First post, by Jed118
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Hello,
I have a Precision T7500 Xeon (E5630, waiting on an E5649 upgrade) with 24 Gb RAM and plenty of scratch space in a RAID 0 setup . It is probably the fastest computer I have in here (II have a newer Phenom II 1055t 6 core lying around too)
I do my editing in Openshot 2.4.3 on Ubuntu 16.04. Video card is a GTX 650 (doesn't matter because all the rendering is done by the CPU) I realize the hardware specs are close to a decade old, however, can someone recommend a decent editing suite? I'm trying to edit a 720P dashcam file in AVI format (5 min file, about 550 Mb) and it's absurdly slow. Click to save - computer locks up for 5 mins. Click on Export? 3 min lockup. Cut the video file? 15-60 seconds of waiting.
It is pretty much unusable, but it wasn't always this way. Something is bloating this thing down, I think. I've also tried Openshot in Windows 10, and as soon as the file gets a little too complicated, or heaven forbid I accelerate some video, massive lag. I've also tried kdenlive, but it looks like a steep learning curve.
My goal is to create 10-15 min videos with some acceleration at times, a few effects (basic transitioning, sound track adding and volume manipulation, insertion of images) - closer to an MSPAINT piece of software rather than full blown Photoshop.
Recommendations?
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