Why I Switched To Resolve from Kdenlive - Best Video Editor on Linux?

[@TechHut]

A lot has changed since this video was uploaded. Check out my follow-up kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIHchKawgdp9eZo

[@the_new_project]

I will be watching the follow up. Great video. Gi normus file size sounds bad. lol I subscribed. God bless.👍

[@Eyuphuro]

If you are considering buying DaVinci, I would also ask you to donate for kdenlive.

[@bhargavjitbhuyan9394]

But they will take LONG........................................................................ TIME time to do anything. It still doesn't have good gpu support. It has less features than davinci resolve and it is less professional. Unlike gimp, I couldn't find many plugins for kdenlive.

[@linko994]

Yeah. I've been using Resolve on Windows for a while now, and it's absolutely great. On Windows though you have far better codec support in the free version. So I tried Resolve on POP OS, but it was instantly a no go for me.. For now I'm still editing my videos in Windows.

[@Stopinvadingmyhardware]

It’s a huge jump in useability.

[@kaimemes]

Since you do a lot of cutting, I think that you could also try setting up keyboard shortcuts for ripple delete backwards and forwards - that makes editing so much quicker

[@smythsonianisback4190]

*more quickly

[@yak28]

Just getting it to work is so much hassle? Should've tried Shotcut first... Maybe enough people paying $300 for FOSS video editors would fix those bugs faster. Problem is that most FOSS projects aren't run in a sustainable way that lets them improve. They just want to do it in their spare time and rely on donations which most users don't give. Unless FOSS starts asking users to pay up for extra premium features, templates, etc I don't see the situation getting fixed. Why is FOSS developers requiring payment treated as blasphemy? Don't they and their kids need to eat? Don't we want them to work full time on the projects and make them superior to proprietary alternatives?

[@rickybobby7310]

Good job !! yes it would be interesting to see the installation of davinci resolve

[@bruggor10]

I really tried to replicate your kdenlive issues, but no matter what, I was not able to. Possibly those bugs have been fixed (running version 21.12). Yes, resolve runs a little better due to gpu acceleration implemented properly, but the hassle converting everything in the first place eliminates that advantage for me.. both are great, but I will stick to kdenlive for now..

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

Well you had me convinced to switch until you got to the 50gb files for a 10 min video and you have to pay $300 bucks to overcome that. Then you hit me with the hardware thing. While I so use Arch I have 5 year junk from eBay that is will most likely won't use either... :-( With that said I see spending that if you have the hardware to run it and it is mission critical software. I don't do much editing so No, I don't need this even if my hardware was good enough... :-) thanks for the video! LLAP

[@andrejbartulin]

Well, Kdenlive has lot of missing features (auto tracking, better border between clips, experimental GPU rendering and playback) but Kdenlive is more lightweight than DaVinci Resolve and takes less space. Kdenlive in my opinion is better for basic video editing and Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro for professional editing

[@MohsinExperiments]

Davinci Resolve's free version do not support GPU Accelerated Rendering. But Kdenlive do support GPU Acceleration for rendering videos.

[@MyTechDesk]

Now try to use chroma key over a green screen. In Kdenlive it's done in 5 seconds. With Davinci, well... it took me so long to learn the whole process again and again (you need to make a node and then manipulate it which for me is hell). The chroma key is the main reason why I didn't move to Davinci. And I LOVE Kdenlive (except for its crashes, but it taught me to use the ctrl-s every 10 secs).

[@rizkimaliki]

I edit my videos on blender with power sequencer

[@angelrivera8013]

Good to know ☺️

[@BongoBaggins]

Now that really is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut 😂

[@gold9994]

I knew Resolve because I was the one in charge of color grading in my college (some promo videos, short movies, etc.) with premiere as the main editor. However, Resolve 16 changed it all, it suddenly became a good video editor, and it is much more stable than premiere (don't get me wrong, premiere is still better overall, especially with the aftereffect, but I'm not that professional anyway.)

