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I make all my videos using Linux. Here's how. | Veronica Explains

tinkerbetter.tube I make all my videos using Linux. Here's how.

The commenters often tell me I must be using a Mac or a Windows PC for video editing. Nope! I use three important pieces of free and open source software in order to make these videos, and luckily ...

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I haven't watched the video yet, but just because it's relevant to the topic...
I used to stream to Twitch with just ffmpeg. No OBS or anything.
I mostly did speedruns, and I needed a timer, so I wrote my own. I had ffmpeg read the current time to display from a file in /tmp/ and had a Go program that would write to that file at the same rate as the framerate at which I was streaming. Worked really well, actually.
I also made some videos (mostly tutorials for pulling off certain glitches in The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild) and put them on YouTube. I edited those entirely with ffmpeg and a pretty simple Bash script.
I'm definitely not going to claim they were what you might generally recognize as "well-edited" videos, but they did the job. And I definitely wasn't really looking to "make it big" on YouTube or anything, so I wasn't looking to polish my videos.
Here is one of my videos for reference. And here is a clip of a VOD from one of my streams that demonstrates the timer I mentioned.
- I still spend more time on Windows than Linux and I find it much easier to do basic trimming, splicing, resizing, cropping, and other very basic edits of video with just the ffmpeg CLI.
- I used to work at an ad agency that mostly did websites. We were supposed to cut some videos from an art gallery (really weird stuff) and put them on a DVD. Did that with ffmpeg. Cinelerra existed but it would crash if you just thought about clicking the wrong thing.
  LOL, I actually found one of the videos: https://youtu.be/vsV6W2ENTLs

Can she help me make kdenlive work with my GPU?
- What issue are you having, and what GPU & Driver are you using?
  
  The issue I'm having is that KDEN doesn't use the GPU. It's a 6800XT. I have no idea what driver.
- Is it not being recognised as a usable device?
  E: nvm, just realised hw accel support in kdenlive is experimental
  
  I have no idea. Where would I even find that information?

Pedalboard!?
She controls all that with her feet?
That's some high dex stuff

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Nice find qpwgraph
Description : PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface
I had been looking for something like this.

Might have to watch this, some of the software I've tried for video editing is stupid annoying to use
Also gonna try using my homelab as my stream rendering device: send the game stream from my PC via NDI to OBS on the homelab, where it combines my gameplay with my overlays and my wife's gameplay (if we play together, I call it wife-o-vision) and have a machine not playing the games do the rendering and streaming. Because that sounds like fun lol

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