Video editors on Linux

published Jul 28, 2010 06:23   by admin ( last modified Jul 28, 2010 06:23 )

Here is a list of Video editors available on Linux. I have tried them all, save Lombard. Will try to summarize more experiences at a later time.   

My use case was extracting individual three second long moves from salsa dance performances. I tried three Linux based video editors for this: AviDemux LiVES, Cinelerra and Pitivi. The best by far for this particular application were AviDemux and  LiVES.

Updated 2012-02-23 with AviDemux.

  • AviDemux, with preprocessing in ffmpeg is the best for my uses. Clean interface and fast. You must preprocess with e.g. ffmpeg for scrubbing to work if you have keyframes in your video. Read more here on how to do that.
  • Cinelerra (Cinelerra for Grandma)
  • LiVES The second best one I have found for extracting short video clips from a video.
  • Kdenlive Has a lot of filters you can apply to video. Unsure of how cutting works.
  • Pitivi
  • Lombard Very recent contribution, supports only basic editing at this point in time, according to web site.