I’m no professional video editor but for the couple occasions that I got to edit videos for friends and colleagues, I absolutely loved using kdenlive and was really surprised by the features on offer here!

Before the first project, I had only used Adobe premiere (quite a few years ago) and - though people having professional requirements will probably disagree here - for a basic editing workflow there were no things I was missing. Everything just works, and quite well even on my aging machine.

So with this little comment I want to inspire any passer-by on the lookout for video editing software to give it a try, you may just find an amazing hidden gem!

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Well, I wouldn't call Kdenlive a hidden gem. It's well known and one of the most used video editing software on Linux.

I also want to encourage others to try it out, who had bad experience in the past. I use Kdenlive for years (mostly memes, from time to time some more complex videos) and in the past it was incredibly unstable and was crashing constantly. But overall it's pretty stable now. I miss a bit of extra features and such which I saw from other editors, but that shouldn't be a big deal. The core editing set is good to me.