Top 10 Free Video Editors for Ubuntu Linux
I earlier wrote about Top 5 BitTorrent Clients for Ubuntu Linux, 7 Awesome 3D Graphic Design Applications for Linux and 23 Free Ubuntu Linux Login Screens. Today I’m going to write about some of the best Video editing tools for Ubuntu Linux because Linux itself doesn’t offer any default or built-in video editor application but there are tens of third party software for Linux you can use to add effects to your videos and do a lot more. On the top of my head I have
AvideMUX is one of the most widely used Video application for Ubuntu Linux. It allows you to easily cut, filter and encode your tasks. It supports all the major video formats including AVI, DVD compatible MPEGfiles, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.
These tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.
Download Avidemux
CinePaint is an easy to use Ubuntu Video application that has a support for 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels of deep paint. It offers High Dynamic Range that allows images to go brighter than white.
It is often used to retouch feature films and in pro photography. It can also be used for motion picture for frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal, render repair, background plates, and painting 3D model textures.
A Video editor and compositor for Ubuntu Linux that offers 3 major features including capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy.
Download CineLerra
Kino features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capturing videos, VTR control and recording back to the camera. It allows you to load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list.
Also, Kino can export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Still frame import and export uses gdk-pixbuf, which has support for BMG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, SVG, Targa, TIFF, and XPM. MP3 requires lame. Ogg Vorbis requires oggenc. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 require mjpegtools or ffmpeg. MPEG-4 requires ffmpeg.
Key features include
- Capturing
- Editing
- Export
- special effects
- video filters
- Video transitions
- Audio filters and
- Audio Transitions
Download Kine
A video editor with the ability to edit with flexibility and speed. Jahshaka allows you to create effect in real time and animate with unlimited features.
Download Jahshaka
With Slideshow Creator and dvd-slideshow you can transform your pictures in a beautiful dvd-quality slide show rich of fascinating effects like ken burns, pan and animated transitions. Adding a musical soundtrack too you will have a really cool result!
Key features include
- Slideshow Time and Audio Time
- Music Prelistening in every Row
- Subwindow Zooming Preview
- Direct Create slide show and Preview
- Selection only Create and preview
Download Slideshow Creator
LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non linear editing in one application. It allows you to start editing and making your videos right away without having to worry about formats, frame sizes and framerates.
It offers tons of features and offers you to record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away as a new clip.
Download LiVES
Vivia is a video editing program for Linux and Windows that offers very user-friendly editing of DV video materia. It allows you to arrange your clips for your movie using TimeLine feature. ou can add a clip to your movie by dragging a file from the Files window onto the Timeline. You can edit a clip directly on the Timeline with the tools that appear when a clip is selected.
Key features include
- Efficient and easy editing of clips and transitions
- “Multi-cam” edit mode: support for natural editing of scenes that were recorded by multiple cameras simultaneously, as is typical in music videos and interviews
- Support for multiple “scenes” in a single movie project
Download Vivia
KDEnlive
KDEnlive is a free open source video editor for Linux that is also available for various desktop managers in Linux. It supports a wide variety of file formats, as well as a wide range of camcorders and cameras.
Just like LiVES, it allows multitrack editing of unlimited video and audio tracks.
Download KDEnlive
FFmpeg is another open source video editor for Linux that allows you to record, convert and stream audio and video. FFmped is a command line tool that is composed of a collection of open-source libraries. With these sets of libraries, one can easily record, convert and stream digital audio/video in numerous formats.
Download FFmpeg
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I’m an editor and nothing on Linux matches professional software on any level. And believe me, I love love love Linux and so want there to be a good, free video editing software. Everything I’ve tried on Linux has been unintuitive and buggy. I’m hoping Adobe brings its creative suite over to Linux one day.
Great! not everyone needs all the Adobe’s After Effects resources anyway.
A software to be considered good do not need to be the best on planet. And for most people a simple software with less and more efective resources may be better. Not everyone is a professional.
Just to remember: most of these software are available to others operating systems, like MS Windows too.
@Bob C:
Your opinions are entirely ill-informed.
