 I've been doing this YouTube thing now for almost two years. It'll be two years in September and one of the things that I have come to truly despise about being a youtuber is the act of editing videos. I can't stand editing videos and honestly, it's not the the editing of the videos that is the hard part like or the part even that I despise so much like I Understand that videos need to be edited and well, let's just stop there for a second My videos need to be edited You wouldn't think that they really would because usually just me sitting in front of a camera Bullshitting for you know 20 minutes or whatever and then moving on but if I didn't edit my videos I would have no audience because My speech pattern is not what you would call cohesive coherent One of those words. I don't actually know I'm Sure that it's one of those words the point is is And they probably actually both apply now that I think about it that the point is is that when I talk I Say a lot of filler words like I have become a really big Proponent of the word um You know going through all these words that everybody uses for filler words and I'm a big use user of them like Sometimes every other word when I first started the YouTube channel. I swear to God every other word was the word um, it was Horrible now. I've gotten way better. I could way way better like first of all those first videos on the channel Those weren't edited at all. So you can go back to watch those videos and you'll just notice how horrible they are in terms of like Actually getting the point across because I have so many filler words in there It takes double the amount of time for me to actually spit out what I'm trying to say I've gotten better, but I still use fuller words all the time and One of the ways I've gotten over using filler words is the way they suggest to do it is to just not say anything When you think you're going to say the word um, you just be quiet. So when I Need to figure out what the word I'm trying to figure out out is next what that didn't come out, right? When I'm trying to figure out what the next word is You know, I have to just Be quiet for a second. Otherwise, I'll fill that space up with a filler word Now you're probably wondering what the point is, right? Well, I wanted to talk about video editing And the reason why I had to video edit is because of those filler words I mean there are other reasons, but that's the big one the problem I have isn't that they need to be edited like I said my problem comes down to the fact that there are no Good video editors on Linux at least in terms of things that I can actually try and use now Let me talk about my video editing journey for a little while for for the most part my video editor That I've used for the last two years is This one here. This is Caden live and I am so happy that Caden live exists Let me just put it out there right now Caden live is a fantastic piece of software and if it didn't exist Linux would be screwed when it comes to video editing I'm gonna just say that out loud this piece of software allows so many people to do so much more on Linux And they would be able to if it didn't exist and that's me included This is still the video editor that I use That being said Caden live sucks. I Can't help it. It's it's not good Well, okay, let me put it out. Let me change my opinion there for a minute. It is good. It's just buggy as shit like this thing is so it's it's so buggy and It's a KDE project like it's a it's a it's a project that comes from the KDE Consortium whatever it is and you can tell it like they add features all the time and they If you've been on YouTube for me any amount of time You'll remember that there was like a four year four five year period there where YouTube was changing something on the on their front page Or on their channel pages every single day That feels like what Caden live is to me. They change stuff all the time every time I do an update There's something that's different and while I'm all for new features like I like KDE plasma I like the fact that there's new features all the time but the problem when you introduce new features all the time you introduced instability and Instability means bugs like this thing is so buggy and it's gotten so much worse over the last few months for me Like I didn't used to actually have a problem like every once in a while I've come across a bug every once in a while the thing would crash and just piss me off But that was very rare over the last two or three months. They've added a whole bunch of different features and They've changed things for what I can assume is no apparent reason just for reasons like the render Windows, let me just show you this the let me see if I can Show you this. This is the render window and oops cancel that. I know I actually want to render the damn thing This is what it would look like this is fairly new now This is the expanded version and it's mostly the same as it was before but the problem is is That it's not the same as it was before and for whatever reason I cannot figure out What preset I was using before they made the change because I didn't remember the change during the update That's the biggest problem. I have with the flat pack version is whenever are they do an update? It forgets all of my settings like I have a favorite here that I've been using now for a little while last couple of weeks I guess since they did the update and When they did the update in the flat pack it forgot that and it just I had to figure it out again And the thing is is that when you This preset is important So I don't know if you've watched the channel for a few weeks now first of all welcome to the channel But you might remember that there was a video that I did on worm It's a window manager and the first version of that video that I uploaded was absolutely atrocious when it comes to Quality like it looked like it was 144p. It was horrible. It was like 8-bit And that's because of this that was right after the update and I didn't realize that it changed So I just you know assumed that my settings were the same as always and hit the render queue and just you know Went about my merry way, but of course it had changed and I didn't realize it So I uploaded it and walked away from my computer and I got all these messages in the comments like Matt This the quality of this video is garbage So I went back into this and realized that this had changed and if that was just the one time It would have been fine, but like a week and a half later. They changed it again so my presets were Gone again, so I've gone through several different presets. I'm still not sure which one that I was using for I'm pretty sure I'm back on the one that I was on before not sure though and The weird thing is is that the quality the file size now varies widely and it has no Bearing on how long the video is so for example yesterday's video was 30 minutes long or their abouts It might have been a little bit shorter than that 28 whatever That was a 4 gigabyte file when I rendered it out the day before I did a 12 minute video, which is and that's I'm you know Bad at math half the time, but it was double the file size It makes no sense to me and while I don't really care about file size I got plenty of hard drive space. I can store those things no problem What the reason why that matters is because when I upload those things especially when I'm uploading late at night And when I try to get it uploaded before midnight if the file size is bigger it takes longer to upload It takes longer to process it takes longer to do the