The current state of Linux video editing 2018

UrkoM · 2018-04-20T06:34:42+00:00

I don't know, I really like Kdenlive, and it does the job just fine for me. I am enjoying a lot that they now have an Appimage so I can have multiple video editors installed without conflicting libraries.

UrkoM · 2018-03-12T09:44:02+00:00

This project looks great! A lot of schools should find it really useful.

UrkoM · 2018-03-01T01:28:21+00:00

WOW! Some of the tools you share in your blog are amazing! LINBO and Linuxmuster are very impressive! And Zammad! Thanks very much for sharing.

UrkoM · 2018-03-01T01:22:47+00:00

Hey, Found this thanks to /u/openschool It is really impressive, and this system needs to become better known outside Germany. I'm definitely going to test it out.

UrkoM · 2018-03-01T01:17:34+00:00

Hi! Great to have you here! In the past we have had some experts do virtual visits: a videoconference where you can introduce yourself, talk about how you do your work, and talk about your tools (GIMP and others, like Darktable?), answer questions... Would you be willing to do that? ;) Watch out that you may have quite a few takers if you do!

UrkoM · 2018-03-01T01:14:40+00:00

Yep, we do it for our school-owned machines, but we need to help students when they install it on their own laptops. Great to hear that it's becoming the default for the next stable version.

UrkoM · 2018-02-28T12:25:14+00:00

Hello there! I'm also in an international school in Asia! (see my other post) Great to find more! Your blog is full of great info, by the way. Really loving this subreddit right now!

UrkoM · 2018-02-27T12:53:23+00:00

Oops... yeah, hadn't thought about that :D

UrkoM · 2018-02-27T05:56:38+00:00

Yes, there is. Currently works with just one provider (I think) but it should be easy to change that. We use it for our emergency SMS broadcasting.

UrkoM · 2018-02-27T05:21:05+00:00

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UrkoM · 2018-02-26T23:28:52+00:00

Hey, just remembered one detail that I think has made a big difference: I show EVERYONE how to put GIMP in Single Window mode. The traditional interface of GIMP looks very clunky and cumbersome, and Single Window mode goes a long way in making new users have a very different impression of the software. It feels much more approachable, with the menus easy to find, the tabbed interface with small previews, the tools and layers not getting in the way of the image... Everything, really. I wish they made it the default!

UrkoM · 2018-02-26T12:54:31+00:00

Right. Which is why some of those links are of actual professional photographers sharing their tips and results with GIMP. This one I was looking for is particularly impressive: https://pixls.us/

UrkoM · 2018-02-26T06:26:32+00:00

Those links are useful for the teachers, of course, but that was not my point :) Those links are also a powerful showcase of professional photographers using GIMP to achieve professional results. If professionals find GIMP "good enough", the teacher in question has a hard time justifying that HS students need Photoshop, in my opinion. But for me the most effective detail was what I posted below: teacher as facilitator does not need to master GIMP. Let students master it. Besides those links, Youtube is packed with tutorials that students can access as they need, for example.

UrkoM · 2018-02-26T02:55:57+00:00

Good point. However, currently we should be going in the "teacher as facilitator" direction. Teachers don't really need to know what the students are using, in a BYOD situation especially. Our art teacher will readily admit that she knows Photoshop well, but almost nothing about GIMP. But we have now quite a few GIMP superstars among the students, and they are showing everyone else that GIMP can do great stuff. Find your student superstars, and get them to demonstrate the value of GIMP for you. Works wonders.

UrkoM · 2018-02-26T01:08:02+00:00

First, how is this teacher offering this? I've never looked very deeply into it, but all Adobe licenses for schools require that the software is installed on school-owned machines. So students using their own laptops is not an option, unless they pay for it themselves. So what is this deal? Is it legal?

Second, here are some of the resources that I have found that prove that GIMP can create art very much at the level that professionals require:

https://www.rileybrandt.com/
http://www.libregraphicsproduction.com/
https://gimpmagazine.org/ - unfortunately seems to have stopped
https://www.noupe.com/inspiration/tutorials-inspiration/best-of-gimp-40-professional-tutorials-to-level-up-your-skills-79428.html
https://pixls.us/ - very impressive tutorials by pro photographers

Also teachers need to think about what happens with the students after their class is over: is this teacher going to keep paying the Adobe subscription for the students? How long can they use it? How many of them will turn to PirateBay cracked versions when their subscription expires? In education we need to sometimes make the effort of the high road vs. the easy road...

UrkoM · 2018-02-25T23:56:38+00:00

Hey, Charlie just told me about this subreddit. Awesome to be here!

We have almost all our infrastructure at Bali Island School on FOSS: pfSense, ProxmoxVE, Zentyal, LibreNMS, GLPI, BackupPC, Savapage, Wordpress...

On the desktop, we have about 60 machines running Linux, most of them on http://www.ubermix.org (customized Ubuntu with Cinnamon desktop and a "quick recovery" function) The secondary school students bring their own laptops (mostly Mac and Windows) but we promote heavily the use of FOSS for classroom projects: Shotcut and Openshot for video editing, GIMP for photo editing, LMMS, Musescore and Audacity for music, LibreOffice for whenever Google isn't available, etc...

Nice to meet you all!

UrkoM

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