[@andyakecheta3137]

Kdenlive is great. Personally I wanted something more professional when it came to video editing. Lightworkers was great though I thought I'd give DaVinci a go.

[@berinloritsch]

Looking at the commercial version of Davinci Resolve Studio, you also get the Speed Editor console for that $295 USD cost. It's not just the software, and the dedicated control surface can make editing that much more enjoyable. I see that as a much better value than the Adobe Premier package, and entirely justifiable.

[@df3yt]

The speed editor can be a hunk of junk. When ever I want to edit my battery is flat as there is no off button, so you end up using it wired. Clearly designed by an apple user.

[@amalirfan]

You should try blender as a video editor (as an experiment), good ui docs and customizable themes

[@coolbean9880]

that seems unnecessarily painful

[@oxigenhalogen337]

No way.

[@isaacosgood1579]

I hate the way blender does video editing. I used it once for color grading before I switched to davinci resolve and it was pure pain.

[@anugrahjames276]

What's your thought about Shotcut Video Editor and why don't you use it

[@AmericanPatriots87]

Although it's free, I don't think there is anything wrong with expecting the product to work as advertised. Bugs and features are different. Open source doesn't exempt it from criticism.

[@travisaugustine7264]

1st question I have about your Kdenlive experience is how has it been for you regarding hardware rendering? I have struggled to get anything even close to reasonable performance out of it using my Radeon 5500xt. Every video I render I end up having to do in software (CPU only). I also have experienced a lot of the glitches you describe. I might have to go the Resolve route and just transcode my video files on the fly to something the free version will support (I really hate to do that though...just more time that I have to take in video production).

[@AshnSilvercorp]

I liked davinci on windows, but on Linux, they gutted the free version, and request I download a proprietary gpu driver so they can lock it... Also, no h.264 codecs unless you pay them $300/y Not doing that.

[@thessalonikiosmusv]

As for the Davinci Resolve shortcut (.desktop entry file) solution, I think you can you can edit the .desktop file, on the Exec field, fill with `sh -c 'progl /opt/resolve/bin/resolve'`. Which the idea is to make that shortcut to run that command instead of simply calling the resolve binary. The line would be Exec=sh -c 'progl /opt/resolve/bin/resolve' The desktop entry files are usually on `/usr/share/applications` or `~/.local/share/applications`. Like 4 hours ago I just found this solution to make my shortcuts run with a custom paramenter and environment variables.

[@bhargavjitbhuyan9394]

Once you update it, it will reset.

[@awyeagames]

Very interesting video! I was thinking about using resolve, but, honestly, seeing this just makes me want to stick with kdenlive.

[@jayebrnrd]

Rendering in kdenlive for me is a pain especially for videos over 15 minutes. I found it so frustrating to spend so much time editing and when it’s finally done I can’t render it.

[@Skygge.]

I'd like to switch to Resolve, but the need to convert everything to big MOV files annoys me more than bugs in KDEnlive at this moment.

[@Blueye555]

Is this still necessary?

[@nDmykART]

usually if i want slide i'd just set key frame and move it using the transform tool you used, pretty easy and not really messy though im nearly 10 month late so it might not have been viable back then

[@tux_the_astronaut]

So far I think blender has been the best video editor for me it runs in almost anything and it has lots of features and runs well

[@defectivenull]

does it support h264 videos off the bat?

[@ne0ne0]

Same here!

[@FlorinArjocu]

Except it is more complicated to use, it is quite a steep learning curve.

[@etivathanh]

Thank you for the great video! Could you share your small .sh text files for converting mkv and mp4 files for DaVinci?

[@sgky2k]

B L E N D E R

[@notatruestatement]

hAH!!!, Look towards the left side at 14:50, I bet you did not see that.

