Top 5 Linux Video Editing Free Download Software

Linux is an open source operating system which is similar to other operating systems like Windows, MAC OS X. It is popular mainly because it is free. It is a simple user interface and provides simple functionality which makes it more popular. The attractive factor of this OS is it never get attacked by virus, so it is totally free from virus and this open sources is free to use its software’s and tools.

This Operating system supports all sorts of software like video software, audio software, photo editing software, designing and development related software and many more. Apart from that it is known for its clear viewing, editing, organizing, and creating graphics.

Here we will discuss about the best free video editing software similar to – Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple iMovie, Final Cut Pro or Microsoft Movie Maker under Linux Desktop operating system. Most Linux based editing software can now be downloaded free of charge from the Internet. You also need a video capture card and a FireWire connection to capture digital video from a DV camera. The 5 Linux Video Editing Software are-

Cinelerra

Cinelerra is one of the most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux. It is a prosumer video editing software designed for the GNU/Linux operating system It includes a video compositing engine, allowing the user to perform common compositing operations such as keying and mattes. It initially performs three things- capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy.

It has a high -fidelity audio and video. It can process the audio using 64 bits of precision, hence can work in both RGBA and YUVA color spaces and has a 16-bit integer representation. . It is resolution and frame rate-independent; therefore it can support video of any speed and size.
VirtualDub

Virtualdub is a video capturing video processing utility for Microsoft Windows written by Avery Lee. It consists of an open source package that is regularly updated by its author. The function of this virtualdub is to process linear video streams, including filtering and recompression. VirtualDub was originally created for the purpose of compressing anime videos of Sailor Moon. It operates on AVI files and requires that appropriate video and audio codecs are installed.

It can be used to delete segments of a video file, append new segments, or reorder existing segments. However, segments of different files cannot be mixed, and no transition effects can be applied. The video files created are stored from a series of bitmaps or targas. Just like other video software, this also needs a fast PC.

 

Avidemux

Avidemux is a free, open source, video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It is slim and easy using editor Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many files types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codes. You can also perform operations like merge and split on the videos downloaded from youtube.

You can directly transfers the video to their devices such as Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Optical Disc, Sony play station etc. The task performed can also be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. This software is available for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X etc. It has advanced scripting available for it both in its GUI and command line modes. It also supports a non-project system just like VirtualDub, where users can simply create all of their configurations and save the video directly without making a project file.
Kdenlive

It is one of the powerful multi-track video editors, including most recent video technologies. It is a non-linear video editor for KDE and provides all project management and editing tools while relying on a separate rendering program to perform the editing operations.

It is planned to support transitions, effects, multiple file formats, and full project and asset management. This software supports all sorts of formats such as FFmpeg (such as QuickTime, AVI, WMV, MPEG, and Flash Video), and also supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios for both PAL, NTSC and various HD standards, including HDV. Video can also be exported to DV devices, or written to a DVD with chapters and a simple menu. This software packages are freely available for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2 or so on.
Kino

Kino is an open source, non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. You can upload multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list. It consist of excellent features to capture DV video through IEEE-1394, allow detailed editing and transition effect for both video and audio, VTR control, and recording back to the camera.

It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV encoding. The Still frame import and export uses gdk-pixbuf, which has support for BMG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, SVG, Targa, TIFF, and XPM. It has Multi-language supported User Interface, Extensible project metadata system, integrated publishing to the http://blip.tv/ web video sharing site, Fine-grain thumbnail viewer, Fast and frame-accurate navigation/scrubbing etc.

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