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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

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.

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.)

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

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).

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?

I edit my videos on blender with power sequencer

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.

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

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

glad to see your channel growth...keep going brother..i always appreciate your work and videos also i do recommend your videos to my friends

Have you even tried Olive video Editor?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Why not blender for video editing

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences. You can do the slide effect through transition only in kdenlive. This won't give you the glitch.

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

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.

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

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

I have davinci resole in Linux and works amazing

Hi, nice video!!! I saw a little wierd effect at 14:50. When your cam slide out on the right bottom corner, there is something transparent in the left bottom 😉

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You also don't have to transcode the video. You can just extract the audio portion and make them flac files along side the original files this is WAY faster.

Olive Release build (0.1.0) appimage with the Community Effects Pack.

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 👍

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

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.

Yes please to show setting for DaVinci

Great video!

Just subscribed to your Channel. Are these problems still persistent with your KDENLive use and sesions? Still seeing those black lines?

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

DaVinci only works for me if I have one specific GPU driver installed. Linux gets confused as too which GPU to use.

Thank You, bro!

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

Kdenlive from the beginning has been held together with bubblegum and string. But if you get it to work, don't touch it --and it will be great, faster than alternatives. But it requires dozens of little tricks to make it work well, and the tricks depend on your particular setup, so you need to invest a full weekend to configure it to your liking and without crashes, and after that hope no update breaks it again.

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.

I have been enjoying Openshot.

One thing to point out. The missing codecs on the free version is Linux only. Windows and macOS allow you to use h.264/mp4 on the free version. My only guess as to why is probably because of what you mentioned before about license fees. Microsoft and Apple probably pays for those so BlackMagic can implement them, but for us Linux users, we have to deal with the burden because it's a free and open source system. Don't take my word for it, I'm just speculating lol

Have you reviewed Lightworks?

B L E N D E R

Da Vinci is an industry leader not only on Linux

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

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

Were you able to import your mp4 files and replay them directly in DaVinci Resolve without having to re-encode them? My problem is, that my mp4 videos (recorded on a GoPro Hero Black 11) just won't play in DaVinci, neither video nor audio, unless I transcode them with ffmpeg into a .mov This is tiredsome and also costs additional disk space (making them sometimes even twice as large as the original mp4 files). Is this a common problem, or am I missing some specific drivers on my Arch Linux? It seems to work out of the box with Kdenlive though....and also VLC and all other installed videoplayers have no problem playing them. Could this be related to the free version of DaVinci, since it might be missing some important codecs for mp4 playback? Thank you for the video, it has helped me understand DaVinci a lot :)

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

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

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

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

can't DaVinci Resolve load Vapoursynth scripts? maybe that way you don't have to convert them to lossy every time you want to work on a video.

Wish they packaged it as a Flatpak.

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

Can you share the link for the wallpaper?

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

I use fusion all the time! Don't be scared, embrace its power!

Coming from Premiere, thanks for this video.

Have u tried olive??

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

Please upload a video for installing davinci resolve...........

So, the developers of KdenLive will change this? Fix all of these problems?

Those file sizes are an absolute deal breaker lol...

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.

I don't really understand why Resolve don't work directly and completely under Debian? A stable environment on a stable machine. Our thoughts ?

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

Can i install in Mint

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

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