[@diegomarquez3293]

Open soyce is a development to get free work model free software is a movement

[@ytravi]

Please make the davinci guide.. I cannot remove my windows dual boot (would love to) because of this. Waiting for it..

[@dragonballjiujitsu]

After using final cut pro everything else sucks hard, including adobe. Video and photo editing has always sucked on Linux.

[@jomo2483]

All the big boys use Avid. It's on another level

[@Phoenixwizard77]

Warts and all I still prefer kdenlive. It works out of the box, and you can use any format you like. Plus the price is right. Thanks for the video

[@KuruGDI]

Since (unlike Kdenlive) Resolve does not work on Linux out of the box, I don't think it's really good choice for the average user. In my opinion Resolve can never be the best NLE on Linux as long as you can't at least click-to-open the program.

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

There are much better formats than DNXHR on Resolve for Linux. I haven't tested it, but it looks like AV1 is supported. Not ideal, and also incredibly stupid considering they could literally just decode H264 using FFMPEG, but oh well.

[@JuanCAraujoS]

I'd love to have a full tutorial on running Resolve on Linux. I can live with limited gaming if I'm switching permanently... but I can't make a living without resolve. By the way. Instead of spending the 300 USD on a Resolve Studio licence. Buy the hardware, the "Speed editor" device works wonders on the 'Cut' tab and will seppr-up your workflow A LOT. It costs the same as the licence alone AND comes with a licence... so two for the price of one.

[@Mark6O9]

I prefer Resolve over Kden but the issues with Davinci on Linux is just there's so much from the Windoes version that's missing from the Linux version. Why must a Natively Linux made program need to be so buggy and broken on Linux? Answer is it was made on Fedora a corpo made distro that's basically spyware now

[@Volker-Dirr]

I am novice and new to video editing. I am only using kdenlive. I never noticed such an audio glitch in my videos nor an transformation glitch (But I do simply effects only). A long list of know bugs doesn't automatically mean that the software is bad. If you watch the bug list of AMD and Intel CPUs or if you watch the bug list of gcc or clang compiler (all 4 are running on billions of computers every day), you will see that those bug lists also contains several 100 bugs. Just because many commercial software tools hide their bug lists from the public it doesn't mean that they don't exists. If you know that you sadly do (sometimes) bugs (a few black seconds in the video, ...) and you noticed it after you finally rendered the video, then your workflow is wrong. You should watch and check your video BEFORE rendering. If you only render, because you have a quality team/guy that checks the video, then an very easy variant is to render it for im in lower resolution and with "faster" settings. So they can check for wrong sentences, wrong cuts, ...

[@Dgeigerd]

Purchased the Studio Version with the Speed Editor. Even though i used vegas pro for 11 Years i really like davinci resolve. Still can't understand how someone prefer premiere pro over vegas pro.

[@silentparrot1087]

Can I get heart I hope you will give me like always 😄

[@Gameerz]

Couple of tips, instead of browsing all the effects panel, you have a star, use it and will add your favorite effect to favorites, ez to locate and ez to implement, also you don't need a 10 bit depth, with a 8-bit your more than enough to make it to youtube btw what distro are you using?

[@ajiteshkumar]

Hi! In the free version of Resolve, it also supports MP4 files. In OBS Studio to output an MP4 go to Settings > Output > Set recording format to MP4

[@hex697]

Bit late, but this isn't true on linux.

[@JPEaglesandKatz]

Davinci free is borderline unusable without proper codec support.. nuff said.... Been using it for years on windows and it rocks.. I'm so sad it doesn't on linux.

[@Rotceev]

what about shotcut, cinelerra, openshot, blender, or trying other kdenlive versions?

