>>2888858I know that Blender is inefficient in terms of processing for normal video editing. The only real alternative on Linux seems to be Cinerella and that shit is unintuitive as fuck. The interface is horrible. I used to use KDEnlive, but that is pretty amateur.
I like using compositing in blender (combined with the NLE interface, because blender can be used as an NLE as well) because it allows the greatest freedom of control.
When doing everything directly in NLE mode, blender is way faster (2.5 frames rendered per second) but also has less freedom and a suboptimal interface.
Generally I like blender because it's free, easy to learn and very powerful. You have to do more for special effects but technically, you can do ANY special effects if you know how and you want to invest the extra processing time.
Of all Video editing software I used (and I used a lot, especially Premiere Pro for college) I liked camtasia the most. Cinerella and Sony vegas were the worst. For some reason I can't get into the entire "multiple windows" deal and they keyboard bindings are all wrong. In blender any subwindow can be turned into any other by choosing so from a dropdown menu.
BUt I'd rather invest that money into equipment than shackling myself to a software environment.
I am tempted to dualboot windows to try out daVinci. Its Linux version doesn't run on Ubuntu.
