Thank you for doing Video editor comparisons and tutorial, I downloaded the Openshot and it became my favorite among all hahaha was looking for a video editor to help my son on a school project video editing.
@@AndreaBorman yes indeed, I downloaded the openshot, simple screen recorder and guvcview and did a title and a 2 minute video intro recording and another title then a 4 minutes how to edit video recording which all this 3 downloads I learn from you is amazing. Project all done and ready to be turned in. Thank you again.
Yes although I did like Windows Movie Maker I find Openshot to be better as well. I have not had any crashes but on Windows sometime Windows Live Movie Maker would crash. Though I think it was Windows that was causing it. Because I did have a lot of problems with that on Windows 8. Also Windows Movie Maker 2.1 for Windows XP did not always save the video. I had this problem both on Windows XP as well as on Windows 7 and 8. So it could be the software as well. Now that I am on Linux I don't have to worry about any of the Windows woes.
Wine works with some of Windows software but not Windows Movie Maker or Windows Live Movie Maker. From the website it also seems that many other video software such as media players don't work in Wine. So there is no way you can run Windows Movie Maker or any of the other versions of Movie Maker on Linux. I did try Virtualbox on my laptop but it was not user friendly at all. I did use it some years ago on Linux Mint 17 but they have changed the settings since then. I tried Gnome Boxes but that was no good either. It didn't even boot the ISO's.
@@AndreaBorman The other thing is that video editors sometimes use resources from your graphics card, and virtual machines don't usually have good graphics support. Audio quality also sounds bad on VMs. As such, even if you manage to get Windows working well in VirtualBox or QEMU, the video editing experience wouldn't work well. Glad you stuck to screenshots for the Windows Live portion. As a former Live Movie Maker guy, it was a fun trip down memory lane. Glad there are alternatives out there. I personally run Windows 7/11, macOS 15, and Fedora 40, so I use my Mac to edit videos, but its awesome that we got Openshot for the Linux crowd. I'm a strong believer in cross platform software, so it is really good to see options for everyone!!!
@@grantschilb8019 I would have loved to have showed you a screencast of me using Windows Movie Maker. As well as all of the different versions they had for Windows XP and Vista. But they only work on Windows so you have to have Windows to run them. I don't have any laptops with Windows so I couldn't do the screencast I would have liked with Movie Maker working because none of them work on Linux. I am not even sure if they would work if I had Windows XP or Windows 7. Because both are no longer supported and neither is Windows Movie Maker. So they might not have run anyway. Still we have other alternatives and they do work. Yes I have noticed that the video editors work off of your video drivers. So you still have to have the hardware to run them. Another reason why Movie Maker might not work on Windows now. As Windows 7 is end of live you won't get any updates for anything. So if the drivers are not working that's it. Movie Maker won't work either. I am not even sure if you can install them on Windows 10 or 11 or if they would work. As they were for Windows 7 and older versions of Windows.
@@AndreaBorman Win 10 and 11 can run Windows Movie Maker, but only if you upgraded from a version of Windows with it or if you pirate it. On Linux, it just doesn't run (unless you use a VM as mentioned earlier). The only VM solution I could see working on a laptop is VMware (it supports 3D video acceleration on Windows VMs), but it is very proprietary and got bought out Broadcom (they are very unfriendly to FOSS). For instance, broadcom makes lots of Wi-Fi chips and has done nothing to help with driver support for Linux desktop. Ultimately, it is up to you if you want to go through the trouble of getting it set up.
@@grantschilb8019 I have read some posts and seen some videos on how to install Windows Live Movie Maker on Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft have removed the download link. I remember when I tried to install it on Windows 8, I had to turn off my network because. Microsoft blocks the installer if you try to run it. I think the installer is also a network installer but it installed and ran okay. On Windows 7 and 8 you could also run windows Movie Maker 2.1 from Windows XP and Windows Movie Maker 6 from Windows Vista on Windows 7 and 8. If you copy the files over from those computer running XP and Vista. But I don't know if that would work on 10 or 11. Openshot, Shotcut and Kdenlive all have versions for Windows. So those video editors will work on Windows. They are a good replacement for Movie Maker.
I think the options are there to add animated titles on the clips are there and so is the option to put tiles on the clips. The problem is those settings are hidden away so you don't see them. You have to enable the toolbar that shows those settings. I think I accidentally stumbled on the feature for animated titles without realising it. When I was tweaking around with the settings. I think they should those settings visible not hide them away like that. Most people who are amatures like myself won't know where to find them.