[@Dayta]

im almost sorry i just watched the video until like 4 minutes and im already done watching ... but dont take this the wrong way its not just a good video its a very good video and im very thankful for it and im gonna let you know why. first of all backround information i was using amiga for a long time .. sure enough pc came along and slowly took over .. was ms dos or later winows better ? no it never was even to this day but unfortunatly the software availability and hardware compatibility forced me into using windows at some point. so here i was aware of linux and the problem with linux always was software avaiability .. sure a os that basicly runs "nothing" like linux did for like 30 years can run smoothly. but here we are in the future now and im looking again at linux if it has developed a tiny bit to at least give the option to switch or do some thing with a computer that does what i want him to or better said .. .. dont does stuff that i dont want it to do like windows updating stuff without me "wanting" it to do anything stuff like that not to mention runing all that stuff that i dont even use. .. now working on videos i of course also have looked at adobe premiere from time to time and all i can say is till this day premiere is one of the worse video editing software ive ever had to endure .. there is like .. the lists of things that premiere is not capable of is like unlimited and im not going into details why that is or what they are lets just leave it at that .. now im watching your video here and right at the beginning you mention that kdenlive is pretty much like premiere .. and there i was smiling all over my face because .. here we go thats ONE software i dont even have to check if its worth anything if the first point worth mentioning is that its like premiere its like thank you i dont have to look at it at all ever again .. one more software elimited from my list of stuff i gotta check if its any good. not to mention the next thing you pull up is the list of known things that dont work .. yeah that aaudio glitch i was like .. .. why is that. just for example sony vegas it was possible to throw everything at it and it did what to expect i can throw in odd formats like a video with 40000 pixel in height and 1 pixel in width and it can handle that .. premiere doesnt just for the record .. in any case i dont have to check kdenlive anymore and for that easy elimination of one "less" software i gotta checkout i thank you alot .. im gonna let the rest of the video now run to keep the youtube algo happy :) just thought it was worth mentioning why the actualy video for me was just like 4 minutes and i was basicly done thanks to your prority of stuff you mentioned.

[@shaddow1dog]

Why are you not using Blender? It is far better than Resolve or anything that is out there and it is still free with no issues about what operating system you are using.

[@yak28]

Can you do everything in Blender that you'd be able to do in dedicated video editors like Shotcut?

[@ne0ne0]

@@yak28 That, and more.

[@KillerFliege]

Why not blender for video editing

[@couldja]

Please do the AMD resolve video. In the past I did get it to work with an AMD graphics card by luck mainly. And you are right if you have a Nvidia card it just works with no hassle.

[@_bbie]

I use kdenlive only to do quick, simple edits in my slow laptop. Much faster than resolve. Other than that, i would use resolve.

[@Tech_with_Loco]

The .mov file size is a no go for me, will stick with Kdenlive, have Win 10 and Linux Mint versions, prefer Mint.

[@CaracuSC]

We need a DaVinci Resolve 2024 guide for AMD gpu's on Linux...not having Hardware acceleration on open source drivers is a pain...and setting it up is so much trouble. I'm dual booting just for that, otherwise I would've already kissed Windows good bye.

[@MelbyrnesPhotography-qi6ox]

I went from Resolve to Kdenlive because I was sick of forking out for a new computer every 12 months when resolve would refuse to recognise my GPU. The software is free but the computer has to be upgraded at a cost to keep up with the processing speed.

[@claudiuclaudiu]

Yeahhh....great soft (I'm talking for Windows) great fetures, lots of support....buut the hardware requirements.....boy!!.. comparing with kdenlive.....and then....when it starts to get stucked "rendering".....and doing this 10 times in a row.....I don't know what to say about....

[@BotraxDiaz]

Davinci Resolve works on Nobara distro out of the box with RX580. Cannot make it run on any other distro.

[@gasun1274]

i've always wanted to use resolve but it seems that everyone has problems with getting the executable to even run let alone fix issues when it does run.

[@dragonstone6594]

I think Blackmagic added MKV support in 17.3 if I'm not mistaken.

