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I'm looking for a program that can cut video, adjust exposure levels, color correct, stabilize and encode.
I've never done anything like this before, so ease of use would be great. But if there's an established standard program (like Gimp for photos), I'll learn it. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In addition to all of the open source options that have been offered, Davinci Resolve runs well on Linux and has all of the above features (and many, many more). It's also a buy once keep forever situation rather than a subscription since they make their real money on hardware. OSS it isn't, but it's incredibly powerful, has an extensive free (as in beer) edition and beats the hell out of paying a monthly fee.

[–] wolre@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

As for DaVinci Resolve, installation can be a bit weird if you don't happen to run one of the officially supported Distros. Because of that, the easiest way to run it is probably via DistroBox, Michael Horn made a great tutorial about that: https://youtu.be/wmRiZQ9IZfc

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are there distro-specific issues? I've always just downloaded the zip and run the installer with no issues.

[–] BlueKey@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Personal example: Fedora (38 - 39). Resolve uses libs which depends on some older versions of a lib, which they don't ship in the installer.
So I had to replace the depending libs so that Resolve can run with Fedoras more recent libs.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Good to know. Thanks.

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] wolre@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It wouldn't be trivial to package such a big app as a flatpak (or snap for that matter) and also maintain it properly, so as long as the original developers don't do the work I think it is unlikely to happen. But for a tool that I'm going to be using a lot in the future I think it makes sense to invest the time once to install it, even if it's a bit more complicated.

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