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What about video editing? I mean, I can live with Audacity for my basic needs, but I can't find anything simple as iMovie. Or should I just bite the bullet and learn Blender? Does it have preset screen transitions and stuff like that?

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I've had great success with Kdenlive. It's not as simple as iMovie, but it isn't too hard to get started.

Have you tried openshot[1]? I haven't played much with it recently, but when it came out it was the most stable, simple video editor for linux.

[1] http://openshot.org/

No. Wow, a lot of great suggestions here. I need to test stuff now :)

I'm using OpenShot, it's perfectly serviceable, particularly the new 2.x version. There's also LightWorks and many other that works really well.

There's also Flowblade from Finland: http://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/

Shotcut, Kdenlive, Blender (overdrop)

Blender's Video Sequence Editor just has a couple of quirks to get past. It is not deeply mysterious.

Like: the VSE viewer and the Image viewer are similar but distinct; that can be confusing. And OpenGL acceleration on a Scene strip shows a 3D model rendition that is not (in general) the same as the rendered output of the Scene.

If you want to get fancy with the compositor + VSE, again there are just a couple of quirks but the learning curve is merely steep, not long.

Have you tried DaVinci Resolve? Last I checked it had a native Linux version. Unfortunately I don't think the Linux version is available for free (unlike the Windows and Mac versions).

Blender is 3d modeling and animation, vastly divergent from video editing with kdenlive / openshot / etc.

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Blender actually contains a non-linear video editor as well.

And it's probably one of the nicer options if/when you finally "get it". But the learning curve is tough.

It's the least bad NLE for Linux. The UI is awful, but it's stable and has a reasonable feature set.

Blender probably contains a full copy of Blender inside itself too. That program is nuts.

I was completely lost when I tried to use it. I wasn't even sure I found the NLE section of the program.

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