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   djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 06:11:12 JST djsumdog
   I did a talk last week on Docker, Nix and software dependencies:
   
   https://battlepenguin.video/w/3824sQx9hbZkVCQpaKuxYY
   
   (Rumble Mirror: https://rumble.com/v6tv3jb-from-docker-and-nix-to-apps-and-floppy-disks.html)
   
   (Odysee Mirror: https://odysee.com/@battlepenguin:1/docker-nix-talk:a)
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     jeff (jeff@mk.magicka.org)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 06:15:02 JST jeff

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     @djsumdog@djsumdog.com dependencies are stored in the balls

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 11:38:04 JST djsumdog

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     I started editing this video in Resolve and this is the first time I went back to Kdenlive. It's truly gotten so much better. Years ago it just crashed a lot and once even corrupted my save file.
     
     The current version is amazingly fluid. Some of the updates in Resolve has made their timeline clunkier, or maybe it's just been so long I've forgotten how their UI works. The free version of Resolve also can't handle a lot of the codecs using in my recording gear, where Kdenlive can handle them or offers to automatically transcodes them on import.
     
     If you edit video and haven't tried Kdenlive in a while, give it another shot. It's one less thing I need a windows or mac box for.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 11:43:06 JST djsumdog

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     • xianc78
     A long time ago and I remember the UI being amazingly frustrating. Not sure if it's gotten any better. Kdenlive fells like most other editors I've used (FinalCut, Resolve) and almost anything I wanted to do I could find with one or two documentation lookups.
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     xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 26-May-2025 11:43:08 JST xianc78

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     @djsumdog Have you tried Blender's video editor? For a while, I've heard it was Linux's only good video editor.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 11:53:11 JST djsumdog

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     • Matt Hamilton
     Surprised even the paid version of Resolve on Linux has no H264/265 support. (On Windows I think you need to install a $10 codec from the Windows store for H265). I briefly tried the Linux version and remember the H.264 limitation, as well as the UI not doing hidpi scaling very well (despite being a heavily modified version of Qt5).
     
     More recently, Resolve also couldn't handle 10-bit video clips unless you pay for Resolve Studio. Kdenlive and pretty much handle anything ffmpeg can deal with.
     
     Never tried Screenflow. I really loved the old version of FinalCut before Apple fucked it up. That was also around the time of the 10.7 Lion release of macOS, which removed workspace rows, crippled expose and was generally shit. MacOS 10.6 was the last good version of the OS and most of their tools.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 11:53:12 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @djsumdog I feel like my opinion in this arena has weight, given my evangalism for kdenlive (https://noauthority.social/@eriner/113692013869120389).

     After many years of using different things, here is my conclusion:

     Screenflow on Mac OS is the best for trivial use-cases. Kdenlive is the best for hobbists and people who need something beyond what you'd get from Screenflow. Davinci Resolve is best for those who can afford to invest the time and money (https://noauthority.social/@eriner/114549338665875624, https://noauthority.social/@eriner/114566217151042291, etc.).

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     Vivi Nella Verita (verita84@shit.poster.place)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 12:07:04 JST Vivi Nella Verita

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     @djsumdog

     open source takes decades to get good

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 12:12:31 JST Matt Hamilton

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     • CrunkLord420

     @djsumdog FWIW, I paid the $300 or whatever it is after discovering that they didn't charge a (typically annual) fee. Resolve's restoration features alone, for me personally, was worth the money. I had experimented with it a while back (thanks again @crunklord420) but didn't give it an honest go until recently when my needs changed. I'm still only doing pretty basic stuff with it, and it isn't dead-simple like my other recommendations, but I'm increasingly making use of the enhanced feature-set.

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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 12:13:00 JST Matt Hamilton

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     • CrunkLord420

     @djsumdog @crunklord420 Using the paid (Studio?) version, my only complaint on Linux is dealing with AAC and having to have this in my zshrc, but I can live with it:

     alac() {
     ffmpeg -i ${1} -c:v copy -c:a alac ${1:r}_alac.mp4
     }

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     CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 01:40:44 JST CrunkLord420

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     • Matt Hamilton
     @eriner @djsumdog yeah, resolve is fucking weird with codecs. I end up transcoding things losslessly for import, then export as ffv1 and do final encoding with ffmpeg.