by Funkygoby » 2019-04-18 20:20
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One day I decided to do do a video clip. I had 2 camera footage and an audio recording of the same scene. My rig was a core2duo with 2Go RAM and I was doing 1080p so ...
I tried everything I could find under the sun. I remember very bad experiences with pitivi, openshot, cinesomething I am not sure I tried kdenlive. I don't remember the details, one was crashing, another didn't show the audio waveform properly (so no A/V sync possible), another was slow. Shitty experience, pretty much.
Then I saw someone using blender on youtube. Blender is similar to Maya, 3DSMax and its main purpose is 3D modeling/rendering but it also comes with a working, potent video editor. As I had played with it already I decided to explore the video editing module.
It is said that the interface is strange. I would say it is different but once it clicks, it is cool!
Given my limited, crappy, experience with other video editing tools I will obviously tell you that blender is superior to everything else.
You should be able to apply filters I guess. Blender is scriptable with Python also so if you want to automate things, this might be interesting.
In the end, I converted videos to 320p, did the editing using those for performance reasons. Before rendering, I just replaced the 320p folder with the 1080p one so blender managed to render my final file in 1080p. Success!
The only limitations I encountered was the poor cam job I had to deal with and my own creativity. You can find short movies entirely created from scratch with blender so I guess the video editing module is worth considering.