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I switched to OpenShot about 2 months ago after working exclusively in Premier Pro for 3 years. I made the change because the price I paid for Premier simply wa

I switched to OpenShot about 2 months ago after working exclusively in Premier Pro for 3 years. I made the change because the price I paid for Premier simply wasn't justified for my video needs. I had looked at many free editors in the past and never found one that could handle 1) variable framerate, and 2) .MOV with transparency. OpenShot does so with very little trouble. It took me a little while to adjust to the UI and shortcuts, but I'm doing daily videos with minimal editing, and my editing time is comparable to what I experienced with Premier Pro. The only thing I "miss" from Premier is the built-in audio de-noiser... but I was using it as a crutch for poorly captured in-camera auido and have since fixed my audio setup.

iwasakabukiman 7y ago
It’s still nice to have a decent denoiser for those times when your audio doesn’t come out how you were expecting. Everything can go right on a shoot and for whatever reason the audio comes out bad. It’s nice to have a backup option for when you really need it.
- Random_Person 7y ago
  My backup option is splitting the audio and running it through Audacity. In fact, this option is better than what Premier Provides for sound control/filtering. The only reason I didn't do this instead of buying new audio gear is my upload schedule. Anything that gets in my way while editing is a step I can't afford to take.
bufferoverflow 7y ago
FFMPeg has a few denoise filters: afftdn, anlmdn. Or you can use this one via lv2: https://github.com/lucianodato/speech-denoiser https://github.com/lucianodato/speech-denoiser https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#lv2 https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#lv2
- Random_Person 7y ago
  Awesome info. Thanks for the response!
whymsicalburito 7y ago
By chance did you check out Avid's free version of media composer? I'm curious how that stacks up with the other free editors out there.
- Random_Person 7y ago
  I did a few years back and it seemed fine for cutting clips together, but not doing much else like titles.

iwasakabukiman 7y ago

It’s still nice to have a decent denoiser for those times when your audio doesn’t come out how you were expecting. Everything can go right on a shoot and for whatever reason the audio comes out bad. It’s nice to have a backup option for when you really need it.

Random_Person 7y ago
My backup option is splitting the audio and running it through Audacity. In fact, this option is better than what Premier Provides for sound control/filtering. The only reason I didn't do this instead of buying new audio gear is my upload schedule. Anything that gets in my way while editing is a step I can't afford to take.

bufferoverflow 7y ago

FFMPeg has a few denoise filters: afftdn, anlmdn. Or you can use this one via lv2: https://github.com/lucianodato/speech-denoiser https://github.com/lucianodato/speech-denoiser https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#lv2 https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#lv2

Random_Person 7y ago
Awesome info. Thanks for the response!

whymsicalburito 7y ago

By chance did you check out Avid's free version of media composer? I'm curious how that stacks up with the other free editors out there.

Random_Person 7y ago
I did a few years back and it seemed fine for cutting clips together, but not doing much else like titles.