Back in my teenage years I remember making music videos to my favorite songs in WMM. It didn’t require any previous knowledge about cutting or other video editing tools. It was just simple and intuitive.
Is there an equivalent for Linux that’s as easy as intuitive as WMM was? Something I could put in front of someone without previous knowlegde in editing and they could still wrap their heads around in just a few minutes?
(And please don’t say Kdenlive. Have you ever tried to add a simple effect like blur to a part of a video? It’s super cumbersome.)
What is your issue with blur? As long as you understand the intuitive “everything is an effect” methodology that Kdenlive follows, blurring a portion of the screen is straightforward. Note these clips in which I had blurred the credits appearing onscreen so they do not clash with the captions I added. Add a blur effect, then a crop effect.
Woah you can crop a blur? That’s pretty neat
Yep! And you should also try blurring a cropped layer instead of cropping a blurred layer. The former is technically what I had actually done with the two GIFs above. The order in which those two effects are stacked can make a significant difference.
I had to rewatch that bottom one a few times, it completely escaped me
Are you saying that the credits were well obscured and that you couldn’t even tell that something was blurred? Or that you had a difficult time being able to discern what is even going on in the GIF? I made these from scratch, so I am absolutely open to any constructive criticism to help me improve my technique.
You did a great job obscuring them!
I didn’t even get a hint of that credit blurred at all. I saw your comment and watched it with intention looking out for the credits and it was on the 3rd rewatch I caught them. The first one is more obvious because it was in the open space, but the one with Jenna was imperceptible at first and the only I noticed was because it was brought up
Nice work with the OC!! It’s very smooth and something I’d expect to see in highqualitygifs
Thanks for the feedback. While creating these, I always felt like I could have put more effort into removing the credits to make them imperceptible. But I am glad to hear that the simple blur job was effective enough.
And it was!
https://quokk.au/c/high_quality_gifs/p/599185/when-you-see-someone-who-actually-puts-time-and-effort-into-practicing-the-same-kind-of-art