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.

How to Copy DVD Movies?

DVD used as container for some wonderful movies definitely would be perfect for movie lovers as collectors’ edition. Yet, sometimes DVD may be damaged and unreadable. A backup copy for these classic movie DVDs helps.

Besides, traditional way of enjoying DVD movies is out of date nowadays. More and more people tend to watch movies on the go, anytime they want. Thus a copy of DVD at least exists for two reasons: for backup copy and for convenience purposes.

As a perfect “1 click DVD copy” program, Leawo DVD Copy makes it possible for movie fans to enjoy DVD conveniently by copying it to hard disk or DVD player. Worried about some DVDs are being protected? Leawo DVD Copy also solves it in a simple click.

For novice computer users to enjoy DVD movies, the tutorial below shows how it works:

1. Import DVD.
In “Source” drop-down panel, you can load DVD discs, DVD folders and ISO image files according to your need. Here I take DVD folder as an example.

2. Select output target.
In “Target” panel, choose the output destination for the copied DVD files on your computer.

3. Settings.
Set the specifications for the output DVD files. In “Disc type” panel: DVD-5 or DVD-9. In “Copy mode”: Full movie and Main movie mode. In addition, you can also create your own “custom mode”. After setting copy mode, in “Disc label” panel, click “More info” to set “audio selection” and “subtitle selection”. Meanwhile you can preview the DVD video.

After all is set, click the “start” button to copy DVD files.

You can save the copied files and the transfer it to disc, PC folder or ISO image file. Then you don’t worry about breaking your classic DVD movies. And Leawo DVD Copy causes rarely no quality loss. Enjoy your DVD movies!