Re: [LUG] Video editing in 2020 ...

[Michael Everitt <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/12/19 18:31, mr meowski wrote:
> On 14/12/2019 18:04, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> Anyone here do any video editing with Linux (of-course) ?
>>
>> Just got myself a GoPro and I used OpenShot in the past and am using it 
>> now, but it's as clunky as a clunky thing on my desktop - which is not a 
>> terribly brilliant specification PC by any standards, but it's faster 
>> than what I last used OpenShot on, yet OS seems much much slower and 
>> clunkier.
>>
>> Motherboard is currently an i3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz 
>> with 16GB of RAM and a reasonable SSD (Samsung EVO)
>>
>> I don't mind that it's currently running all 4 cores flat-out and will 
>> take 2 hours to "render" a 25 minute video, it's the interactive stuff 
>> that is annoying me. It clunks. Frame by frame at times. This is during 
>> interactive playback to check the transitions and titles are working.
>>
>> And this "rendering"? The source video is 1080p at 30fps, the output is 
>> also 1080p at 30fps, render speed is 6.8fps, so what.is.it.doing ???
>>
>> Oh, and to put that 25 minute video together with about 5 title screens 
>> combining 5 separate video files (GoPro splits videos into 4GB chunks) 
>> caused my PC to go into a bit of a melt-down and it ran out of RAM and 
>> crashed OpenShot at one point - I am running the latest OpenShot too.
>>
>> So other than buy a new PC (which I will do next year) anyone have any 
>> experience of any other video editors that might perform better at the 
>> interactive stage than OpenShot?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gordon
>>
> I don't do any of that type of video editing but have spent years 
> working heavily with cleaning/processing/encoding/muxing video on Linux 
> (anime fansub scene). My workflow is pretty exclusively shell based 
> interacting directly with x264/x265/avisynth/etc but we end up having 
> similar requirements - powerful multicore hardware, massive system 
> throughput, bleeding edge software and GPU acceleration. You didn't even 
> mention your GPU in your system specs - are you only using the Intel's 
> onboard HD2500?
>
> There's no way around this, your hardware is perfectly fine... for 
> standard computer stuff. For video processing and editing the rules 
> change immediately - those specs are woeful. Give up and buy a new rig.
>
> You might be able to stave off the inevitable upgrade for a while by 
> checking that OpenShot is using GPU acceleration to make things a bit 
> more tolerable but don't expect much from that iGPU. *Nothing* is going 
> to make video NLE acceptable with those specs and rendering with 4 
> threads on a 7 year old budget Intel i3 is not going to make you very happy.
>
> KDEnlive and Shotcut are similar software packages you might like to 
> check out as alternatives to OpenShot but as I understand it (not very 
> well - I'm an encoder, not a video editor) OpenShot is usually 
> considered the pick of the bunch outside of commercial stuff.
>
> Look on the bright side - if you're going to be doing a lot of video 
> post production in the future and already have your eye on a system 
> upgrade now is time to sell it your significant other as a mission 
> critical surely? Apple have just the thing for you!
>
> https://www.apple.com/uk/mac-pro/
>
Inclined to second all that meowski says here.

The other option is to go full-on Pro and get Adobe Premier or whatever it
is, and bite the Windoze bullet. Small consolation is you can probably buy
6 months subscription and not have to sell your car ...

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