On Windows 10 I used Windows Movie Maker. I liked it but I had some minor issues with it. One of them was copy pasting a frame in the timeline/storyboard. Sometimes pasting worked, sometimes it didn't and to this day I still don't know what made the difference. It seemed completely random. I think Openshot is even better than Windows Movie Maker, it definitely has more features while keeping things simple and user-friendly. The only thing missing is the record from camera feature but that's not really a problem because you can use other software for it.
I used to use Windows Live Movie Maker all the time on Windows 7 and 8. I just used to drag the clips to the storyboard not copy and paste them. I did the same thing on Windows Movie Maker 2.1 and Movie Maker 6. But Windows Live Movie Maker worked better and supported more video files such as MP4. No Openshot doesn't have record from the webcam but then you can use Guvcview or another webcam software for that. So it's not an issue. You can also get extra features on Openshot by installing Blender and Inkscape to create advanced titles. But I find the advanced titles with Blender feature very slow. They work but they take a long time to render. So I just use the ordinary title feature. Openshot can be used on Windows 10 as they also have a Windows version. It should also work on Windows 11. So it's worth trying the Windows version of Openshot if you are using Windows.
Virtual Machines can work, but if you want to keep it fully open source on the host, there aren't really any good options, unless you do a GPU passthrough to a Windows VM. And at that point, it would be better to just keep a spare Windows machine if you had to use Movie Maker. VMware probably could work, but it isn't open source, and I know some Linux users would rather keep their host machine fully open source. I think Openshot works fine for former Windows Movie Maker users, as was shown in this video. I do hope good open source VM software gets proper hardware 3D acceleration for windows guests.
I didn't get on very well with Shotcut. I had problems dragging the video clips to the timeline. I did manage to in the end but it took a lot of messing about. Also Shotcut did not have many features. I think Openshot is better but there are quite a number of video editors out there for Linux. It's just a case of which one you prefer.
Thank you for doing Video editor comparisons and tutorial, I downloaded the Openshot and it became my favorite among all hahaha was looking for a video editor to help my son on a school project video editing.
Yeah Openshot seems to be the best one for Linux. It's so much like Windows Movie Maker which I was using on Windows. So it's easy to adapt to.
@@AndreaBorman yes indeed, I downloaded the openshot, simple screen recorder and guvcview and did a title and a 2 minute video intro recording and another title then a 4 minutes how to edit video recording which all this 3 downloads I learn from you is amazing. Project all done and ready to be turned in. Thank you again.
Great video as always. Personally I think OpenShot alone is far better than Movie Maker.
Yes although I did like Windows Movie Maker I find Openshot to be better as well. I have not had any crashes but on Windows sometime Windows Live Movie Maker would crash. Though I think it was Windows that was causing it. Because I did have a lot of problems with that on Windows 8. Also Windows Movie Maker 2.1 for Windows XP did not always save the video. I had this problem both on Windows XP as well as on Windows 7 and 8. So it could be the software as well. Now that I am on Linux I don't have to worry about any of the Windows woes.
Enjoyed the video. I'm glad you thought of using Wine. Question though, can you not run Windows on a Virtual Machine?
Wine works with some of Windows software but not Windows Movie Maker or Windows Live Movie Maker. From the website it also seems that many other video software such as media players don't work in Wine. So there is no way you can run Windows Movie Maker or any of the other versions of Movie Maker on Linux. I did try Virtualbox on my laptop but it was not user friendly at all. I did use it some years ago on Linux Mint 17 but they have changed the settings since then. I tried Gnome Boxes but that was no good either. It didn't even boot the ISO's.
@@AndreaBorman The other thing is that video editors sometimes use resources from your graphics card, and virtual machines don't usually have good graphics support. Audio quality also sounds bad on VMs. As such, even if you manage to get Windows working well in VirtualBox or QEMU, the video editing experience wouldn't work well. Glad you stuck to screenshots for the Windows Live portion. As a former Live Movie Maker guy, it was a fun trip down memory lane. Glad there are alternatives out there. I personally run Windows 7/11, macOS 15, and Fedora 40, so I use my Mac to edit videos, but its awesome that we got Openshot for the Linux crowd. I'm a strong believer in cross platform software, so it is really good to see options for everyone!!!
@@grantschilb8019 I would have loved to have showed you a screencast of me using Windows Movie Maker. As well as all of the different versions they had for Windows XP and Vista. But they only work on Windows so you have to have Windows to run them. I don't have any laptops with Windows so I couldn't do the screencast I would have liked with Movie Maker working because none of them work on Linux. I am not even sure if they would work if I had Windows XP or Windows 7. Because both are no longer supported and neither is Windows Movie Maker. So they might not have run anyway. Still we have other alternatives and they do work. Yes I have noticed that the video editors work off of your video drivers. So you still have to have the hardware to run them. Another reason why Movie Maker might not work on Windows now. As Windows 7 is end of live you won't get any updates for anything. So if the drivers are not working that's it. Movie Maker won't work either. I am not even sure if you can install them on Windows 10 or 11 or if they would work. As they were for Windows 7 and older versions of Windows.
