This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, without sacrificing functionality. We did the video edit with OpenShot for this episode, and can confirm it gets the job done. What led to the creation of this project, and what’s the direction it’s going? Watch to find out!
- https://github.com/OpenShot
- https://www.openshot.org/cloud-api/
- And that Computerphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS7hXuO2UKE
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Another great open source video editor is shotcut.
I’ve used kdenlive and it does everything that I need (I don’t really need that much). Just to put some AI generated video clips to a time line or edit down meeting videos. And it’s not such a resource hog as Premiere pro.
But more OSS is always better!
I use openshot. Or I have it on my machine…..
Just to straighten out the timeline: Valve has started talking Source on Linux on their blog in 2012 (search term: steamd-penguins) and the Steam Client was released for Linux in 2013.
Another idea for a show if you haven’t done it already. I searched and didn’t see Actual budget – https://actualbudget.org is a great budgeting tool. Different than Firefly iii as it uses the envelopes/zero budget system. It’s a direct and free replacement for YNAB. I believe Mattis would be the person to reach out to to see if him or one of the other bigger contributors would be interested in being on the show. I just use and really like the software.
To understand the difference between the licenses mentioned, think of a community garden. A permissive license (like MIT) is like a garden where anyone can take the seeds and grow them in their own private, locked backyard. A copyleft license (like the GPL) is like a rule stating that if you take seeds from the garden, any new flowers you grow must also be planted in a public space for everyone to enjoy.