 So, a few weeks ago, I put out voting for my Patreon supporters on the next topic and no one voted. So then I sent out another notification to all my Patreon supporters and again, still no one's voted. But I got to start making videos soon. And a few of my viewers voted for option number two in the comments section and since now the Patreon supporters voted, I'm going to go ahead and go with option two, which is open source video editing. So over the next couple of weeks, we're going to be looking at two different programs. Kaden Live, which is a great video editor that I use for almost every one of my videos. And also Blender, which main focus is in video editing but has all the basic video editing functionality that you need and it's cross-platform and extremely stable. But this is an instruction to Kaden Live. Kaden Live, let me get some things clear. I hear lots of times people saying Kaden Live isn't any good, that it crashes all the time, it's unstable and those people are somewhat right. I've been using Kaden Live for like five years now and I can tell you when I first started using it, I've been using it for everything for the last five years, I tried using it before that and it was very unstable. And then all of a sudden it started working and then it started crashing and then it started working and then something would crash. And what has happened over the years, at least with older versions, is it seems like they would have a really good release and then the next release would be very bad and buggy and crash all the time. And I have found that a lot of Linux distributions, such as Linux Mint and Ubuntu, which share repositories for a lot of stuff, last I checked, they tend to have a pretty old version of Kaden Live, which is unstable, which is probably why a lot of people think it was unstable. I used Debian SID, which is fairly up to date. It's an unstable operating system and what has happened over the years, although it's actually been pretty stable for me for quite a while, no, I can't remember the last time I've had Kaden Live crash on me, but I would say up until probably about a year ago, what was happening was, again, I'd upgrade my install of Kaden Live through the repositories and I either would get a good install or it would crash. Usually when this something in particular was, you know, it's this one bug. Whenever I do this, it crashes. It was obviously a bug related to that. And what I would normally do then is just go to the Kaden Live website and download whatever their latest binary was or compile from source. Actually, I'm not sure if I've ever actually compiled it from source, but I would get whatever the binaries they had there. Normally I would not suggest doing that. I always suggest sticking with repositories, but there are a few exceptions. And Kaden Live is one of those ones that was just under development so much that I would go to their website to get stuff sometimes because what I was getting from my repositories were crashing. But I've been using what's been inside the Debian repositories for the last year or so and I haven't had any crashing problems. So that being said, if you're going to use Kaden Live and you're having problems with it crashing, it's quite possible just switching the version you're running will fix your problem. It's been under heavy, heavy development. So there's constantly changes. So don't give it a bad rap because you have a problem with one version crashing. Either downgrade to a previous version or make sure you have the newest version. And if you're using distribution, again, I haven't checked in a while, but last time I checked, Ubuntu is running a very old version of Kaden Live, which would be acceptable if it was a stable version, but they were running a version that just crashed all the time. Luckily, Kaden Live does have a recovery. If it does crash, when you restart it, it asks if you want to recover. And usually it has everything up to maybe the very last change you made. So that being said, it definitely has room for improvement, but I think it's a great program. And as far as video editing, I think it's the best open source one on the list that I've used and I've played around with other ones and have had issues with them, maybe their tricks to getting them to work. But as of right now, Kaden Live, version 16 is something I think I'm running. I could be wrong on that. We'll check when we start the tutorials. But I just want to get that off, get that going. If you're going to go use Kaden Live and it's crashing, check if you have the newest, if not get the newest version. If you have the newest version, try downgrading to the previous version because it really seemed like that. Like they'd have a really, it wasn't labeled stable release, but they would have a very stable release. It'd be working great for three or four months and then I upgrade it. And all of a sudden, every time I went to add a transition, it would crash. And then I would downgrade to the previous version. And then next time, a few months later, I would check to be a new version. I'd upgrade and it worked fine. And then a few months later, they'd upgrade again. And now every time I try to add a layer effect, it would crash or something along those lines. So that's what I've got to say about Kaden Live. I am not here to say that it is the best program in the world, but I'm saying that it does work. It is stable if you get the right version. And it does everything you need for basic video editing and very basic special effects. If you want to get into more like deep special effects, Blender's probably more the way you want to go. And we're not going to get into that too much because we're going to be looking at just basic video editing. 99% of what you're doing, you know, color corrections, trimming stuff down, fades, audio stuff, layering effects, that sort of thing. So now that I've said that, let's go ahead and check out the first tutorial. So go ahead, hopefully I remember to put an annotation somewhere here. Hopefully, I don't forget. Sometimes I do. And you know, check that out. That's our first video. And we're just going to go over the basics of the interface. And just be sure to watch this entire playlist. It'll be a new video each week. And then we'll also be looking at Blender. Basically, yeah. When we're done with this, you should be able to create your own movie or home movie at home with ease. So thanks for watching. And I hope you have a great day. Check out this link. Check out my website, Films by Chris.com. Have a great day.