> Most people want a video editor to splice and concatenate video files without any loss or transcoding

You can do this with mpv. It's an open source cross platform media player.

For example, here's how I set up a tiny Lua script extension[0] to be able to visually cut videos in an intuitive way. It does it in seconds without re-rendering the video by shelling out to ffmpeg.

Years ago I did the same thing with a shell script CLI tool[1], but mpv's visual aspect makes it so much faster and easier to make clips out of a longer video.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/visually-create-video-clips-w...

[1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/create-video-clips-with-ffmpe...

You have to make a lot of sacrifices for lossless editing, so it’ll probably always be a specialized app or at least a separate tool within an all-purpose NLE. For instance, you’re limited to compatible input streams and you can only cut on specific intervals, depending on encoder settings etc.

I guess an NLE could import clips in a locked mode by default that only supports lossless operations, and you’d have to specifically enable the rest. Could be interesting.

For that kind of functionality, I would always recommend Avidemux[0]. It's quite a light package (which I like), and it allows you to do that and some other useful things too.

[0] http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

LosslessCut is great, but I've had issues with the final export like timing being off, having cut sequence etc. I think it is very particular about encoding/container.

Shotcut is my default video editor, if anyone's trying it on Linux please use their AppImage as it solved most of my headaches when I was using Flatpak version.

Neither open source nor free however.

The "open-x" product name inflation - how did that happen

This is QT? I couldn’t tell it looks so good

They have videos for 3.0, 3.3 and 3.4, maybe check back on their channel in a few days or weeks: https://www.youtube.com/@OpenShotOfficial/videos

AFAIK out of "Record, Edit, and Color", Blender mostly excels at the editing part of video editing. There is no recording at all, and coloring you'd do via the "Post Processing" which can be via nodes or "standard". Coloring is alright, although far cry from Resolve.

If you're already used to the Blender shortcuts though, editing video is a breeze and everything just works as expected, which is really nice. But I wouldn't pick up Blender and its shortcuts just to edit video, then I'd probably go with something more fully meant for video editing.

Like the animated GIF on the landing page?

[1] https://www.openshot.org/

Your loss then. Although I prefer KDEnlive, OpenShot is not a bad video editor.

And I don't think it's a terrible thing for an open source developer to try to earn a few coins.

Its name starts with Open because it's open-source / free software (GNU GPLv3).

FWIW you can just install it from your distro's software repos or as a flatpak[1] and never ever visit the official website.

[1] https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.openshot.OpenShot

Easy to say. What did you accomplish for FOSS?

Typical FOSS hypocrite.

Mad that “free” software has to be paid by someone.

Oh come on, they only have 210 "partners" they give your data to!

Just check the documentation: https://zh.openshot.org/files/user-guide/color.html

In general, DaVinci Resolve on Linux desktops handles Dlog/HDR camera and drone LUTs like a champ (KDE plasma handles HDR10.) When they run the budget speed-editor promos you get the studio license card for free. If you needed gyroflow because your cameraman has a thorazine stomp, there are few completely FOSS options around.

For old or no GPU, there are a few other options:

OpenShot is simple, Shotcut works everywhere, and https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/en can handle >4k footage for free.

Depends how much time you have to dig through manuals. =3

Their homepage features a download button, with all the platforms listed, as the first thing when you open it.

Ok, all the usuals.

TBF, it is on their home screen, https://www.openshot.org/download/

Linux, Mac, Windows, Chrome. $0

That was the first question that popped into my head as well. We’re now in the age of “AI all the things,” so it seems like every app needs an API or CLI of some sort. Everything needs to be machine accessible.

If you publish to platforms like YT, DaVinci Resolve can actually prepare your audio so it remains intact during their compression shenanigans.

I don't know of any FOSS programs that can automatically handle it cleanly. =3

It is not like Cinerella's current release is thirty years old though. You are talking thirty years of development.

Try AdGuard DNS or an adblocker. I didn't see any ads on the site.

I am pretty sure you haven't tried it yourself. I am also pretty sure the software you mention is significantly more expensive or at least not open source.

Which makes me pretty sure yours was a useless comment.

I've had great experienced with it. It's almost certainly not as full-featered as premiere pro, but it runs buttery smooth and robust, while Premiere Pro kept crashing frequently and was a bit tedious to use for simple tasks.

> I am pretty sure, this thing solves half of the problems the above solve, and it does it half-good.

What makes you pretty sure?

It's FLOSS (GPLv3). There are very few free software video editors. Another good one is kdenlive, which a few years back I liked better that OpenShot.

With enough time, love and leadership direction, any art-focused OSS can be the next Blender or Krita :)

"how does this small open source tool developed from the good will of developers in their free time compare to the juggernauts of the fields, with millions in revenues ?"

You know it very well, why do you pretend to ask ?