KDEnLive 0.7.5 was released a few days ago, so I installed it on my Ubuntu machine to see how the app has been progressed since the last time I tried it. KDEnLive is the most actively developed, and easiest to use Linux video editor. Its UI resembles Sony Vegas in many ways; if you know how to use Vegas, you won't have trouble with KDEnLive.
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Despite the criticism, I think the review is quite positive overall. Of course it is difficult for a Free video editor to compete with commercial ones, but it is great to see that despite its problems this app is heading in the right direction to become the video editor that Linux/OSS needs. The advanced features can be added along the way, but it would be good if they could work first in making it stable enough for "normal" users to be able to do simple editing with their holidays' footage without any crashes. At that point, and with a little polishing along the way, it could be a 1.0 release and it could be shipped by distributions by default (except the patented formats), which would be a great step for the Linux desktop.
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Despite the criticism, I think the review is quite positive overall. Of course it is difficult for a Free video editor to compete with commercial ones, but it is great to see that despite its problems this app is heading in the right direction to become the video editor that Linux/OSS needs. The advanced features can be added along the way, but it would be good if they could work first in making it stable enough for "normal" users to be able to do simple editing with their holidays' footage without any crashes. At that point, and with a little polishing along the way, it could be a 1.0 release and it could be shipped by distributions by default (except the patented formats), which would be a great step for the Linux desktop.