Linux Video Editing

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/kdenlive/statuses/113065234059443464

#Kdenlive 24.08 is out packed with nifty new features, enhancements, and quality-of-life improvements, specially for Effects and Transitions.

#Kdenlive 24.08 is out packed with nifty new features, enhancements, and quality-of-life improvements, specially for Effects and Transitions.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/09/kdenlive-24-08-0-released/

#kde #videoediting @kde

I edited this video with Pikimov! It worked well, and was easy to use once I had chromium up and running.

This post is a follow up to vid.stab.

For general camera wobble it corrects nicely, though if the shaking is moderate the correction leads to some nauseating wiggling effect in the resulting file. I'm still looking for a way to fix that.

Here's the current shell script I use on the footage:

#!/bin/bash

ARG_COUNT=$#
INPUT=$1
VID="${INPUT%.*}"
EXT="${INPUT##*.}"

if [ $ARG_COUNT -ne 1 ]
then
	echo "Usage: ./stabilize.sh input.MP4"
	exit 1
fi

ffmpeg -i "$VID.$EXT" -vf vidstabdetect=shakiness=10 -f null -
ffmpeg -i "$VID.$EXT" -vf vidstabtransform=smoothing=30:zoom=5:crop=black "$VID.stab10_z5.$EXT"
#ffmpeg -i "$VID.stab.$EXT" -filter:v scale=1920:-1 -c:a copy "$VID.stab.small.$EXT"

I recently came across this guide for stabilizing video with ffmpeg, and it's been awesome to use!

I haven't even had a chance to try this out yet, but it looks interesting as a workaround for Linux users who are OK using Chrome/Chromium.

This is one of the things that hangs people up moving from Adobe. In my experience, it works ok but you need to sometimes actually mess around with the algorithms to get the results you want. This tutorial is a decent explanation.

If you like video editing on Linux, you may want to check out SDF's own Peertube!