[linsomniac]

Just FYI: ~3 months ago I went through reviewing a lot of the Linux available NLE video editors, and in the end I picked: Installing Windows on a spare drive and running Davinci Resolve. It is really next level, free, and everything else I looked at paled in comparison. Also there is a ton of educational content for Resolve on Youtube, which most of the others couldn't even come close to. I spent in total probably 5 hours trying to get it to work under Linux with no luck.

My runner-up was Lightworks, not open source but worked great on Linux. But it's $25/month if you want to export any high res content (I'm working in 4K from a cheap action cam).

I really wanted Olive to work, but it's pretty basic. I did a simple video with it as a trial and it worked ok. If I just needed to take a few clips and cut them together with transitions and fade in/out, that'd be a great choice.

But I want to publish things to Youtube and people have really taken it to the next level there. So I'm often doing multicam cuts and stabilizing and adding titles and things. Davinci is nice because it can do the simple stuff, but you won't outgrow it.

Resolve 16 has a new editing mode that focuses on quickly cutting together video and it looks pretty nice. I haven't used it yet though.

Resolve 16 beta is still a little unstable. I just re-installed 15 last night to edit a school video for my son. Also, I was having performance problems until I switched my footage to ProRes format, H.264 didn't really work. Also there are settings to use quarter res and smart caching and "SQ" playback that help performance on my 7 year old box (with modern video card).