After a tremendous amount of time without editing a single frame of video, I found myself with time to plunge into a private project of mine. I tried different editors: I hated Kdenlive, Openshot was ok, Blender's built in editor was, well, weird, but I ended up back on Cinelerra.
Hell yes: it crashes sometimes, it has an "ugly"* UI, it needs pipes to get decent rendering going on, etc, but the truth is there's no place I feel better editing video. When I'm with Cinelerra, everything just flows. I never find it odd, hard or unintuitive. I do what I want, when I want, with the results I want. It's like writing with a fountain pen, and It's f$%&#$%$# great! And then, yesterday, it hit me: the very first time I installed Linux on my computer (it was 2006 or something), I did it because of Cinelerra. Everything on my PC (except for Windows) already was opensource, I just needed a good video editor to replace Adobe Premiere. I read about Cinelerra and that made me try Linux - and I never went back to Windows since. Cinelerra's workflow is perfect for the way I "think" the editing process, and it's responsible for me being a full time Linuxian. Lumiera is being done? Great. Lightworks is going opensource? Amazing. But with Cinelerra, well, It's a love story, and for some reason I felt like sharing it today. Kind kisses to you all, 99% of which I don't even know the name :)