[@Novous]

i've submitted MULTIPLE bug repots complete with project files and video evidence. Basically the most you could ever hope anyone would ever file a bug report with. A TOTAL OF ZERO have ever been fixed. I gave up. Why should I put my time into helping you fix your software if you don't even care about your own software?

[@nicholascureton933]

Resolve work fine with proprietary Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. My gpu is RTX 2060s. Audio recording didn't work. But I use audacity.

[@Fabio53443]

Have you even tried Olive video Editor?

[@RealRoboKnight]

In my opinion, I don't really like the Clip Monitor... and I can't get Speech To Text working

[@StephenSE9]

09:58 Request for the video "to get the software working" would be very interesting and fun to watch therefore yes please, Brandon 😊

[@gogudelagaze1585]

Image sequences (aka gifs) do not loop. The only way to mimic looping is to manually copy/paste that clip. If you have a short gif/long video.. good luck, lmao. This is a 5(five!) year old bug :| I have no words.

[@brisbackvideos]

Tried Switching to Davinci. Video files wll not load. Over rated useless pile of shit.

[@partyflockske]

i got Resolve with AMD R290 to work on Zorin OS 16 with this code : kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4SshomZpbKCoqM to find out that Resolve does not open MP4 files recorded on my phone :/ it handles them as audio files. so back to other video programs unfortunately

[@chishopastik]

Unfortunately, it was too complicated to install and run Resolve in my linux environment so I even didn't try it.

[@littlejoes69]

using kdenlive i can not figure out for the life of me how to use several of the same video clips without it looking seamless. how the heck do I make this work how i expect it to

[@yasinmus4559]

I other words, it probably will run smoothly in Manjaro too, right? I'm using RX6700 XT and Ryzen 5 5600x CPU btw.

[@jiujitsumexico]

I can't open davinci resolve in Linux!! I've been trying to switch from kdnlive to resolve for a while, but I tried in zorin, ubuntu mate and linux mint, in different computers, and davinci simply does not open

[@subhamdutta2920]

Please help me bro. As a freelancer use in editing & designing find me linux mint / linux others , Adobe alternative is best or not .& If any file send my costomer who use windows. my file support him? . please bro describe some things think.???

[@SergiiStarodubtsev]

For me Resolve even doesn't work on Linux. Ubuntu 12.04. Asked my friend on another distribution to try, same thing..

[@FoodiesGoodiesNTravel]

One of the reasons I cannot go full linux is because of this. Video editing in this day and age still sucks on linux big time.

[@SaltyNotSweat]

I used Vegas, PP, resolve, olive, Blender and Kdenlive. KL has been on linux, my most used editor. I noticed some bugs where I try to import a file in the timeline and other media in the timeline would disappear. So I might go back to vse or olive. I don't mind paying for software but I don't want to pay for something that isn't going to work for me in the long run. Might give it a shot again and see how it is.

[@TheMikeatronEnray]

i don't like davinci resolve and switched from davinci to kdenlive and think its better but i respect your opinon

[@OazadOMER]

Hello Sir, are you using Davinci on Linux or Windows ,if linux can you please tell us how are you editing green screen like subscribe, is the linux version don't included despill Best regards

[@akinbodeog]

How is the audio clipping bug still a thing? I stopped using Kdenlive for the same bug like a decade ago. Wtf?!?

[@jimiarisandi]

ryzen wae beat intel. w 11 not support old. only amd support linux driver. so linux on ryzen will perfect using kde things.

[@BR7Fan71]

Does resolve have trouble with amd CPU and GPU? If so,do you have any tips to help make it less painful?

[@JackInTheShop]

I guess I will stick with Kdenlive. I am not good at making videos anyway. Not ready to pay $300.00 for DaVinci. Don't really want to encode my files before I encode my files.

[@JackInTheShop]

@Omar Aladham I DLed a free ver a while back. Never installed it. I remember hearing something about the file format of the free ver making it harder to use, longer to edit or something. I can't remember what it was. I am using KDenLive and Sony Vegas now.