@@AndreaBorman Win 10 and 11 can run Windows Movie Maker, but only if you upgraded from a version of Windows with it or if you pirate it. On Linux, it just doesn't run (unless you use a VM as mentioned earlier). The only VM solution I could see working on a laptop is VMware (it supports 3D video acceleration on Windows VMs), but it is very proprietary and got bought out Broadcom (they are very unfriendly to FOSS). For instance, broadcom makes lots of Wi-Fi chips and has done nothing to help with driver support for Linux desktop. Ultimately, it is up to you if you want to go through the trouble of getting it set up.
@@grantschilb8019 I have read some posts and seen some videos on how to install Windows Live Movie Maker on Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft have removed the download link. I remember when I tried to install it on Windows 8, I had to turn off my network because. Microsoft blocks the installer if you try to run it. I think the installer is also a network installer but it installed and ran okay. On Windows 7 and 8 you could also run windows Movie Maker 2.1 from Windows XP and Windows Movie Maker 6 from Windows Vista on Windows 7 and 8. If you copy the files over from those computer running XP and Vista. But I don't know if that would work on 10 or 11. Openshot, Shotcut and Kdenlive all have versions for Windows. So those video editors will work on Windows. They are a good replacement for Movie Maker.
22:22 If you're wondering why there's animation in your text it's because you made changes on the timeline to the clip. In short, keyframes.
I think the options are there to add animated titles on the clips are there and so is the option to put tiles on the clips. The problem is those settings are hidden away so you don't see them. You have to enable the toolbar that shows those settings. I think I accidentally stumbled on the feature for animated titles without realising it. When I was tweaking around with the settings. I think they should those settings visible not hide them away like that. Most people who are amatures like myself won't know where to find them.
On Windows 10 I used Windows Movie Maker. I liked it but I had some minor issues with it. One of them was copy pasting a frame in the timeline/storyboard. Sometimes pasting worked, sometimes it didn't and to this day I still don't know what made the difference. It seemed completely random. I think Openshot is even better than Windows Movie Maker, it definitely has more features while keeping things simple and user-friendly. The only thing missing is the record from camera feature but that's not really a problem because you can use other software for it.
I used to use Windows Live Movie Maker all the time on Windows 7 and 8. I just used to drag the clips to the storyboard not copy and paste them. I did the same thing on Windows Movie Maker 2.1 and Movie Maker 6. But Windows Live Movie Maker worked better and supported more video files such as MP4. No Openshot doesn't have record from the webcam but then you can use Guvcview or another webcam software for that. So it's not an issue. You can also get extra features on Openshot by installing Blender and Inkscape to create advanced titles. But I find the advanced titles with Blender feature very slow. They work but they take a long time to render. So I just use the ordinary title feature. Openshot can be used on Windows 10 as they also have a Windows version. It should also work on Windows 11. So it's worth trying the Windows version of Openshot if you are using Windows.
OpenShot isn’t bad, but in my opinion Shotcut and Kdenlive are much more feature-rich (but maybe not everybody needs that functionality)
4:27 you could use Wine or Virtual Machines
Andrea did mention Wine. 🌝
@@StephenSE9 Wine works for some Windows apps but not Windows Movie Maker or Windows Live Movie Maker. So there's no way to run it on Linux.
Virtual Machines can work, but if you want to keep it fully open source on the host, there aren't really any good options, unless you do a GPU passthrough to a Windows VM. And at that point, it would be better to just keep a spare Windows machine if you had to use Movie Maker. VMware probably could work, but it isn't open source, and I know some Linux users would rather keep their host machine fully open source. I think Openshot works fine for former Windows Movie Maker users, as was shown in this video. I do hope good open source VM software gets proper hardware 3D acceleration for windows guests.
@@grantschilb8019 QEMU with Virt-Manager
Great video. Thanks a lot.
Love your stuff and welcome to Linux; we are glad to have your wonderful perspective on how things work
thoughts on shotcut?
I didn't get on very well with Shotcut. I had problems dragging the video clips to the timeline. I did manage to in the end but it took a lot of messing about. Also Shotcut did not have many features. I think Openshot is better but there are quite a number of video editors out there for Linux. It's just a case of which one you prefer.
@@AndreaBorman awesome, thanks