shotcut - cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor

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Warning: Shotcut is currently in very early stage and active development. So do not expect a final product for now. Binaries are regularly built and are available at https://www.shotcut.org, on the Download section.

Blender - 3D content creation suite

•    Python

Blender helps to model, shade, animate, render, composite interactive 3d content. Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, video editing and compositing. It also features a built-in game engine.

Ardour - Digital Audio Workstation

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Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It supports unlimited audio tracks and buses. Its features include Non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports Standard file formats BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF, CAF and Windows VST plugins. Ardour can be used as an audio mastering environment. Its integration with JACK makes it possible to use mastering tools such as JAMin to process the audio data.

PiTiVi - Movie editor for Linux desktop

•    Python

PiTiVi is designed to be a simple video editor to meet the needs of users in the GNOME desktop environment. PiTiVi inherits its capabilities for importing and exporting (rendering) media from the GStreamer framework, or plugins for the GStreamer framework. PiTiVi supports simple media editing capabilities such as trimming, snapping, splitting and cutting of clips. Audio mixing is supported by curves, visualised as line segments drawn over an audio waveform.

kdenlive - Powerful multi-track video editor

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Kdenlive is a video editor, which supports DV, AVCHD (experimental support) and HDV editing. Kdenlive relies on several other open source projects, such as FFmpeg and MLT video framework. It is designed to answer all needs, from basic video editing to semi-professionnal work. Kdenlive can read, edit and export Flash video. Kdenlive supports most audio formats for reading, mixing and exporting. It also offers experimental support for non-destructive audio and video codec.

Shotcut - Cross-Platform Video Editor

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Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor. It supports many video formats. It does screen capture, webcam capture, audit capture in Linux. It supports frei0r video generator plugins, create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML playlists, video filters: Blur, Color Grading, Crop, Glow, Mirror, Saturation, Sharpen and lot more.

OpenShot - Video Editor

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OpenShot is a video editor which supports many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg), Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, Key Frame animation, Digital zooming of video clips, Audio mixing and editing and lot more.

Cinelerra - Capture, Compose Edit video & Audio

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Turn your Linux box into a complete audio and video production environment. This is the developer resource for all things related to the system. Cinelerra does primarily 3 things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It's a movie studio in a box. Cinelerra also includes a video compositing engine, allowing the user to perform common compositing operations such as keying and mattes.

Handbrake - The open source video transcoder

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HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. It converts video from nearly any format. Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Vidiot - Non-Linear Video Editor

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Vidiot is a non-linear video editor targeted for home video editing. It supports operations like compositing, scaling/rotating, adding transitions, trimming, etc. Its features include Non-linear video editor, Video converter, Video compositing Trimming, Cut/Move/Drag and drop, Edit during playback and lot more.

Kino - Non-Linear DV editor for GNU/Linux

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Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings. Kino can export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4.

CineFX - Professional grade media player

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Cinefx is a professional grade media player, based on the jahplayer, that is capable of playing uncompressed video and image sequences at resolutions as high as 2K and 4K in real-time. Cinefx is an offline playback, editing, encoding, animation and visual effects tool based on the Jahshaka technology that allows you to create professional digital media on your desktop. Use the tools that hollywood uses to create blockbuster films and special effects.

Jahshaka - Video and Film Compositing, Editing and Special FX System

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Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.

Open Movie Editor - Video Editor for Linux

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Open Movie Editor is a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims to be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. It runs with a wide range of different File Formats, Frame Rates, Frame Sizes, Video Codecs and Video Containers.

Avidemux - free video editor in all platforms

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Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Natron - Video compositing software

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Natron is a video compositing software, similar in functionality to Adobe After Effects, Nuke by The Foundry, or Blackmagic Fusion. It offers a real-time playback with thanks to its RAM/Disk cache technology. Once a frame is rendered, it can be reproduced instantly afterwards, even for large image sizes.

humble-video - Humble Video: Demuxing, Decoding, Filtering, Encoding and Muxing of 100's of video and audio formats and Codecs from the JVM

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To see how to use the API, go to the humble-video-demos package. If you are running on other platforms, the Maven Central artifacts may not work and you'll have to build your own version. And beware ... building Humble takes a very long time.

Mp4Composer-android - This library generate an Mp4 movie using Android MediaCodec API and apply filter, scale, and rotate Mp4

•    Java

This library generate an Mp4 movie using Android MediaCodec API and apply filter, scale, and rotate Mp4.

blind - Video editing in the command line

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Video editing in the command line

KSYMediaEditorKit_Android - 金山云短视频编辑SDK Android版本,合成速度快,支持抖动、冲击波、灵魂出窍等特效滤镜 Short video editor SDK powered by KSYUN, which makes it easy to capture, create, view, edit and share your clips and playback anywhere

金山云短视频编辑SDK Android版本,合成速度快,支持抖动、冲击波、灵魂出窍等特效滤镜 Short video editor SDK powered by KSYUN, which makes it easy to capture, create, view, edit and share your clips and playback anywhere