Bunny media editor is one option.
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I use Bunny. It's easy to use for basic edits.
Haven't tried it myself but there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.devhyper.openvideoeditor/
Open Video Editor lets you edit your videos. It supports HDR and allows to apply filters. With this app you also can trim, scale, and rotate your videos or even grayscale them. It is also possible to use this app to extract audio from a video, to convert a HDR video to SDR, or to convert it to a different format.
Blender works great. Disclaimer: I have no basis for comparison, it's all I use
Depending on what exactly you want to do, termux with ffmpeg might be an option. No GUI, though
Iβm sorry but how tf you edit videos without a gui?
I often just want to extract a clip from a lomg video and its great for that. OP just didnt specify anything at all, so its hard to guess whats actually needed.
With the CLI! ;-)
f.e. this would rotate the video 90 degrees:
ffmpeg -i in.mov -vf "transpose=1" out.mov
How do you add a text overlay that follows an object in the video?
I can imagine som LLM coming up with an absolute nonsense step by step guide on how to do it with the terminal.
It would definitely be a hassle to combine several clips.
But if all you want to do is cut a small clip from a larger one, or transcode to a different format, it is sufficient.
Oh yh donβt get me wrong ive done transcoding and shortening vids but cutting and colouring sounds a lot of hassle
That's why I said "depending on what you wanna do" ;)
LaTex tribe expands to video eh?
I first learned computers by sneaking onto campus and borrowing an account to layout a book using Tex. Itβs convolute. I can see a certain masochistic thrill in command line video editing.
Hahah, fair comparison lol
As far as "professional" goes, Kdenlive is miles and miles ahead of other FOSS programs. It's the only one with the feature set and the development commitment to come within shouting distance of it's proprietary competitors. It's not quite there, of course, but it's the only one that gets somewhat close.
If you're not fully militant about it having to be FOSS, Resolve is of course the GOAT on Linux.
I've used Kdenlive for both personal projects and professional ones and it gets the job done admirably. But I've gone to DaVinci resolve when I had projects that needed more complex motion graphics rather than bringing a separate FOSS app into the mix to do it (Natron or synfig depending).
Resolve's strength is that it puts audio, motion graphics, editing and effects all in one program instead of having to use multiple programs.
Can you use resolve for free?
Yes.
There are a couple of limitations in the number of filters/effects you can use. And on Linux, the free version won't edit MP4 natively. But the reality is you shouldn't be editing on MP4s anyway. It's a dreadfully inefficient format for doing actual editing as far as scrubbing through the timeline, etc... MP4 is a final product format. For editing you should be transcoding your clips into something like Apple Pro-res or DNxHD.
When I was editing a movie with lightworks I had something called eyeframe-converter that would convert your video into a low-res editing proxy for ease of use, and then swaps them out with the full quality mpeg2 or whatever the proper editing format was for the full render, and then outputs to H.264 or whatever.
Hopefully resolve can do something like that too?
Resolve does indeed have a proxy mode, as does Kdenlive.
Yes, but they're all really bad. I'm sorry, but 99% of times, you need to do it on a computer. I've tried. All interfaces are shit.
There's also Blender.
ezgif.com
great for turning videos into gifs