Extra features
What makes them special?
One of the most unique features of Flowblade and Kdenlive is the ability to use proxy editing. When original media files are far too demanding of resources such as CPU or disk bandwidth to allow for responsive editing, the tool makes it possible for you switch to working on proxy clips instead, saving system resources.
Flowblade also enables you perform batch rendering operations and split audio from video files. This option leaves you free to change the soundtrack and you can also insert watermarks on to your files.
This is where Kdenlive’s custom layout feature comes in. Users can tweak the layout to their liking, depending on their workflow. The tool makes it possible to save your custom layout so you don’t have to make the necessary changes every time you launch the tool. Best of all, it also enables you to configure the keyboard shortcuts to match your custom layout. Because video editing is a creative process requiring frequent changes, the automatic backup of project files is incredibly handy.
If you want to introduce additional functionality to LiVES, you can do so by writing your own custom plugins, which can be in Perl, C or C++, Python and so on. It automatically scales when necessary, depending on the detected hardware. This is why the tool has been successfully on the most number of devices, including x86, amd64, PPC and xBox/x86. Like Kdenlive, LiVES can also preserve backups of your project and should the application ever crash, you can attempt to recover the files you were working on by starting it with the lives -recover command. You can also use the application to load single images or directory of image files in numerical order and assemble them into videos or slideshows.
Openshot provides real-time previews so you can quickly assess your work. It can also be used to create 2D animation and adding 3D animated titled and effects to your clips.
Shotcut offers unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view. You can also export single frame as image or video as image sequence.