I've just noticed that this year's Best Picture Oscar winner, The
King's Speech, was edited using Lightworks.  So it must be a good
editor, but maybe not the entry-level editor you are looking for.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Curtis Griesel <cwgriesel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, you've already covered the three most popular video editors in
> Linux at the moment,  OpenShot, Kdenlive, and Kino.
>
> I've played with all three myself, but always end up going back to
> iMovie on a Mac to get things done.  As you've noted, non-linear video
> editors on Linux have many shortcomings at the moment.
>
> A lot of people are waiting for Lightworks (www.lightworksbeta.com) to
> come out for Linux, which may happen by the end of this year.  You can
> currently get Lightworks for Windows only.  Lightworks is more for the
> professional level, and is not as simple as iMovie, but it should be
> pretty feature-rich and higher quality that the current video editor
> options in Linux.
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Michael Berkowski wrote:
>>
>>> How about Kdenlive? Haven't used it but I hear it has a lot more features
>>> than Keno without Cinelerra's learning curve.
>>
>> Also buggy/slow as all getout. There should not be a time where moving a
>> scrollbar or changing a zoom level makes the program hang so bad that the UI
>> elements don't redraw for like 5 minutes...
>>
>>
>> -Yaron
>>
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