I'm coming at this from the POV of creating 400 videos and have spent over 1,000 hours hardcore editing these videos. I think a lot of people who say kdenlive is good haven't tried Camtasia, or have created enough videos to really figure out kdenlive's shortcomings. Kdenlive feels like it's 10 years behind Camtasia in terms of UI polish and being able to accomplish simple tasks like put a little tooltip overlay on the screen and make it look reasonable. It's one of the reasons why I continue to stick with Windows. Unfortunately for screencast videos where you record your desktop and maybe overlay a webcam kdenlive is really really bad compared to alternatives available on Windows and Mac such as Camtasia / Screenflow. Lightworks has worked well, but Resolve looks like a space age rocket ship. Since I'm basically going to be using the machine for just editing when I'm editing, I may just set it up with Windows and call it done.įrom some of the introductions I've watched, it looks like Resolve is the software I want. I tried Resolve on my wife's Win10 laptop with Intel GPU, and it seemed to install and work no problem. I brought home a card from work to try, just to see if it would make a difference, but someone put a AMD card into the box of a nVidia card.

It couldn't find a GPU though ('clinfo' showed one), I'm guessing that it really,truly does need an nVidia card. Once I got opencl installed and rebooted the machine, I was able to start Resolve and get into the main interface. I grabbed the AMD 'pro' Linux drivers, installed them (which was tricky, their provided scripts bombed out so I manually had to resolve a bunch of dependencies). That mostly seemed to be my problem, the 18.04 OpenCL causes Resolve to segfault.

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