[anthonybennis]

This was the main reason I left Linux. It had everything I needed, Blender for 3D, GIMP for photo editing, Krita for painting and Gravit Designer for Vector illustrations (not open source). But I just could not use OpenShot, KDENlive and others. The UX killed my time. I had to look up documentation to do some very basic tasks (smooth cross fade, Pan and Zoom etc). I think there's great potential in a "Windows Movie Maker" type video editor and OpenShot could come close with some UI tweaks.

[slantyyz]

There haven't been a lot of things that I miss after moving from OSX to Windows, but one of the things I do miss is iMovie.

Windows Movie Maker was an OK substitute, but it's basically no longer available.

There definitely is a market for an inexpensive quick and dirty editor. I purchased Cyberlink and Corel video editing software, but because they're more "powerful" than I need, I feel as though I need to jump through UI hoops to do simple quick cuts, which is most of the video work I do.

[Nexxxeh]

If you have Blender in muscle memory, is using it as a video editor an option for you? Supposedly it's pretty good once you get over the learning curve, does knowing Blender for 3D help with that?

[nickjj]

I tried Blender for many hours. It's not even in the same galaxy as a dedicated screencast editing tool like Camtasia.

Even adding something as simple as a good looking text overlay in Blender was a massive undertaking and it didn't look anywhere near as nice as Camtasia out of the box.

It was also extremely slow when editing videos. Like the timeline and preview were super laggy on a basic 1080p recording of my desktop.