Good video editor

[americast]

I cant get any good video editor for my Opensuse 12.2. Kdenlive, lombard, pitivi are all good-for-nothing softwares. they dont even support avi. Can anyone tell me a good editor which supports avi or mpg or mp4?

Thanx...

[caf4926]

Depends what you require

software.opensuse.org:

[tsu2]

If you want a powerful video editor just short of commercial products, a leading candidate should be openshot.

IMO,
TSU

[me3064]

I cant get any good video editor for my Opensuse 12.2. Kdenlive, lombard, pitivi are all good-for-nothing softwares. they dont even support avi. Can anyone tell me a good editor which supports avi or mpg or mp4?

Thanx...

kdenlive should be installed from the packman repos as should the corresponding media codecs else you might run into issues but otherwise it handles avi and every other conceivable media format very very well! kdenlive is the most powerful and feature complete linux video editor. You could try lightworks or blender video editor but just give kdenlive a chance.

We can help with your troubleshooting!

[oldcpu]

I cant get any good video editor for my Opensuse 12.2. Kdenlive ... they dont even support avi.

kdenlive does support various codecs inside the avi wrapper. But note avi is a wrapper so stating something does not support avi is truely a meaningless statement if the general wrapper construct is supported, which it IS supported by kdenlive.

I recommend kdenlive.

Note there is a kdenlive support forum here which will help you with kdenlive issues: Forums | Kdenlive

[americast]

For me, kdenlive could not support avi (dv) files. I too want to use kdenlive as what i can see from the interface, it has a huge lot of facilities. Can you state a good converter to convert mp4 into avi or any other kdenlive supported format? I had previously used Allok mpeg4 converter, which is an exe file but runs smoothly with wine.

[americast]

I reinstalled kdenlive, this time from packman. While starting kdenlive after installation, the config wizard started and in the 'Checking MLT Engine' window, an error was shown in the list (with a cross sign) and this was written beside it:

Avformat module (FFmpeg)

I think it means ffmpeg is malfunctioning. I have ffmpeg installed.


Thanx...
Limping towards kdenlive..

[JJMT]

For me, kdenlive could not support avi (dv) files. I too want to use kdenlive as what i can see from the interface, it has a huge lot of facilities. Can you state a good converter to convert mp4 into avi or any other kdenlive supported format? I had previously used Allok mpeg4 converter, which is an exe file but runs smoothly with wine.

I'm not entirely sure why you prefer your videos to be in an avi container, but you can copy audio and video streams like this:

ffmpeg -i name.mp4 -vcodec copy -sameq -acodec copy name.avi

If your "name" has spaces, put quotes around it like this:

ffmpeg -i "name.mp4" -vcodec copy -sameq -acodec copy "name.avi"

It's one more step, but an easy one.

[americast]

I'm not entirely sure why you prefer your videos to be in an avi container, but you can copy audio and video streams like this:

ffmpeg -i name.mp4 -vcodec copy -sameq -acodec copy name.avi

If your "name" has spaces, put quotes around it like this:

ffmpeg -i "name.mp4" -vcodec copy -sameq -acodec copy "name.avi"

It's one more step, but an easy one.

When I run the command you gave, I am getting this error:

ffmpeg version 1.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jan 30 2013 18:42:50 with gcc 4.7 (SUSE Linux)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --shlibdir=/usr/lib --disable-stripping --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-avfilter --disable-static --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-shared --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libtheora --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libvpx --enable-gpl --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
  libavutil      52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
  libavcodec     54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
  libavformat    54. 59.106 / 54. 59.106
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 32.100 /  3. 32.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Option 'sameq' was removed. If you are looking for an option to preserve the quality (which is not what -sameq was for), use -qscale 0 or an equivalent quality factor option.
Failed to set value '1' for option 'sameq'
Error parsing global options: Invalid argument

Thanx...

[americast]

When I run the command you gave, I am getting this error:

ffmpeg version 1.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jan 30 2013 18:42:50 with gcc 4.7 (SUSE Linux)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --shlibdir=/usr/lib --disable-stripping --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-avfilter --disable-static --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-shared --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libtheora --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libvpx --enable-gpl --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
  libavutil      52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
  libavcodec     54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
  libavformat    54. 59.106 / 54. 59.106
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 32.100 /  3. 32.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
Option 'sameq' was removed. If you are looking for an option to preserve the quality (which is not what -sameq was for), use -qscale 0 or an equivalent quality factor option.
Failed to set value '1' for option 'sameq'
Error parsing global options: Invalid argument

Thanx...

I tried using qscale 0 instead of sameq. It worked, but the avi file thus formed is still not getting detected by kdenlive. When I try to insert it, kdenlive says:

Clip is invalid, will be removed from project:

Thanx...