My daughter wants to edit footage from roblox for her stuff, yknow, and she’s been using CapCut but it has a size limit which is frustrating.

Is there an easy and fun foss alternative to capcut?

  • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s going to depend very much on the features that your daughter used in capcut and what she will need. If it’s their “AI” tools and tiktok filters, probably not. If someone knows of foss projects that have those I’d love to hear about them!

    If she just needs a video editor that’s free and powerful kdenlive is much simpler than getting into something like davinci resolve (which I would never recommend as a first step unless someone was very passionate about the editing process itself) and will give her the power to do pretty much anything you’d want, outside of proprietary filters or simple one-click tools.

    Openshot seems fairly similar to kdenlive, maybe a little simpler. Check it out if that might work for you. I’ve never used it and can’t compare.

    Another one I have not used but is again MUCH simpler with fewer features but this may be a plus actually is Vidcutter. It looks like what I might imagine a FOSS version of Windows Movie Maker might be. Just drag clips in, cut them, mash them together, export. Simple, but not anything fancy.

    So in order of least experience and desire to learn the software needed to most, I would recommend Vidcutter, then Openshot, then Kdenlive.

    In order of the potential quality and variety of projects possible it’s directly inverse.

    Unless your daughter knows what ACES and REC 709 means then maybe point her toward Davinci.

    • EvilCartyen@feddit.dkOP
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      2 months ago

      Well, she’s 12 and likes to play roblox and do funny voice edits on her videos. As I am sure you can guess, it’s stuff like one-click voice modulation which is the big selling point of CapCut for her. So I am guessing ease of use and the ability to at least create and save audio editing presets and do texts and so on is paramount.

      I agree that this is not really a need that foss tries to fill which is ok. We tried kdenlive but it seems a little advanced for her needs and wants. I tried Vidcutter and it seems a little too simple (feature-wise, the usability was nice).

      We just took a look at ShotCut which seems alright, but I think I am more into it than she is. I hope I can convince her to take a look at it. Thanks!