Linux Video Editing Software Programs

Quick Overview

There is a number of notable Linux video editing software programs available to download and use for free of charge, most of them are open source released under GNU General Public License. The software ranges from simple editing tasks (including cutting, splitting, trimming, filtering, titling, and adding effects and transitions) to professional video editing works. Kdenlive: a video editing tool for video amateurs as well as advanced users from basic video editing to semi-professional work. LiVES: a non-linear editing in one professional application which is used by both professional VJ’s and video editors. Cinelerra: a popular Linux video editing solution for capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video. Kino: a multilingual video editor available in Danish, Swedish, French, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German, Hungarian, and Norwegian. Avidemux: a cross platform video editing program including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux and BSD. You can choose based on your needs, all of them are free.

This page lists free video editing software programs for Linux which available on the internet today. For more helpful information in choosing them, see what other people rating as well as voting for their favorite one. As an experience user, you can also contribute by doing rating, voting and commenting on each program you have ever used.

Linux Video Editing Software Ratings

I also encourage everyone (including you) who ever have experience of using Linux video editing software before, please share your experience and make it useful, helpful for other by doing the following rating.

Please Note: to make this rating more useful and helpful information, please rate only the software you ever experience, for the video editing program which you never use please do not rate it.

Software Name	User Rating
Avidemux	(28 votes)  Loading ...
Kdenlive	(3 votes)  Loading ...
Cinelerra	(3 votes)  Loading ...
LiVES	(4 votes)  Loading ...
Kino	(2 votes)  Loading ...
PiTiVi	(2 votes)  Loading ...
OpenShot Video Editor	(5 votes)  Loading ...
ZS4 Video Editor	(25 votes)  Loading ...

Linux Video Editing Program Voting

These are notable video editor software programs for Linux platform available on the internet today.  And as an experienced user, what is your favorite video editing software for Linux? You can tell the world through the following poll. The reasons I design this voting is to solve the problem which many other users have in choosing Linux video editing program by finding out which is the most popular and the best. To achieve this goal, user involvement and participation (including you) is very important, necessary and need. I encourage the users which have experience with the software to vote the following poll:

Please Note:

1. You can only vote for one time.
2. After voting, you will see the result of what you have voted and other people voting immediately. (You also can see result without voting by just click on View Result link below Vote button)
3. The voting result will continue showing and change based on number voting from time to time. Therefore do not forget to check result sometime.

Video Editing Software Reviews

You can read reviews on video editing software for Linux as well as sharing your experiences with each program you have ever used in following:

Avidemux

Avidemux is a free open source video editing software program developed by Mean, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The program is designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks on AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF. It provides basic video editing features.

Kdenlive

Kdenlive is a free and open-source video editor for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. The developer considers that Kdenlive should be used by video amateurs as well as advanced users from basic video editing to semi-professional work. It offers a complete solution from capturing, editing to publishing videos. The program allows you to capture video from any source including DV, HDV or AVCHD camera.

Cinelerra

Cinelerra is a free video editing software for Linux system. It is developed by Heroine Virtual and released under the GNU General Public License. The program is designed to help user in doing three things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video. There are some key features which you can found in Cinelerra such as support for very high-fidelity audio and video, it processes audio using 64 bits of precision, and can work in both RGBA and YUVA color spaces, using floating-point and 16-bit integer representations, respectively.

LiVES

LiVES is a simple video editing program which is formerly Linux video editing system, but now it supports more other operating systems. LiVES is a free software licensed under the GNU GPL. It mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional application which is used by both professional VJ’s and video editors. It allows user to apply many effects including random/targeted zooming, panning of video, color cycling and colorization/color filtering; compositing of frames is possible such as frame-in-frame, fade in, fade out and transparency.

Kino

Kino is a free video editor program for Linux operating system. It is a non-linear DV editor released under GNU General Public License. It allows user to capture video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV; loading multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video / audio, and save it to an edit decision list. Kino can export the composite movie in various file formats including DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4.

PiTiVi

PiTiVi is an open source video editor for Linux system, written in Python and based on GStreamer and GTK+. PiTiVi is licensed under the Lesser General Public License. It is free to download and use. PiTiVi is written in Python for the high-level logic and user interfaces. This enables fast development time, as well as easy extension of any PiTiVi component through native python plugins.

OpenShot Video Editor

OpenShot Video Editor is a non-linear video editor for Linux, built with Python, GTK, and the MLT Framework. It is a free and open-source software program which you can download and use for free of charge. You can also redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The developer goal is to create an easy-to-use, powerful, non-linear video editor, with a focus on three things: User Interface, Work flow and Stability.

ZS4 Video Editor

ZS4 Video Editor is a free video editing application developed by t@b. The program is advanced video editing and compositing software with a large number of built-in video effects. There are various features you can found in the program such as unlimited number of video and audio effects for every track, cropping, zooming, panning, volume, rotation, opacity, key-color and manipulate the flow of time, forward, backward, speed up and slow down smoothly.

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