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It's frustrating that AFAIK the FLOSS choices are Blender (compositor is robust but has severe limitations and is really, really slow) and Natron (more featureful and faster but crashes if you look at it wrong).

Davinci Resolve has Fusion built in, which is good and runs on Linux but it isn't FLOSS and I think has some limitations in the free version.

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AFAIK the only limitation on Fusion in Resolve is that resolution is limited to Ultra HD (no DCI 4K), just like in the rest of the free Resolve version.

There's also some nodes that only work on the paid version (or add a watermark if you try to use them) and there might be restrictions on using OpenFX plugins.

IMO, Resolve Studio is pretty reasonably priced considering that version upgrades have been free for many years (unlike Adobe and others which cost hundreds annually), but it's not FOSS and there's still people for which a $300 one-time purchase might be too much.

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