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What are the best proprietary/paid apps for linux? (lemdro.id)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And why do you use them?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

KDEnLive is a good "editor" for simpler projects, but not a good video editing "suite". It comes nowhere near Resolve's color grading ability, or even audio editing ability these days. And it has no compositing ability at all. In fact, except Natron on Linux (that gets updated once every 2-3 years with just bug fixes and not many features), there's nothing about compositing. Blender's compositing is unusable btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is it really too hard to import audio tracks after editing in audacity. I'm glad kdenlive doesn't waste time trying to be an audio editor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You misunderstand the word "editing" in this case. It's not a matter of adding a few plugins and cutting audio. It's a matter of having the tools to normalize human voice in a way that it's expected in a movie, or to have automation about it, or envelopes that tracks the volume and fixes it for you. That's the stuff that neither audacity nor kdenlive has, because they're very specific to the movie industry. They have more generic plugins instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Where can I learn more about how human voice is normalized for movies? I've noticed a big difference in the audio of old movies and some shows, and modern high-budget movies. But I can never pinpoint the difference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's mostly due to the difference in recording equipment rather than editing.