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I did manage to drag the video to the timeline in the end. In 38:34 in the window where it said "export help" you will see it has "timeline" enabled. So I think in Shotcut you have to create a profile or enable the setting before it will let you drag any videos to the timeline. Yet there was no user guide to explain that. Shotcut is no as user friendly as Openshot also Shotcut does not have as many features as Openshot has. That's one of the reasons I don't use Shotcut on my computer. Openshot is better.

Shotcut did work for me after a lot of fiddling around but it lacks the add titles and fade in and out features that Openshot has. Openshot is betters as it is the one that is the most like Windows Movie Maker and Windows Live Movie Maker. Which is what I was using when I was on Windows. I am on Linux now so no Windows Movie Maker because there is no way to get it to work on Linux. So now I use Openshot.

Well a lot of people use Kdenlive but I didn't find it very user friendly at all. Shotcut has very limited functions. You can only join video clips together but you cannot add titles to the video. I find that Openshot is the best one because is easy to use and has a lot of the features that Windows Movie Maker has got. Openshot has the option to add transitions, fade in and fade out effects and titles just like Movie Maker has. So anybody who has use Windows Movie Maker or Windows Live Movie Maker will find Openshot easy to use or lean to use. Openshot has been around for a long time and there is a Windows version. So I could have used it on Windows but then I had Windows Movie Maker so I never thought of using Openshot. Now that I am on Linux of course Windows Movie Maker doesn't work. So I had to find an alternative and Openshot fits the bill as it is a lot like Movie Maker. The only thing it doesn't have is the record from the webcam feature and the credits feature where the titles slide up the screen or sideways.Which Windows Live Movie Maker has but you can't have everything.

I am using Guvcview to record my webcam and I use Kazam or Simple Screen Recorder to record my desktop. Depending on which laptop I am on. I made the webcam clip separate then I joined it together with the other clips in Openshot to make the video. The cards are a You Tube feature that anyone can add to their videos. I don't think there is any way to control how long they display. I think you mean the end screen clips which is another You Tube feature you can also add.

Both Kdenlive and Shotcut are Appimages and so is Openshot. According to the website Kdenlive is no longer being made as a Deb package. It is now a Flatpak or Appimage. As you can see in the video the versions that Debian have in Synaptic of all 3 video editors are very old versions. So does Ubuntu only have the old versions in their package manager. That's why it is better to install the video editors from the vendors website. That way you know you are getting the latest versions and you will get updates for any new versions direct from the vendor. Rather than wait for Debian or Ubuntu to update which they don't always do right away. I have never tried Fedora but it's good to hear that they do keep their packages up to date with the latest versions. I don't know why Ubuntu and debian don't. Maybe it's because they have so many that they cannot keep track of everything. We can always install the package ourselves if we want the latest version. That is easy to do.

I have tried Kdenlive but I couldn't figure out how to use it. Shotcut works I did try the latest version which is an Appimage like Openshot is. I was able to add the video clips but it doesn't have the option to add or create titles as Openshot does. Openshot is better because it has more features that Shotcut. It is I think very similar to Windows Movie Maker which I used to use on Windows and does have a lot of those features. Openshot also do a Windows version so Windows users can use it to. Openshot is the one that works best for me. Also if you are going to use it on Linux it is better to get the version direct from the website. If you want Shotcut you should also download from the website rather than the package manager. Because both versions that Ubuntu and Debian have are very old versions. So it's better to install it yourself direct from the vendors website as I do. Both can be installed as Appimages.

@@AndreaBorman yea i looked into it deeper and i could totally see how openshot would be perfect choice for someone who's used to the movie maker (shotcut comes with a windows version as well though, i even used to use it on windows for a while)

@@v0xl Yes Shotcut, Kdenlive and Openshot all have versions for Windows. I have just made a video in which I tested out both Shotcut and Kdenlive. Out of all of then Openshot is the best one because it has most of the features that Windows Movie Maker has. It is also the only one that works well. I think Openshot was made with Windows users who used Movie Maker in mind because it does seem to be a lot like it. That's one thing I miss is Windows Movie Maker but there is no way that Windows Movie Maker will work on Linux. Because it needs Net Framework and that won't run either not even though Wine. So Movie Maker is out but Openshot is the next best thing and has most of the features that Movie Maker has. I have read that Windows users are having a hard time getting Windows Movie Maker to run on Windows 11 because Microsoft have taken the download off of the website. Also Windows is blocking the installation. So Openshot is a good alternative for Windows users as well.

Yes it is. You just download the file, place it in a folder, make it executable and run it. It is also the same with Tar or Zip files. You just extract the file then run the program file. I have installed Waterfox and Palemoon web browser this way. I also get updates for them as well.

@@AndreaBorman Okl! BTW I have found out another way to add MIDI playback to Linux, by using Timidity! It has an advantage over Fluidsynth and that is lower CPU usage. First you install Timidity from the repos, then you type in terminal "timidity -iA Os" (capital letter O) this will then create 4 virtual MIDI ports starting with 128:0. You then have to bind one of these to the system MIDI port, so you just run "aconnect 14:0 128:0" then you have native MIDI playback! The only downisides is that a lot of programs are just hard coded to use Fluidsynth instead, so a lot will just ignore the system MIDI, and you will have to type these commands every time you boot up, but you can just put them in a startup script. I have GZDoom playing with native MIDI and it sounds great, also some MIDI websites use it too.

They used to have Adobe Flash Player on Linux the same as on Windows but that's not supported anymore. That's no loss because Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader were full of malware, so not very safe. A lot of people use Gimp now which is the same as Photoshop.

They are fortunes which Linux Mint used to have in their early versions.They can be installed on any Linux.

@@AndreaBorman Found it, installed fortunes and cowsay on my Kubuntu and I am loving it. Thank you for making my day (and my terminal experience) so much more fun :)

I did make a video about this a long time ago. It was when I tried Linux for the first time. The video is here:czcams.com/video/B-CEwbrb9Nw/video.html&t

@@TermoZour (isn't playonlinux obsolete/no longer actively maintained? some people even say it's pretty much discontinued at this point?)

@@v0xl I am not sure. I think you can still use it. I don't have any need to use Wine because Linux has all of the software I want. So no need to use any Windows apps.