Best video editor for Ubuntu Linux Systems. Download and install these best video editing softwares for Ubuntu.
Shotcut Video Editor
Shotcut Video Editor is a powerful video editing software that supports oodles of audio and video formats including many image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF as well as image sequences. You don’t have to import anything as it supports native editing and multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project. For Linux Systems, Shotcut Video Editor supports screen capture including background capture to capture a Shotcut session, webcam capture and audio capture. For those who are looking for streaming features, Shotcut Video Editor supports network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP).
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Shotcut Video Editor on Ubuntu Linux Systems:
sudo apt update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:haraldhv/shotcut
sudo apt update
sudo apt install shotcut
Avidemux
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
Install Avidemux on Ubuntu by running the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc)-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install avidemux2.6-qt
Lightworks
Lightworks has the widest native format support available in any professional NLE. MXF, Quicktime and AVI containers, with almost every format you can think of importing natively without the need for transcoding, from ProRes, Avid DNxHD, AVC-Intra, DVCPRO HD, RED R3D, DPX, AVCHD (with AC3 audio), H.264, XDCAM EX / HD 422, all on the same timeline in realtime.
It also brings dedicated web export (MPEG4/H.264). Using this one can share movies with colleagues, friends and family with our super-quick export to MPEG4/H.264. The video files produced are ready-made for YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and Instagram. Lightworks has a realtime GPU pipeline architecture, designed from the ground up to deal with compositing and effects, such as primary and secondary colour correction, blurs, mattes and masks including over 100 inbuilt effect presets – completely independent of the source media.
Download DEB – Lightworks
Download RPM – Lightworks
OpenShot Video Editor
OpenShot is another popular video editor or Ubuntu that can be used to create video films. OpenShot supports almost every know formats and codecs. OpenShot’s features: 3D animation, curve-based camera motion, compositing, transitions, audio mixing, and vector titles.
Run the following commands in Terminal to install OpenShot Video Editor on Ubuntu Linux Systems:
sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install openshot-qt
Kdenlive Video Editor
Kdenlive, the KDE Non-Linear Video Editor is an open source video editor built on Qt and the KDE Frameworks libraries. It brings multi-track video editing and can work on almost any audio and video formats directly without the need to convert or re-encode your clips. It also brings proxy editing and auto-backup. Kdenlive supports 3-point editing and Timeline effect rendering. Users can insert or overwrite a timeline region with a clip region and delete or lift timeline regions. It pre-renders parts of the timeline so that they can be played in realtime. And you can continue working on other parts of the timeline while Kdenlive is working in the background for you.
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Kdenlive Video Editor on Ubuntu Linux Systems:
sudo apt update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kdenlive
Blender Video Editor
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers.
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Blender Video Editor on Ubuntu Linux Systems:
sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender
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