Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor designed specifically for Linux. It uses an insert-editing workflow where clips are generally placed tightly together on the timeline, while a collection of move and trim tools provides more precise control when required.
The editor combines timeline editing with compositing, filters, generators, proxy workflows and media-management tools. Projects can contain up to 21 combined video and audio tracks and use media supported by the underlying MLT and FFmpeg stack.
Flowblade also provides tools aimed at more involved productions, including motion-tracked filter masks, compound clips, batch rendering, audio synchronization, media relinking and extensive keyframe animation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Up to 21 combined video and audio tracks with six dedicated timeline editing tools.
- Insert, overwrite and append workflows together with drag-and-drop timeline editing.
- Clip parenting, audio synchronization and dual trimming of synchronized clips.
- Standard track compositing and compositor-based workflows with configurable blend modes.
- More than 40 wipe patterns together with fades, transitions and alpha-channel manipulation.
- More than 50 image filters and 30 audio filters covering colour correction, distortion, blur, audio processing and other effects.
- Keyframe animation with a large selection of linear, smooth, elastic, bounce and other interpolation types.
- Motion-tracked masks and graphical editors for crop, gradient and alpha-shape filters.
- Generators for animated text, backgrounds, credits and other rendered media.
- Create compound clips from selected clips or timeline ranges.
- Proxy editing workflow for demanding source material.
- Range Log helps identify and organize useful sections of source clips.
- G’MIC integration provides access to additional image-processing effects.
- Dedicated text tool with control over typography, shadows and outlines.
- Batch rendering and media relinking tools.
- Supports common video, audio and image formats through MLT and FFmpeg.
- VA-API and NVENC hardware encoders are available where supported.
Website: github.com/jliljebl/flowblade
Support:
Developer: Janne Liljeblad and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Flowblade is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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Flowblade is garbage. I simply cannot find how to simply rotate. This is the first video editor where it is not easily apparent. I’m deleting and moving on to something more user friendly.
For basic editing and my personal needs Flowblade has served my needs almost perfectly so far. It always seems to get the job done. For editing basic instructional videos with graphics edited into the video, Flowblade edits my videos almost perfectly. There are many features and tolls that I haven’t even tried out in Flowblade yet I have to admit too — so this video editor may be even better than I think it is. I love Flowblade and use it almost daily. It may not be perfect for every need — but so far it’s all I need to edit my instructional videos and have them look professional (I’ve seen other professional instructional videos that didn’t look as professional as my videos that I edit look, and I can keep learning about editing videos in the future as well). I’m so grateful to have a free video editor like Flowblade to shoot instructional videos with. And I’m sure that Flowblade will continue to improve in the future as well. I love the stability and reliability of Flowblade — I can run flowblade on an I7 CPU and 4GB or RAM in an old Lenovo ThinkCenter desktop computer running Linux Mint 20. Thank you GNU/Linux for Flowblade video editor to make instructional videos with.