Why I switched back to Windows for video editing(it wasn't a happy decision for me)

I made lots of board repair videos splitting video between a microscope camera and the regular camera using Linux during 2014 and early 2015. IT IS POSSIBLE! It is just a miserable uphill pain in the ass.

[dexiPL]

Linux is good if you have time playing with it, researching your problems and fixing them by yourself. But when you get older you just don't have time for that crap. I am a big fan of Linux and I wish them the best. At this point of my life I just want things to work. Therefore, I have Windows and so far, so good.

[derstreber]

Blender has a built in video editor, it has its own issues, but it seems more stable than kdenlive. Blender does have a slight learning curve, but I think it is worth it to give it a go and learn it.

[Epro]

I used to be hardcore Linux, but I just don't have the time to fuck with things. Time is money.

[harrytsang]

davinci resolve supports Linux and it works

[mrlazda]

For Linux there is Autodesk Smoke (Smoke Advanced 2014 is latest Linux version) which is best video editing software money can buy. I think that latest version of standalone Smoke are only for Mac and Linux version is sold only as part of Flame Premium.
Only there is one little problem and that is price, Flame Premium starts at over $150.000 (Smoke fro Mac is over $10.000) and that is second cheapest Autodesk software for video/movie post-production (most expensive is Inferno with popular price "if you ask you can't afford it", but in reality it is around $500.000).

[zeldamaniac]

The problem with fixing things with Linux (and even worse, linux-based special-use software) is that there's such a small pool of users that no one comes up with easy-for-noob-fixes to anything but the most obvious problems.

I mean, I'm a linux noob, and am generally demotivated, but here's my workflow for googling when software doesn't work:

1) Mac: Read a 4-page thread on apple discussions on why I am wrong. Eventually find some weird workaround on my own.
2) Linux: Go down a rabbit hole trying to apply a solution that someone did on a completely different OS version. Paste a bunch of commands I don't really understand. Give up. Try again in 3 years. Repeat.
3) Windows: Immediately find 3rd party or commercial software that does more or less exactly what I want to do.

[kirishima]

This is true of pretty much ALL non trivial linux applications. It doesn't matter how good the OS if the software isn't up to par.

If some company where to sell a polished up linux distro with good commercial software support, it would be viable. But this is a platform where everything is supposed to be free. No software developer can afford to build to a truly great application on a platform like that, let alone something as complex as a NLE.

[myownsite]

Kdenlive is in rapid development - Arch's more up-to-date Kdenlive works a lot better already.

[JoshuaNicoll]

Me too, I use Linux too, I use it since my servers are also linux. I use Lightworks video editor.

[EposVox]

I pay for a Creative Cloud subscription. I've said time and time again, I would pay again for a Linux port, but

[perpetualjon]

I feel you. I've wanted to jump ship for years now but I'm locked into CAD software that simply won't run anywhere but Windows.

[JeanYvesB]

USE It's a professional software, used in many Hollywood films. It works in Linux, and it's FREE!!!

[JarrodsTech]

This is a main reason I'm sticking with Windows over Linux on the desktop - video creation. Linux on the desktop has a few random quirks like this, hopefully it improves in the future. In terms of servers though, Linux hands down every single time.

[SignedAdam]

lots of free video editing programs for windows, good ones too! cant recall names, because i paid out for a power director 14 in the end, its easy to use @Louis

[tonnylins]

Yeah, try the newer version of Fedora when it hit the servers, enable rpmfusion and install kdenlive or openshot, they have worked hard to fix their stuff and since fedora is very good with updates, you'll be with the latest and greatest from them.

[konraduser]

Yes Louis,
you can try Davinci Resolve, they support linux

[larrymaxwell]

If adobe suite developed for linux, windows would shrivel up and die.

[NFM]

What you said about freedom and how free time is another type of freedom has made me less stubborn with fixing stuff when something less in line with my principles will get the job done. I'm using Windows 10 as my main OS for the moment and until it craps out on me, I will keep using it.

[dryerzinia]

KDenLive was driving me nuts for a few months with those idiotic crashes a while ago but then there was an update and now its been real stable for me.

[patentlypaul]

I use kdenlive and it works perfectly fine for me. These bugs probably got fixed since the release of Ubuntu 16.04 recently.
EDIT: LInux runs best on Intel hardware.