True, but Blender is free as in awesome, free and freedom. They’re making movies with it.
Also, DaVinci is old school in that the free version is pretty good for beginners. I bought the lifetime version for a one time fee. For now, it’s better than premiere pro.
I’ve tried it. It’s an extremely powerful alternative to Lightroom. It was my tool of choice for the last year or more. But it really is the epitome of what people complain about with open source. It feels like a bunch of features just thrown at a wall with no regard for UX. Even its own loyal users will tell you how ridiculous it can be that there are multiple seemingly redundant ways to do the same thing.
And it provides very little guidance on how or why to use the different options.
I’ve just recently started trying this out. It’s far too early to give any real conclusions yet. I think I like its basic editing feel a lot more than Darktable, but it’s still far too early for me to say. I haven’t even finished going through the first project I decided to edit with it.
And to be honest, part of the reason I’m looking at these at all isn’t even about open source. It’s that I have become dissatisfied with Lightroom. Specifically, with its file management aspects. If I could just have Lightroom 🏴☠️ with file management that didn’t feel like a pain in the arse every time I touch it, I’d be happy.
I’m mostly very happy with the latest version of it. It seems to have a really great UX now. It finally feels like an adequate replacement to Photoshop in many ways, which it certainly did not prior to the recent-ish major redesign.
Except that it is insanely resource-intensive. For some reason a fairly simple project consisting of nine 25-ish MB jpegs and basic layer masks ended up for me as 1.5 GB compressed, and I think it may have been 5.7 GB uncompressed, based on what its UI was telling me. This made it painfully slow, in addition to the ridiculous amount of disk space it took up.
And it still unnecessarily fails to have sensible defaults, as I experienced in this thread, though thankfully the wonderfully friendly @oeuf@slrpnk.net was able explain how to fix its broken settings.
If you don’t care about the Lightroom replacement being open source you could check out the Davinci Resolve beta that was released recently. They added a photo mode with library management. It’s relatively barebones but it might be enough for you.
I would certainly prefer open source, but yeah, closed source is not a dealbreaker.
I’ve actually been using DaVinci Resolve an an NLE for a while now. A bunch of things about it frustrate me, but I think having experienced FCPX I’m never going to not be frustrated by any other NLE. But as far as track-based NLEs go, I’ve definitely really enjoyed Resolve.
I had no idea it had a photo mode. I’m definitely…sceptical of a photo mode in a video editor. But I’m also very intrigued! Will definitely give it a look at some point.
The great free software that works on windows and I have personally tried (some are only free for personal use, but others are completely free):
Have not tried
If some adobe chump can’t figure out how to install and use this program, then that’s on them. Completely unhinged meme.
btw blender also has 2d animation, a video editor, compositing suite and physics sim
Some of those are free as in beer, but not free as in freedom. Relevant distinction to keep in mind.
True, but Blender is free as in awesome, free and freedom. They’re making movies with it.
Also, DaVinci is old school in that the free version is pretty good for beginners. I bought the lifetime version for a one time fee. For now, it’s better than premiere pro.
I’ve tried it. It’s an extremely powerful alternative to Lightroom. It was my tool of choice for the last year or more. But it really is the epitome of what people complain about with open source. It feels like a bunch of features just thrown at a wall with no regard for UX. Even its own loyal users will tell you how ridiculous it can be that there are multiple seemingly redundant ways to do the same thing.
And it provides very little guidance on how or why to use the different options.
Ironically, that post is from a thread about…
I’ve just recently started trying this out. It’s far too early to give any real conclusions yet. I think I like its basic editing feel a lot more than Darktable, but it’s still far too early for me to say. I haven’t even finished going through the first project I decided to edit with it.
And to be honest, part of the reason I’m looking at these at all isn’t even about open source. It’s that I have become dissatisfied with Lightroom. Specifically, with its file management aspects. If I could just have Lightroom 🏴☠️ with file management that didn’t feel like a pain in the arse every time I touch it, I’d be happy.
I’m mostly very happy with the latest version of it. It seems to have a really great UX now. It finally feels like an adequate replacement to Photoshop in many ways, which it certainly did not prior to the recent-ish major redesign.
Except that it is insanely resource-intensive. For some reason a fairly simple project consisting of nine 25-ish MB jpegs and basic layer masks ended up for me as 1.5 GB compressed, and I think it may have been 5.7 GB uncompressed, based on what its UI was telling me. This made it painfully slow, in addition to the ridiculous amount of disk space it took up.
And it still unnecessarily fails to have sensible defaults, as I experienced in this thread, though thankfully the wonderfully friendly @oeuf@slrpnk.net was able explain how to fix its broken settings.
If you don’t care about the Lightroom replacement being open source you could check out the Davinci Resolve beta that was released recently. They added a photo mode with library management. It’s relatively barebones but it might be enough for you.
I would certainly prefer open source, but yeah, closed source is not a dealbreaker.
I’ve actually been using DaVinci Resolve an an NLE for a while now. A bunch of things about it frustrate me, but I think having experienced FCPX I’m never going to not be frustrated by any other NLE. But as far as track-based NLEs go, I’ve definitely really enjoyed Resolve.
I had no idea it had a photo mode. I’m definitely…sceptical of a photo mode in a video editor. But I’m also very intrigued! Will definitely give it a look at some point.