I hate how capcut has gotten to. Ive tried davcihi resolve but i find it isint as easy as capcut. I want to try a open source video editor for my linux mint laptop that is really free and so easy even a child could learn it.
Im up for suggestions or a change of my mindset.
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I you want open-source then your best choice is either Shotcut or Kdenlive.
Shotcut is one of the simplest editor I’ve ever used…but only if you have simple edits to do, the more you wanna do something less simple the worst it gets.
Kdenlive on the other hand is fine to use in most use cases, but can be a bit tricky to understand at first.
So I always suggest Shotctut if you’re sure you won’t do crazy edits, Kdenlive otherwise, or to just use both if you are unsure.
I think good, truly easy video editors are a dying breed. I loved Windows Live Movie Maker - rest in peace.
These days, I think it’s worth it just to learn a video editor. A lot of the skills transfer; I haven’t used DaVinci before, but I’ve used other major proprietary professional video editors like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro - the skills transfer. Just search how to do a thing you want to do a few times, and you’ll find it gets easier.
As others have said, I think KDEnlive is quite good; I haven’t had a huge amount of stability issues. From what I remember (granted, I may be out of date), OpenShot felt really jank in general; I used Shotcut for a while but had stability issues and UI annoyances. Comparatively, I enjoy KDEnlive.
My son had to edit a video for a project in high school. I installed kdenlive for him and he had no problems figuring it out, and it did a great job.
There is nothing like CapCut for Linux. There’s Resolve, LightWorks, Shotcut, Kdenlive and the less evolved, Openshot. That’s it, all the other editors found online or suggested here are nowhere near completion. Also, none of them have the feel of Capcut with its AI and advanced automatic features. If you want to go open source, I’d suggest you learn to use kdenlive. It’s good enough with manual workarounds, as long as you don’t shoot in 10bit or in RAW or need complex color grading. If you really require automatic AI stuff like in Capcut, stay with Windows/Mac or a tablet. That’s the reality.
KDENlive
I recently tried KDENlive for the first time and had a ton of stability issues. Multiple segfaults, corrupted saves, etc. Is that par for the course of the tool? Seems like it might have core issues with the implementation if a brand new user can crash it.
Which version did you try? I used the 24.12.something version earlier this year for some rather complicated project and it was very stable.
I know they had stability issues before but not with that version. Disclaimer: I did not do video editing since, so I cannot say if the stability issues are back.
I saw https://opencut.app/ recently, could be worth a try.
Other commenter already pointed to shotcut. I second that. I used it for a long time its solid. So is kdenlive. Check em out.
There’s also Shotcut, which is similar to KDENLive
Shortcut is much simpler, in both the good and bad ways.
DaVinci Resolve.
I don’t think there are any other “free” ones. The only other alternatives I can think of is Meta’ s Edits app or Apple’s iMovie.
Meta’ s Edits app
This is a phone app. OP is asking for an app that can run on Linux Mint.
And as I said, such an app doesn’t exist.
Not sure how helpful the downvotes are
They’re not helpful. OP didn’t asked specifically for editors similar to CapCut that are “so easy even a child could learn it.”