“[...] nothing on Linux matches professional software on any level.” and then you go on to reference Adobe. This is laughable. Do you know what an online is? Are you aware that in feature film production the percentage of offline editing sits at around 60/40 split between Avid and FCP? Are you also aware that neither of those apps are used to output motion picture footage? Indeed, one of the most significant online tools in the professional industry exists almost exclusively on Linux. Yes, it is _not_ free, but please don’t cloud the situation with your ill-informed speculation. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5561833
With regard to the original article, I’d forward Blender as possibly the best hobby grade editor available as Free Software. It is stable and works wonderfully. Coupled with the nodal compositor, you can achieve quite amazing results. No ripple edits, L edits, etc., but those shortcomings could very well be addressed in the future.
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Hi bob.
I wouldn’t doubt that you are a prof. But why do I then se more reports on Linux having the largest marketshare in Hollywod?
So many choices, so little that are actually usable.
Kdenlive is the only one I would bother with. Even that is not mature software yet. It is the only one that I would consider functional.
Kino is also great but very, very basic.
The rest have horrible interfaces, missing functionality or stability problems.
I have tried them all.
One can probably also get the Hollywood software they use on Linux… but that’ll be outside the price range of many.
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don’t forget about pitivi. http://www.pitivi.org Its gstreamer based and shows a _lot_ of promise.
Also there is the emerging web based open source video editors kaltura.com, moviemasher.com etc. Firefox 3.1 video tag should help open up that space as well :)
Why are these all claimed to be Ubuntu specific? Don’t get me wrong, I have not installed each of these packages but I’m sure you could get them to run on most any Linux distro…Not only Ubuntu!
Check out editing/compositing with Blender (for Linux, Mac, Windows, …): http://indiworks.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/editing-with-blender-ubuntu-screenshots-workflow-from-my-notic-nastic-live-clip/
Nice list.
Another one I know of (but never trie yet) is Open Movie Editor – http://www.openmovieeditor.org/. Check it out!
I think its great someone came up with a list, but I wish they would have ranked the software from best to worst. I am also an Adobe guru but would love to find a free editor for linux.
Great list and description. What do you think is the best editor to use if I want to capture a short segment (say 2-5 minutes) from a DVD movie that I own so I can play it from my desktop.
Thanks
Thanks for the list. I have tried many of them and am currently using KDEnlive (with some experimentation with FFmpeg and Blender). My needs are fairly basic, add music and be able to fade from one scene to another. What I am looking for is a way to colour correct my underwater videos (I use the GIMP for my pictures). Does anyone know how this can be accomplished for video?
Nice post! Kudos. Also, some of them are included on this list (which also has extra apps like 2D/3D graphic, comics and other multimedia): http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/
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“I wish they would have ranked the software from best to worst”
My take on this as someone who wants to do semi pro editing.
1) Kdenlive
2) Kino
3) Blender
4) Cinepaint
5) Cinelerra
6) Pitivi
7) Lives
8) Avidemux
9) Slideshow creator
10) Vivia
11) Jahshaka
In time Lumiera will develop into a great bit of software.
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Recommendations?
I have no problems paying for software as long as it runs well on Ubuntu,is easy to install and easy to use.
I have a bunch of VHS tapes I have watched in the past by wiring an old VRC to analog/digital converter and connecting that to a TV card on my computer.
I would like a piece of software that will let me watch the VHS, capture the content,trim the content down, and then put it on to a DVD.
Any recommendations?
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Nice list. But I think you need to drop the “Ubuntu” in your headline. These are nowhere near Ubuntu-exclusive.
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The above video editors are cool!
I tried most of them but “open shot” impressed me the most it has a bundle of more advantages than lot others….
Anyone wanting to install “openshot” can simply go to
–’Applications’->’Accessories’->’Terminal’
–In the terminal type the following
–sudo apt-get install openshot
–And there you are with the best editor
Regards,
EvNix
For those wanting a comparable (actually better) video editor to Movie Maker, KdenLive fits the bill greatly.
Please suggest me how to make video in Ubuntu using snap shots or slides. Is there any video on you tube?
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Nice, didn’t realize there were so many options.