, seriously when >> you're running on three monitors and still don't have enough room for all >> the windows?) and probably a couple more, all of which either don't work, >> can't actually edit videos, or can't export into a usable format. >> >> Is anyone on the list using Linux to do semi simple, but not totally >> braindead video editing? And if so, any recommendations? I'd really rather >> not spend a whole ton of money on a new Apple machine if I can help it. >> >> >> -Yaron >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > -Yaron --