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Get familiar with these These are some of the free editing tools. More can be found at https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Video; [https://www.blender.org/ Blender] : {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznQweUD9x0|300|right|Basic Video Editing in Blender|frame}}: is simply an awesome program. : It is used mostly for 3-d design and modelling, but it also is quite capable at video editing. : Blender works on both Windows and Linux. Lots of tutorials on YouTube (see right for example) ; [http://www.openshot.org/features/ OpenShot]: {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0nEHxtTjk4|300|right|OpenShot 2.0 reaches beta|frame}}: is another Linux only NLVE, and might be more 'beginner friendly' ; [http://ffmpeg.org/ FFmpeg] [[wp:FFmpeg]] : One of, if not ''the'' most useful tool in the land of multimedia is FFMPEG.; [http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode Transcode] [[wp:Transcode_(software)]] : tool is built using the libavcodec library of FFmpeg.; [http://www.avidemux.org/ Avidemux] [[wp:Avidemux]] ([http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Main_Page wiki]) : Available in three user interfaces (GTK+, QT4 and cli) for all major operating systems. : Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It's graphical user interface looks pretty similar to VirtualDub and most features known from VirtualDub are available too. : Avidemux natively supports a great number of file types, such as AVI, MPEG, VOB, TS, MP4, ASF, OGM, MKV and FLV. At the same time Avidemux natively supports a wide range of Video/Audio formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264/AVC, DV, HuffYUV, MP3, AAC, AC-3 and Vorbis. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Video-DVD or (S)VCD compliant streams can be created with easy-to-use "Auto" wizards. Multi-threading is supported! See also: [http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=126164 FAQ] at doom9; [http://www.pitivi.org/ PiTiVi] : is a video editor designed to be user-friendly and powerful; [http://www.gopchop.org GOPchop] : is a "Graphical MPEG Clipper" - a Linux-based GUI program for removing sections from a video file with the minimum amount of disturbance to the stream. It does this by writing specific "Group of Pictures" (GOP) sections to a new video file. The GOPs will decode correctly and the gaps won't be noticed.; [http://handbrake.fr/ HandBrake] [[mw:HandBrake]] : is a software application that can convert MPEG video (including DVD-Video) into a MPEG-4 video file in .mp4, .avi, .ogm, or .mkv containers.; [http://kinodv.org/ kino] [[wp:Kino_(software)]] : Kino is great for working with the DV format and IEEE 1394 (firewire) interfaces; [http://kdenlive.org/ kdenlive] [[wp:Kdenlive]] : A nice "pro-sumer" (hobbyist, close to professional needs) tool. Kdenlive has instructions on how to make and add a tutorial to their site, including how to create and upload desktop recordings onto vimeo.com http://kdenlive.org/contribution-manual/how-make-video-tutorial{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kkaUd7nBKo|300|right|KDENLiVE|frame}} Currently only runs on Linux (but there are efforts to port it to Mac and Windows). ; [http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php cinelerra] [[wp:Cinelerra]] https://cinelerra-cv.org/: is a significant project, aimed at the professional user. It's both a NLVE and a compositing application. There is a friendly fork called the Community Version (CV) as compared to the original Heroine Warrior (HW) version. === Video Slideshows ===; [http://ffdiaporama.tuxfamily.org/ ffDiaporama] : for making a slideshow video, and it's not bad. However, it simply refused to render my project with a 'encode error'. It is also outdated (last release in 2014) and doesn't install properly on newer Ubuntu. The project itself is a fork of the even less maintained Diaporama; [http://imagination.sourceforge.net/ Imagination] : is a simple tool. Last released in 2011, there is at least a note in 2017 that contributions are welcome. The results weren't bad either. But, I still like the power of OpenShot.

; [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html MPlayer] [[wp:MPlayer]] : is one of the most essential players in the Free Software world. The project works in tandem with FFmpeg. MPlayer software includes the '''Mencoder''' commandline tool; VLC : vlc is cross-platform and wonderful. It even works on your phone.