How to get back into vidding, LizBee style

[lizbee]

Open Adobe Premiere. Realise you have no idea how to use it.

Watch lots of tutorials. Realise you still have no idea.

Realise it won't open avi files properly. Realise it needs an AviSynth script.

Read lots about AviSynth. Realise you have no idea how any of this works.

Fondly remember nice, straightforward vidding Ubuntu vidding software.

Read more about Premiere and AvySynth.

Throw tantrum. Install VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and nice, straightforward vidding software.

Post to DW, wait for next thing to go wrong.

Comments

[lizbee]

I use Kdenlive -- it's not as complicated as some of the others, and made for a smooth transition from Windows Movie Maker to non-linear vidding.

[dueltastic]

I found Pitivi just not ready for use when I tried it, and IIRC, OpenShot didn't let me export after I'd edited, and Cinelerra and the editor built into Blender both crashed. Kdenlive was, I think, the one where I couldn't break off little clips of things, which made using a clip from a movie pretty unwieldy, with two hours in the timeline for a 10-second clip, but it was the one that looked like it was closest to being the right thing. Maybe I should give it another shot, especially now that I've got a better machine to run it on.

[beccatoria]

Ah! You can do the breaking off little clips things in Kdenlive, it's just stupidly not explained clearly. You have to choose in and out points in the clip monitor, then physically click on the video in the clip monitor and drag it down to the timeline. Which...why would anyone know to do that? It's like they put in a shortcut but no actual dedicated button. But yes you can do it - http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/quickstart-guide/first-project/dragging-clips-timeline

(I use Cinelerra because I like the advanced features, but yeah, it's a helluva learning curve and not that stable, and Kdenlive actually has an active development community so it'll probably get there eventually.)

Pitivi is still in super early mode and I've never tried Blender. I had similar export problems with OpenShot.

Anyway, um, thread-hijacking out! ;)