Which free video editor for ubuntu is good?

Question

I'm a beginner with video editing, and mainly what I'm interested in doing at this point is placing clips one after another in order, and then outputting the compilation to a high quality video file of some sort (could be mp4, mkv, avi, doesn't really matter too much).

I've tried Pitivi Video Editor and it's quick and easy to manipulate video clips, which is good. However for a 75 minute video (720p) composed of three 25 minute clips one after another, it is taking more than 4 full hours to render. I have not even used any effects or made adjustments to the file, I'm simply connecting 3 separate clips into one longer clip. 4+ hours to render a 1 hour and 15 minute movie is too slow. Is there a program which can do it faster? I have an i7 quadcore with 6gb of ram here, so my feeling is that the problem is not my hardware.

Finally, when the rendering was done, somehow the combination of 3 440mb files is now a 2.6gb file??? What gives? Also, when I play the file on vlc the slider at the bottom only goes to 55 minutes, but the movie itself is 1 hour 15 minutes, and keeps playing once the slider gets to the end. What gives? On pitivi I had set the video to match my source material, namely 1280x720, and 25 fps. But this is giving me

a) enormous file size, and
b) messed up timer

Please help, or suggest something better? I like when I can just drag and drop my clips onto a rack on the screen, hit render, and then have a video which just 'works'. And is a reasonable size, not double the size of the original material.

Thanks

Thanks.

Answer 1

a good starting point for video editing is avidemux, its has a simple gui,



to add clips together just file > open (or just click open),

navigate to the file you want, click open



the first clip is added



then its file > append,

navigate to the second clip and click open,



this adds the second file to the end of the first, do this with as many clips as you want,



then choose your video codec and audio codec (if the audio codec will not work with the video codec then avidemux will tell you),

choose your container format (avi, mp4, mkv, flv, etc)



now click save and .... well, thats it really



with avidemux you can remove and add audio, cut your vids and a few other things,



coupled with devede you can create iso's and dvd's - which will change the aspect ratio for normal tv,



using your pc media player's settings will change the aspect ratio, so there is no real need to do with an editor if its just for use on a pc,



avidemux is in your software manager,

and it really is worth a nosy, i use it all the time



@ the 3 windows idiots - read the question, its for L-I-N-U-X

Answer 2

The video editor that I recommend and use the most on ubuntu is Kdenlive. It is very intuitive and weel designed. In the terminal of ubuntu type sudo apt-get install kdenlive to get the software. Another software to edit videos on ubuntu is OpenShot, which is relatively new but very easy to use. To get this, use the software center of ubuntu or use the terminal application to get the software.

Answer 3

- Kdenlive

- Openshot

These are good for amateurs. If you need some professional editors then go for "Cinelerra"



Also can you please ask the question in Ubuntu Forum?

http://ubuntuforums.org/

It is much more easier to answer questions there than in yahoo answers. Ubuntu forum is the proper place for asking any kind of question (dumb or smart) related to ubuntu. Thousands of users are there, so you'll get your answer quickly and correctly.

Answer 4

free video editor : i choose windows movie maker. but it only support wmv, avi files, so i also need a video converter to convert various video files like avi, mkv, mp4, mov, flv, rmvb, to wmv for windows movie maker. i choose pchand video converter, it works pretty well for me.

http://www.pc-hand.com/video-converter.html

Answer 5

If you just need to join clips you can directly use ffmpeg from the command line.



For a beginner I would recommend www.openshot.org - it's very easy to use.

This video tutorial gives a short insight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWqH5dBwdKI