[@BinodTechSansar]

as a beginner filmora 11 is best, but not support on Linux

[@aliendog]

hey when I import video in resolve the sound is not there only videos, any tips to resolve this. If I import mp3 audio separately it works. use zorin Linux.

[@thestoicpath44]

I don't have all this problems with Kdenlive and maybe because I work on Windows.

[@noneovyerbusiness4909]

I couldn't find even one video editor to work on Ubuntu. They all had bugs that made them useless.

[@clocloholdo]

Hello TechHut. Je suis sur Ubuntu et fais du montage avec ShotCut. J'ai cherché à installer DaVinci Resolve sur mon ordinateur équipé d'un processeur AMD Athlon et d'une carte graphique AMD Radeon, DaVinci se lance puis m'affiche un message "Mode de traitement GPU non pris en charge" et quitte. J'ai fais des recherches pour résoudre le truc mais sans succès pour l'instant. Donc j'ai trouvé KdenLive que je découvre tout juste. Merci pour ces tutos 👍

[@sarasandoval771]

Well, so much for me editing on Linux. I didn’t understand a thing you said.😐

[@saidjonrko]

Couldn't install Davinchi on pop OS , but on windows working fine.

[@chiboreache]

this is madness...

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

3:00 that jb person has either been busy breaking KDEnlive or not getting anything done !

[@zparihar]

I'm impressed at how prolific you are with your videos. As a long time Linux user and distro hopper ( 22 years ) is recommend you just an LTS distro (i.e. Kubuntu for example which is somewhat older libraries but tested heavily) so that you don't experience these glitches.

[@nilfernandez2873]

I have davinci resole in Linux and works amazing

[@germanoutdoors7096]

Unfortunatly Davinci does not run on both of my machines :(

[@TexpatOTG]

Sure wish the DaVinci install and supported linux distribution was more "universal" ... I use my laptop for other things and don't want to run the supported version of linux. Wish they'd just do an appimage for install. Good show

[@abbasnosrat8898]

Nice content. It would be awesome if u could post an installation tutorial for ubuntu or pop os using amd gpus. Huge fan btw. I'm a nubi linux user and ur channel helped me a lot.

[@outofspace8667]

Use the LTS Version. AMD has only support for them so far if younger interested in using AMD pro drivers

[@stephencampbell9384]

run that on Dos, Linux is no p;lace for closed malware

[@cinemaipswich4636]

To deliver in non-Apple OS, it is best to render out as a H264 or H265 to compress the output size. Both are industry standards.

[@nonnativeme]

I miss Windows Media Editor after watching this. 😁

[@Chubbable]

Have you reviewed Lightworks?

[@johnnovotny5074]

Coming from Premiere, thanks for this video.

[@defectivenull]

not supporting h264 off the bat is a big no no

[@kirkjones9639]

For some reason, possibly hardware, I don't have your issues with Kdenlive. I have found over the years that Linux and software that runs on it, are easier using AMD and STI graphics cards. Currently mine is a AMD Ryzen 9, STI card, 128 Gb SDRAM, and a 2 Tb Seagate Firecuda SSD. So far Kdenlive has worked flawlessly out of the gate.

[@joshmcdzz6925]

As someone who's used only linux on his machine, I had to give in a year ago to getting a desktop with a GPU for windows.. I have used opensource software for my personal stuff but realized they can't stand the rigors and pressure of business needs (Photoshop vs Gimp, Rawtherapee vs LR, Blender video editor vs DaVinci resolve etc ).. Windows to the rescue although I still use my linux laptop for personal stuff where Gimp/rawtherapee lives and was considering Kdenlive as my multiple attempts to get resolve running on my laptop without a GPU ( just an integrated cpu/gpu ) failed. So running 2 computers with a KVM switch : a good ole linux laptop and a windows desktop with a GTX 3070.. I think that's one of the compromise we make using linux