YouTube checks And that's the reason why the other day I had to take a day off because I didn't have that video Processing time because it was like a 8 gigabyte file was ridiculous So that's just one of the changes and one of the bugs that I've Seen over the last few weeks another one that I've been experiencing and I don't want to this wasn't a Let's bash Kate and live thing. That's not what I really wanted to do I've kind of meandered into that because I've been I've been so frustrated with it like for example Let's I'm I want to talk about the specific bugs again right now Let me just talk a little bit about yesterday's video just for a moment because this is the reason why I'm making this video today Yesterday's video was about a half an hour long It was about 32 minutes unedited and it I think I got it down to like 26 or 27 or some of that It took me three and a half hours to edit and that's because every single time I did a cut Kate and live would ding at me and tell me to stop dragging the clip Like I don't drag the clip when I do a club cut nobody does that's not the way it works You know, I would I just had the scrubber where it needed to be cut hit my cut Shortcut and it's supposed to cut but instead it dinged at me so I had to re-click on the spot where I wanted to cut it and then Redo the cut short cut to get to cut so every cut I had to do basically twice and I was just I was so Frustrated at the end of it. I just like I need a new video editor I need a new video to get a video editor and the thing is I want to go back to my video editor Hey, you know journey is that was talking about earlier. I've tried most of them. I've tried most of them I've tried shot cut. I've tried to TV. I've tried to install DaVinci Resolve But I can't get to work on my hardware. I don't know what's going on there I think I don't know if it's a hardware problem or if it's the fact that for whatever reason It doesn't recognize that I have Paul kid agent install running because it needs a Paul kid agent install You know I've been running you would have sort to run which I don't understand Like why do you need a poke poke it is for pseudo access. You don't need pseudo access. It doesn't make any sense to me but anyways This is just get this video is gonna be full of just me meant mini ranting about everything that's wrong in my life When it comes to video editing Anyways, you know, I've tried all those I've tried olive which is still an alpha and It looks like it's an alpha and it feels like an alpha at least again in my experience So I've tried all of them and they don't have the pros like they're all they all have some things that are going for them But they all have major problems Kate and live seems to be the one that is the most stable which is kind of laughable given the things that I've just talked about But the thing is is that Linux deserves a better video editor It really does we should be grateful and I am grateful that we have what we have So I don't want to come across as ungrateful, but what we have is Not good enough. It's just not and Look, I know I've spent a lot of time on cating live because that's the one that I've used the most This is my plea to the cating live developers. Please Stop editing fit features. Stop making changes. Just put a complete freeze on new changes and And features and all that stuff no more for the next year, none of them I don't want any more new features. I don't care if it's the best new feature. You've ever seen in your life I don't want it right now. I don't want it. I can come later focus on making this the most stable video editor ever just do that for me, please I literally beg you Caden live developers to just make this thing better because it It wants to be good like it it has all the features that I need You know, it is easy to customize like every other KDE application is it works Well, most of the time, but the problem is is when you are editing a video and you spend hours editing a video If it crashes at the end It makes you want to take your computer and just throw it across the room and smash it into as many little pieces as possible Because it's just like it always crashes at the end Okay, it never crashes at the beginning like if it crashed at the beginning who cares I haven't spent any time on this yet. I can just start over again, you know And while I've gotten into the habit of saving things of course like every time I do a cut I pretty much do a save because I don't want to lose anything. You know that one time that I've forgotten to save That's when it's gonna crash. Yeah I'm a little salty. I just want them to make it better and I wish Hardly that I was a good developer or developer at all that I could help them, you know It would be so cool if I could you know, you know roll my you know imaginary sleeves because it's like 90 degrees I'm not wearing long long sleeves, but I could you know, just dive in and get my hands dirty and try to help them out But I'm not a developer at all all I can do is sit here and bitch about it So I feel useless about the whole situation and there are no good alternatives. There are just no good alternatives I hear people say good things about the Vinci Resolve. I don't care that it's not false I would I would pay money for Adobe Premiere right now. That's how frustrated I am I just want something that will allow me to do this Quickly because I don't want to spend three hours on a 30-minute video anymore ever again ever like seriously Never ever again. I will just scrap that video if that ever happens can It's I can't even begin to tell you how bad that video was yesterday in terms of actually editing it So that's how desperate I am for a good Video editor on Linux like I would pay money like I for the most part I think that the Adobe creative cloud cloud is at the big like the biggest scam in the history of the scams Like that thing is so overpriced. It's ridiculous Like they know that creators use their products to make money Therefore they think that they can charge or whatever they want and get away with it, which apparently they can You know, I mean, there's no good alternatives to any of the Adobe products really There's nothing out there that is like feature for feature as good The Vinci Resolve probably comes close blender is probably up there but you know for the most part if you want to do creative work Adobe has the stuff and Therefore you have to pay for it But I would right now I would pay that money to have a good one And I don't want to I want to use Kaden live and I'm gonna continue to use Kaden live because there's not any other good options out there for Linux, but I Just desperately wanted to be better. I'm so depressed about it. Honestly, like every time this happens I think man I need a new video editor and then they go look at the other videos like I did about downloaded patevi again today And I'm gonna give it a try again, but it's so simple. It's like I don't mind simplicity But they're they take simplicity to a like a whole new level Shotcut looks like it was built in the 1980s It's basically the audacity of of video editors at least the brief look that I had it at like six months ago and Really looks doesn't matter but still I couldn't get into it I don't know. Maybe I need to give it another try or something Maybe there's a better option if you have another option not for video editing I would love to hear it. You can leave those in the comment section below I need to stop ranting right now. I've been ranting for 17 minutes. 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