Hello,
Any free open source app to edit videos on my phone here ?
Thank sou 🙏🏼
Kdenlive is a good one, and I’ve used that when editing for CoculesNation. Olive, Shotcut, OpenShot, Blender, and DaVinci Resolve (proprietary) seem to be decent options too.
This, Kdenlive is probably the best bet for FOSS and has gone a long way these past years.
From what I tried, Olive was good some 5 years ago, but development was abandoned, and Blender works is really not made for it.
If OP doesn’t care about proprietary, DaVinci Resolve is the best on the list IMO.
That’s why I put “proprietary” after Resolve, since it has a Linux version too.
Although… I didn’t answer properly, as OP wanted it for a phone. I can’t find squat there.
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I had a go testing out what FOSS had to offer in this space a few years ago. I tried KDEnlive, Olive and Blender (well not really, I read about it).
At the time KDEnlive seemed to be everyone’s favourite in this space. As an editor, I can’t say I loved it, and at the time the interface was just plain awful, I looked at some screenshots just before this comment and it looks like it’s come a very long way.
I really liked Olive. At the time it was for some reason restricted to something like 720p exports and weirder still it would ONLY work with h264 MP4 files. That was enough to make it functionally useless which was a shame because it was the first FOSS app I’d tried or looked at for editing that actually seemed to work like one would expect a video editor to work. Maybe I was just set in my ways but when you train on the commercial offerings which all kind of adhere to a sort of unofficial standard way of doing things that coalesced over decades, you really don’t want to reinvent that wheel. From what I could see before this post it looks like it’s only gone from strength to strength because it based on pictures alone it looks really cool. I guess pictures don’t tell you much about what it’s like to use and apparently it used to be very unstable. Hopefully it’s better now.
Blender, from what I read, was a surprisingly popular choice for editing which is baffling to me because, just because you COULD edit in it, doesn’t mean you should. It’s not built for it at all, it’s 3d modelling and animation software, I reckon you’d have an awful time trying to use it for editing and that’s what people at the time said when I saw forum posts asking if you could use it for this purpose but strangely I came across a few who did nonetheless. I can only assume they had extremely basic needs.
Bonus points: (not FOSS) I also tried LightWorks, which at the time was closed source but said they were about to open source. Nobody believed them and indeed they didn’t and to this day haven’t. It’s uhh… fine. If it was FOSS I’d be impressed but given the competition in the commercial market, it didn’t seem worth bothering. Ironic since I believe they were one of the first computer based editing platforms.
Resolve isn’t FOSS but it has a very good very richly featured free version that would likely beat out anything currently offered in the FOSS world, at least that was the case when I was looking in to this around 2017 or so. Worth a mention because it’s really good. Personal if it’s commercial software and a big project I’d probably still use premiere or avid for the editing part and resolve for the rest but the editing gets better ever day rapidly and they’re by far the least scummy company for this kind of software. It’s a one time purchase too. Own it forever.
Great comment all around albeit with maybe a bit outdated yet personal experience.
I would say, don’t underestimate blender, it has a lot of parallel progress going on and while I never used it for video editing, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s pretty powerful in that area.
I’m personally a resolve user and I think it doesn’t have anything to envy from avid or premiere at this stage (you admit yourself it was 8 years since you tried it). It’s incredibly powerful and the free version should get you by for most projects though you might run into a few things where you wish you had the studio version.
My personal experience when I was shopping around before settling on resolve (3/4 years ago) was that all the other FOSS options I tried were mid at best.
Blender works great. Disclaimer: I have no basis for comparison, it’s all I use
Bunny media editor is one option.
I use Bunny. It’s easy to use for basic edits.
Haven’t tried it myself but there’s https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.devhyper.openvideoeditor/
Open Video Editor lets you edit your videos. It supports HDR and allows to apply filters. With this app you also can trim, scale, and rotate your videos or even grayscale them. It is also possible to use this app to extract audio from a video, to convert a HDR video to SDR, or to convert it to a different format.
Depending on what exactly you want to do, termux with ffmpeg might be an option. No GUI, though
I’m sorry but how tf you edit videos without a gui?
I often just want to extract a clip from a lomg video and its great for that. OP just didnt specify anything at all, so its hard to guess whats actually needed.
With the CLI! ;-)
f.e. this would rotate the video 90 degrees:
ffmpeg -i in.mov -vf “transpose=1” out.mov
How do you add a text overlay that follows an object in the video?
I can imagine som LLM coming up with an absolute nonsense step by step guide on how to do it with the terminal.
carefully.
It would definitely be a hassle to combine several clips.
But if all you want to do is cut a small clip from a larger one, or transcode to a different format, it is sufficient.
LaTex tribe expands to video eh?
I first learned computers by sneaking onto campus and borrowing an account to layout a book using Tex. It’s convolute. I can see a certain masochistic thrill in command line video editing.
Oh yh don’t get me wrong ive done transcoding and shortening vids but cutting and colouring sounds a lot of hassle
That’s why I said “depending on what you wanna do” ;)
There’s also Blender.
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