The 2.4.1 version of Openshot is actually a complete rewrite of using totally different technologies (libopenshot instead of the MeLT framework), so in a lot of ways it's a lot less mature than the "older" version 1.3.

You were probably better off with the latest of the first generation of OpenShot.

Try Kdenlive, the 9.6 version in Trusty wasn't terrible, and it was definitely already the most capable editor back then.  It probably won't crash with what you want to do with it, but even if it does it's got a very good emergency save mechanism that will allow you to pick and continue where you left off... just make sure that you have it saved at least once.  I usually create a new project and immediately save it where I want it to make sure that I get the emergency save functionality kicked in.

Brian Cluff


On 11/18/2017 09:29 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
The newer version of Openshot is OK. It sill crashes on almost every move of a clip in a track, but at least it does not exit! Very painful editing, but it is now creating my video, so I will see how it turns out.

I run gnome, so I assume kdenlive is not supported?

Mark

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com> wrote:
Give kdenlive a try. 

On Nov 18, 2017 10:53 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
I have some clips and jpgs I need to combine in to a movie. Simple stuff...jpg as title at the start, fade into first clip, fade into shortened version of second clip. Boost audio tracks as needed. I am running an uptodate Ubuntu 14.04 from system 76.

I tried openshot...crashed twice.

Tried Pitivi-ei-ei-o. The controls from the track headers are missing and it crashed, too.

Looked at Kino. It does not seem to fit my model for editing. I am looking for a playback window, some tracks to add my content, and controls to manage the tracks. Any good and short tutorials? Really don't want to spend months on this project!

Thanks! 

Mark

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