Apologies if this sounds silly but i was wondering if openshot or shotcut are good video editors especially for someone starting out on video editing for the first time, the type of videos i might plan on making is either general gaming videos or YTPs (hopefully y’all know what that is).
I have also considered kdenlive and davinci resolve aswell (i will not discuss davinci since that ain’t open source).
Out of curiosity, i was also wondering y’alls thoughts on shotcut or openshot (and probably kdenlive).
I’ll be waiting for responses, Thanks!
I would recommend to try them out. This is the best method to know how well it works on your hardware and environment, and if you like it. All should be available and easy to install, besides Davinci, where a special dance and some weird setups are required and not all hardware work well. At least that’s what I am told from YouTubers. They love Davinci, but it can be problematic in Linux and its not even Open Source.
Kdenlive is pretty good. According to those users its not at the professional and quality level of Davinci, but for a hobby user it should be enough. And it improved a lot in the last couple years and is no longer a crash fest. Openshot is simple program. I used it many years before, it was crashy, but looks like from reports it works well and is quite simple. Shotcut is also beloved, but I never used it. Looks like something in between of Openshot and Kdenlive.
Also depending on the desktop environment, something like Kdenlive could pull ton of dependencies if you don’t have KDE already. I would test them through Flatpak.
Oh! KDE is mentioned in this comment, i actually do use KDE! I use EndeavourOS (i don’t want to install arch the manual way or use archinstall… btw) with KDE Plasma and it’s one of the best desktop environments i ever used… i still like cinnamon which is the first desktop environment i used but after i tried out Plasma, i never went back. i might try Kdenlive first because of the fact that i do use KDE Plasma.
I might still test out both shotcut and openshot to decide which one i like more if that makes sense, thank you for your reply!