[s3xham]

Shotcut and openshot crash less for me in general under linux, maybe I should give kdenlive a chance again after reading about the GUI fuzzing progress. My experience has been that kdenlive is prone to crashing and saving your project often is a must

[Erlich_Bachman]

Also for any user thinking of switching to or starting with Kdenlive, they should know that in addition to crashing often (as reported by many users) it also does not support a relatively common video editing feature as multiple timelines. In Kdenlive, in one project/file, you are only given a single timeline to do all your editing in. You cannot nest them, combine them, there are no timelines to combine, there is only one of them.

Since this will be a dealbreaker for many users, they should know this upfront.

All respect to open source software, but for many projects using Kdenlive is just not an option as of yet.

[s3xham]

Very true and another advantage for shotcut. Layering and multiple timelines is the defining feature between "oh look it's Windows Movie Maker, except worse" and a quality non linear editor.

I've definitely grown cynical but I will try out kdenlive and see if it has matured. Shotcut has been my Linux go-to for several years now.

[f_r_d]

Make sure to try the refactoring version. It will be out for the 19.04 release schedule.

[mrguyorama]

As much as I appreciate Shotcut, it is still missing many NLE features, like multiselect

[f_r_d]

For now in the refactoring version you are able to copy-paste clips between open instances. Multiple timelines and nesting are on the roadmap but only after finishing the refactoring and then adding advanced trimming tools.

[btreecat]

>it also does not support a relatively common video editing feature as multiple timelines.

Multiple timelines, not multiple tracks?

[f_r_d]

Although Kdenlive has had its fair share of crashes, maybe of them happen due to bad packaging, mostly by using wrong MLT version. Using the AppImage is a good solution.