Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: Mountain ManAs someone who has worked in the professional video production world for over two-decades, I can say with some authority that Kdenlive is a very power and professional level video editing tool that easily rivals alternatives like Avid and Premier.

Really? I'm no true professional but I've edited a lot of videos as a freelancer, once even edited a series broadcast on national television here in my country. So I have *some* background.

And I have to say, after Bitwig (daw) and Steam came to Linux the the one area left where I really miss the Windows alternatives is on video editing. Especially Sony Vegas, who ended up being my tool of choice. The workflow is just so very much better, and the tools/plugins so much more powerful and intuitive.

For example, I haven't found a way to apply effects (colour correction etc) on the entire video channel - only on the individual clips! I would guess it IS possible, but god damn how well they've hidden it. Or how to apply compression and EQ on the audio master bus? These things are *basic* features!

And especially larger projects with several channels of video and sound are so much more efficient and stable on the other editing suites, they run so much smoother. The stuttering and lags are way too prominent on KDEnlive - it really struggle at times. A wonder it doesn't crash more often, really!

But yes, KDEnlive is the solution for me too on Linux, cause the alternatives are so remarkably much worse. So here's hoping they get closer up to par with this new version!

You can reduce the stutters by knocking down the playback resolution.

Admittedly, I've not used Kdenlive for large, complex projects, but for the "quick and dirty" stuff I've done at home, it has every feature I expect to find in a non-linear video editor, and having used a number of video editing software packages over the years (multiple iterations of Avid, Soft Image, Final Cut Pro, and Premier Pro), I was able to pretty quickly find my way around Kdenlive's interface.

However, to your point, like any free and open source piece of software, it does have certain limitations and deficiencies, and many are fairly easy to work around -- such as no adjustment layer that can be applied to a whole timeline; instead, you can create a color effect that you like, save it, and then easily apply it to other clips.

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Great graphics. Great performance in Linux. And that's where the praise ends. Hopefully they tune the driving model, because at the moment, the cars feel way too light and don't grip the road, like the wheels are rolling over the mud instead of digging into it. Power sliding is inordinately difficult, and one wrong twitch can suddenly bounce you off the track and into the invisible barrier that immediately ends the race.

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As someone who has worked in the professional video production world for over two-decades, I can say with some authority that Kdenlive is a very powerful and professional level video editing tool that easily rivals alternatives like Avid and Premier.

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A "free" "expansion". For a game that is still in "early access" beta.

:neutral:

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Great game. I think I still have a .deb installer tucked away somewhere on my hard drive, but it's broken now and throws up an error if try to run it, so Osmos exists mostly as a memory for me. When I bought it many years ago, it came with a free album of ambient music by Mat Jarvis called Sounds of Earth that I still enjoy listening to.

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I'll stick with Breath of the Wild.

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Nice to see Aspyr is still providing support for some of their Linux games.

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Quoting: barottoEye of the Beholder I & II are timeless classics.
I remember playing the first one on a 286 @ 10MHz with 1MB of RAM back in the day.
I like that the GOG page suggests a 1.8GHz CPU with 1GB RAM to play it today...:tongue:

Probably because of DOS Box.

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I have 65 games in my GoG library, and I think I only bought like 10 of them. All the rest have been give aways.

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If Linux keeps rising at this rate, it will become the majority desktop operating system in only 5 years.

Seems like I've heard that one before...

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