Shotcut is a free video editor you install on your computer to cut, arrange and edit video clips. It is aimed at people who want a full-featured editor without paying for one.
OpenShot is a free, open-source video editor for Linux, Mac and Windows for cutting, arranging and animating video clips on a multi-track timeline. It is for people who want an easy-to-use editor without paying for one.
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Kdenlive is a free video editor for cutting and arranging video clips. It is aimed at people who want to edit video on their own computer without paying for software.
OpenCut is a free video editor that is being rewritten to run on web, desktop and mobile. It is aimed at people who want to cut and edit videos without paying for software.
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LosslessCut is a desktop app for quickly cutting and trimming video and audio files without re-encoding them, so quality is kept and file size drops. It is for people who want to rough-cut large camera or drone footage and extract the good parts.
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Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/video-editing.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
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Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Final Cut Pro, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Shotcut (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut; replaces fully): Shotcut is a free video editor you install on your computer to cut, arrange and edit video clips. It is aimed at people who want a full-featured editor without paying for one.
- OpenShot (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt; replaces fully): OpenShot is a free, open-source video editor for Linux, Mac and Windows for cutting, arranging and animating video clips on a multi-track timeline. It is for people who want an easy-to-use editor without paying for one.
- Kdenlive (GPL-3.0-only, https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive; replaces fully): Kdenlive is a free video editor for cutting and arranging video clips. It is aimed at people who want to edit video on their own computer without paying for software.
- OpenCut (MIT, https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut; replaces partly): OpenCut is a free video editor that is being rewritten to run on web, desktop and mobile. It is aimed at people who want to cut and edit videos without paying for software.
- LosslessCut (GPL-2.0, https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut; replaces partly): LosslessCut is a desktop app for quickly cutting and trimming video and audio files without re-encoding them, so quality is kept and file size drops. It is for people who want to rough-cut large camera or drone footage and extract the good parts.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
