[hjek]

For me, Shotcut, Openshot, Flowblade, Olive and Pitivi have been crashing to often to be worth using. Openshot used to be less flaky when I used it a few years ago when it was in GTK but the Qt version has not been stable to me.

Kdenlive is amazing though, especially the timegraphs for applying effects, and the clip proxying which makes it amazingly smooth for large projects on old laptops. I don't think any of the other free video editors come anywhere close.

[gradstudent]

I used flowblade 2.6.0 for my teaching throughout the pandemic. It's a wonderful tool and I never experienced any crashes. Earlier I tried Shotcut, Openshot and others. They were slow to work with (laggy ui), slow to render and sometimes crashed.

My experiences were on Linux btw (Ubuntu 20.04) using well supported hardware.

[Inityx]

I had a really bad experience last time I tried to use Kdenlive.

Even on a pretty powerful system, having a project timeline longer than an hour made the entire interface run at ~5fps for me when adjusting cuts. After that, I started using DaVinci Resolve, which definitely still has problems, but runs like nothing else I've seen.

[hjek]

> Even on a pretty powerful system, having a project timeline longer than an hour made the entire interface run at ~5fps for me when adjusting cuts.

Did you use proxy clips? It's not on by default[0].

[0]: https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/...

[Inityx]

I did not, but the source footage I was editing was 720p 30fps so I don't think that would have been much help

[franga2000]

Both Kdenlive and Olive a2.0 have been about as stable for me as Premiere Pro on Windows, which is to say usable, but keep your autosave time short. Kdenlive is far ahead in terms of functionality, but I'm 100% sold on Olive now that I've worked with the code a bit. It is so well-structured that I was able to jump in and make somw modifications and a custom node that I needed for a project in barely an hour, starting from zero - having never worked on a C++ project outside of embedded stuff.

[simbas]

We use kdenlive at work with the same results. Sometimes crashes but Auto save saves the day

[Jistern]

This! Simply presume kdenlive will frequently crash. I found it very disconcerting at first, but I learned to treat kdenlive's frequent crashing as a mildly annoying glitch (peccadillo).

[freedomben]

I use kdenlive for quite a bit. Crashing can be a problem when using the system repo version, but when using the flatpak it's very stable. If you haven't tried that, I would recommend it.

[Jistern]

TIL. Thank you very much! I had no idea that a Flatpak would increase stability. I'll have to get it a try.

[prox]

Never had Kdenlive crash on me. Win 11. Solid here.

[RappingBoomer]

kdenlive used to be fairly usable, but a recent upgrade messed up the interface, making it too large to be very usable