A video editing experience with FOSS tools.

It is the final year at college and our class took one of the four houses at college. We had to make a house video within a short period of time. Everyone was on tight schedule and ended up making a video using Sony Vegas. I did not touch the software. The only contribution from me was cutting videos for the house video, which i did with kdenlive.

Later 2day I decided to give a try mixing stuffs completely with FOSS tools. I ended up with a few tools, pitivi, kdenlive, openshot. I must say the usability of all of them suck. Seriously, the usability of tools should is one factor why FOSS doesn’t hit the mass public. Sony Vegas on the other had was something very simple for a newbie and hence my friends made the video fast at their first trial with the software. I’m thinking on working on kdenlive to increase usability a bit, hoping that coding goes easy.

The complete set of softwares I used include : GIMP, OpenShot, kdenlive, pitivi

Here is the video.