What open-source video editors are available with 4k capabilities?

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Are there any open-source video editors available for Ubuntu that have 4k exportation capabilities?

If not, are there any proprietary (free or paid) license video editors with these skills?

I will accept an answer the day before the bounty expires, just in case something amazing appears. — Lewis Goddard, Sep 28 '12 at 11:56

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '12 at 19:08

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Looks like Lightworks will be available for ubuntu next month.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/oscar-winning-video-editor-lightworks-landing-on-linux-in-october

Lightworks running on Ubuntu

answered Sep 18 '12 at 19:08

Nate

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I myself cannot wait to see it! AFAIK 4K is for the pro version only. – nanofarad Sep 18 '12 at 20:02
The pro version should be $60. However no pricing was available for the alpha release. – Nate Sep 18 '12 at 20:12
Only $60? That's a really good deal. *off-topic*. Anyway, welcome to Ask Ubuntu and I hope you will be around for some time. – nanofarad Sep 18 '12 at 20:12

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '12 at 07:12

Blender has an integrated Video Sequencer and supports 4K cinema resolution, a proof of that is that Sintel, a movie produced with blender, is available for download in 4K :)

http://www.blendernation.com/2011/02/20/sintel-4k-available/

More information about Blender here:

http://www.blender.org/

You can obviously install Blender from the Ubuntu Software Center.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 22 '20 at 05:45

Openshot, Shotcut,and Kdenlive now support the editing and export of 4K videos.

Among them, the fastest editor should be Shotcut as it allows you to create optimized media and take utilization of GPU acceleration.
Kdenlive is stable on Linux system, but temporarily not quite stable on Windows.And it doesn't support GPU acceleration and multi core CPU processing.
Openshot is buggy and more basic.

file-size-with-kdenlive

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 28 '12 at 11:52

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You can try using cinelerra. It is said to have support for 4k videos since August 2004. ^source

To install do these commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinelerra

answered Sep 28 '12 at 11:52

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 05 '15 at 20:14

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You can try using Shotcut (http://www.shotcut.org/bin/view/Shotcut/Features). I haven't tried 4k-Videos it but it says the recent version supports it.

answered Dec 05 '15 at 20:14

Daniel Schär

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 16 '16 at 15:08

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also have a look at http://lumiera.org/ ... still under development

answered Jul 16 '16 at 15:08

Wilfried

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You could add some basic instructions about how to install and use the tool you recommend and describe its important features to improve the quality of your answer. – Byte Commander Jul 16 '16 at 20:46

What open-source video editors are available with 4k capabilities?

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