What Cinelerra?

[nilsA]

There are many versions of Cinelerra out there - anyone to give advice as which to choose?

[Snowhog]

It isn't available in the official Ubuntu repositories and the official application site (for downloads) at http://cinelerra.org/download indicates that the last 64-bit binary version of Ubunutu it was written for was 14.04.2.

[oshunluvr]

Try this one if you want and alternate: http://www.openshotvideo.com

or if you want to go pro-level: https://www.lwks.com

[GreyGeek]

Try this one if you want and alternate: http://www.openshotvideo.com

or if you want to go pro-level: https://www.lwks.com

I saw the OpenShot was in the repository at version 1.4, which is somewhat old, so I checked the link you gave and it offered an "AppImage" for Linux. I have no clue about how to handle that extension and a cursory look around the website didn't reveal anything, but I found this:

Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and above

sudo add-apt-repository ppapenshot.developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

I used that and the install of version 2.2 went very smoothly.
Thanks for the link!
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[Snowhog]

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[GreyGeek]

Thanks!

[wizard10000]

There are many versions of Cinelerra out there - anyone to give advice as which to choose?

Forgive me if I sound a bit condescending but cinelerra wouldn't be my first choice for casual video editing; it's an extremely powerful tool with a steep learning curve but if you want to do professional video editing cinelerra is the thing to use.

These days I just use openshot but the 64-bit binary listed for Ubuntu 14.04 is cinelerra 6, which is current and should work just fine.

Good luck -

[nilsA]

Thank you all for the advice. I have managed to install Cinelerra, and also Lightsworks. Both these look reasonably like what I used several years ago (Edit DV and Adobe Premiere). I also have tried to use Ulead/Corel Video Studio, but never got acquainted with the more "intuitive" approach.

However, the registration procedure for Lightworks does not work for me, so I am not able to log into Lightworks, so I cannot see in real life what it is like.