Top Video Editing Tools in Linux

Launch the Openshot video editor

root@linuxhelp:~# openshot

2. Pitivi

Pitivi is an open source, non-linear video editor for Linux. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU. It is developed by various contributors. Pitivi is designed to be intuitive video editing software that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment.

Features

• It supports simple media editing capabilities such as trimming, snapping, splitting and cutting of clips.
• Audio mixing is supported by curves, visualised as line segments drawn over an audio waveform.
• Audio and video clips can be linked together, and treated as a single clip.

To Install Pitivi video editor

root@linuxhelp:# apt-get install pitivi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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Setting up pitivi (0.94-4) ...
Setting up python3-tk (3.4.3-4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4.1) ...

Now Pitivi video editor is successfully installed.

Launch the Pitivi video editor

root@linuxhelp:# pitivi

3. Avidemux

Avidemux is a free and open-source video editing program designed for video editing and video processing. It is written in C++, and uses either GTK+ or Qt for its user interface.

Features

• It has built-in subtitle processing, both for Optical Character Recognition of DVD subtitles and for rendering hard subtitle.
• Avidemux is capable of non-linear video editing, applying visual effects (called " Filters" by Avidemux) to video, and transcoding video into various formats.

To Install Avidemux video editor

root@linuxhelp# apt-get install avidemux
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  avidemux-common avidemux-plugins-common avidemux-plugins-gtk lame libaften0
  libavidemux0 libfaac0 liblavfile-2.1-0 liblavjpeg-2.1-0 liblavplay-2.1-0
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Setting up mjpegtools (1:2.1.0+debian-3) ...
Setting up mjpegtools-gtk (1:2.1.0+debian-3) ...
Setting up twolame (0.3.13-1.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4.1) ...

Now Avidemux is installed successfully.

Launch the avidemux video editor

root@linuxhelp# avidemux

4. Blender

Blender is a professional free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. Blender' s feature includes 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, video editing and compositing.

Features

• Internal render engine with scanline rendering, indirect lighting, and ambient occlusion that can export in a wide variety of formats.
• Keyframed animation tools including inverse kinematics, armature (skeletal), hook, curve and lattice-based deformations, shape keys (morph target animation), non-linear animation, constraints, and vertex weighting.
• Python scripting for tool creation and prototyping, game logic, importing and/or exporting from other formats, task automation and custom tools.
• Camera and object tracking.

To Install Blender video editor

root@linuxhelp:# apt-get install blender
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Setting up libopenimageio1.5v5 (1.5.17~dfsg0-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libspnav0 (0.2.3-1) ...
Setting up blender (2.74+dfsg0-4build2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4.1) ...

Now the Blender video editor is installed successfully.

Launch the Blender video editor

root@linuxhelp:# blender

5. kdenlive

Kdenlive (KDE Non-Linear Video Editor) is an open-source video editing software based on the MLT Framework and KDE. Kdenlive packages are freely available for Linux and FreeBSD, and the source code is available for Mac OS X under the terms of GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

Features

• Kdenlive has multi-track editing with a timeline and supports an unlimited number of video and audio tracks.
• Tools to create, move, crop and delete video clips, audio clips, text clips and image clips. Configurable keyboard shortcuts and interface layouts.
• Ability to add custom effects and transitions.

To Install Kdenlive video editor

Add Kdenlive package repository, by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:# add-apt-repository ppa:sunab/kdenlive-release
 Unofficial ubuntu packages for the Kdenlive stack
Recommended versions : Kdenlive 15.12.1 + MLT 0.6.0
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gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
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To Install Kdenlive video editor

root@linuxhelp:# apt-get install kdenlive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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Setting up swh-plugins (0.4.15+1-7) ...
Setting up dvgrab (3.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4.1) ...

Now Kdenlive video editor is successfully installed.

Launch the Kdenlive video editor

root@linuxhelp:# kdenlive

6. Lives

LiVES (LiVES Editing System) is a free video editing software and VJ tool, released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. There are binary versions available for most popular GNU/Linux distributions (including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Gentoo, Slackware, Arch Linux and Mandriva). There are also ports for BSD, and it will run under Solaris and IRIX.

Features

• Loading and editing of almost any video format.
• Frame accurate cutting and pasting within and between clips.
• Streaming input and output.
• Support for live firewire and TV card inputs.
• Multiple real time effects are possible during playback (VJ mode), these can also be rendered to frames.
• RFX builder allows rapid prototyping of new effects, transitions, generators, utilities and tools. Custom RFX scripts can be exported to share with others or downloaded and imported. Test scripts are run in a sandbox to allow safe testing of new plugins.

To Install LiVES video editor

root@linuxhelp: # apt-get install lives
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Setting up rtmpdump (2.4+20150115.gita107cef-1build1) ...
Setting up youtube-dl (2015.06.04.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4.1) ...

Now LiVES video editor is successfully installed.

Launch the LiVES video editor tool

root@linuxhelp:#lives

7. Flowblade

Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux, released under GPL 3 license. Flowblade is designed to provide a fast, precise and robust editing experience. It employs a film-data-style insert editing model as workflow. Edits are fine tuned by trimming in and out points of clips or by cutting and deleting parts of clips. Flowblade provides powerful tools to mix and filter video and audio.

Features

• Drag' n' Drop clips on the timeline.
• Clip and compositor parenting with other clips.
• 19 blends. Standard image blend modes like Add, Hardlight and Overlay are available.
• 50+ image filters: color correction, image effects, distorts, alpha manipulation, blur, edge detection, motion effects, freeze frame, etc.
• Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs.
• JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF graphics file types.
• Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs

To Install Flowblade tool

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install flowblade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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The following extra packages will be installed:
  gtk2-engines-pixbuf libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0.
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Setting up libgnomeui-0:amd64 (2.24.5-3) ...
Setting up python-gnome2 (2.28.1+dfsg-1.1) ...
Setting up flowblade (0.14.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4.1) ...

Now Flowblade video editor is successfully installed.

Launch the Flowblade video editor

root@linuxhelp:~# flowblade

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install kino
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Rebuilding /urs/share/applications/bamf-2.index&hellip 
Processing triggers for mime-support  (3.58ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kino  (1.3.4-2.1build2) ...

root@linuxhelp:~# kino