3 Free Open-source Video Editors for Linux

Video editors could always make your videos better for display. There are various video editors around, for mac, YouTube video editor is available, for win, the free windows movie maker will be perfect, and then as to Linux, the video editors below are for your reference. BTW, all are free!

1. Avidemux
Avidemux is a free and open-source video editing program designed for video editing and video processing. Simple cutting, filtering and encoding, can be fulfilled with it. It is compatible with many video formats such as AVI, DVD compatible MPEG, and Mp4 etc.

Features like WYSIWYG interface, easy conversion from one format to another, filtering effects and a built-in subtitles, make Avidemux outstanding.

Avidemux is available for almost all distributions of Linux that are capable of compiling C++, GTK+ and the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine.

2. Kdenlive
Kdenlive, which is short for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor, is another free and open-source video editor for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies.

With a simple interface, this editor integrates well with the desktop manager, which ensures its high speed and simplicity. The editing process such as adding effects, adding clips, can be done by simply drag-and-drop.

A wide range of video formats are supported by it, as well as many kinds of camcorders and cameras. Advanced features like sepia, grayscale, gamma, inverse color, speed changes, etc. can be found in this program.

3. FFmpeg
As a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data, FFmpeg is widely used in Linux. The fact is that although developed under GNU/Linux, FFmpeg can be compiled under most operating systems, including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, AmigaOS and its heir MorphOS. Most computing platforms and microprocessor instruction set architectures are also supported by it.

The 3 free open-source software above, for editing videos in Linux probably is just for beginners. Many kinds of other video editing tools can be found as well, such as LiVES Video Editor I’ve mentioned in the previous blog. Still too many to list, you can choose one you need accordingly.

Video Editor of Layers of Features-Lives for Linux

LiVES is an advanced video editor that can double as a video jockey (VJ) tool. It is surprisingly powerful. But its interface makes it rather simple to learn. In fact, it has so many feature levels that this app would be right at home as the video editor of choice in any professional film editing studio.

I had almost no trouble putting LiVES to work on a current project before I even finished my initial shakedown of this application. This trial-by-fire test run proved highly successful. I was able to give LiVES a thorough hands-on evaluation while finishing an instructional video for an upcoming presentation.

LiVES took my mind off of technicalities such as formats, frame sizes and frame rates. Instead, it let me focus on importing clips, editing frames and adding audio. I discovered early on in this process that I could record my voice contributions in real time and then edit the soundtrack later.

For those more technically suited, LiVES is frame and sample accurate. You can control it remotely as well as with scripted commands for use as a video server. For those more oriented to editing tasks, LiVES is a top-of-the-line editing tool for mixing and switching clips from the keyboard. It is packed with real-time effects.

Jump-Start Options

Unless you are a purist, you can start LiVES by clicking its menu entry. But more experienced video users with a penchant for avoiding starting and loading files can force-start the process using a terminal command with parameters. For example, type the program's name followed by the file name to run LiVES and have it load a particular video or film clip -- or sets of clips -- at the same time.

You can build on this approach and start the video project file at a specific point. Do this by adding the running time point you want. That command looks like this:

lives [file name] [start time]