I downloaded the oldest version of shotcut on their GitHub(14.05), but that gives me an error saying that I don’t have OpenGL 2.0.
I have an old laptop with a 2.7GHz Intel Celeron and 2 GB of RAM, this is the only free video editor I can find of that has chroma key but if anyone knows another one that will work on these specs that will be fine too.
You can also try older versions of kdenlive and openshot, both are free and open source like shotcut.
I also used to have a software called virtualdub, not very full fledged, but there was a third party plug in that allowed chroma key.
I will list some more softwares that you can use:-
Wax 2.0 by debugmode
Flowblade
Both are free, and flowblade seems to be constantly updated. But I think flowblade might lag, so for now I think openshot and kdenlive are the best, if shotcut does not work for you.
kdenlive 18.04… I use it as the default, only when playing videos with filters it gets stuck, you have to disable them.
You should create a swap file of at least 6GB to compensate for the memory!
Just don’t do this on a ssd please, going to reduce the read write cycle, recommended only for fast HDD’s.
Hi, I really don’t know about this, but I don’t put much faith in this SSD lifespan thing because there’s no proof:
For example, you can consider a 200 GB SSD, from this data, you can also calculate the TBW. As you can write 200 GB for 365 days for five years, the total TBW will be:
200*365*5= 365,000 GB, or
365 TB writes
The million dollar question would be what is the average number of writes a full-time user would have, is it really 100 GB or less (at least 10/15 years)?
My computer has 9.5GB of memory and the swap is rarely used, but Kdenlive and Firefox sometimes choke the system.
I have a Kingston USB2 drive, from 2006… it’s had Debian installed on it for many years with daily updates; I used it all through college, all my life to date for storage, now I have Porteus on it in one partition as a rescue system and the other for data in FAT.
I’m pretty sure it must have already passed any “entropy” threshold, despite what the gnome disk utility says -which I haven’t checked-!
In the end, my idea is to not have to be making a swap partition.
Thanks for the suggestion, that’s why I make images of “/home” and the root!
Your laptop might not meet Shotcut’s needs, but OpenShot is another free option with chroma key and should run better.
I bought my SSD around 2012. It has been working as a system drive all this time. I had 8 GB and later 16 GM RAM in my computers. I don’t know how accurate the SMART readings are regarding working time and the amount of data processed, but it’s been about twelve years.
There are many long-distance SSD long term tests available on the internet.
SSDs like to have a sufficient amount of free space.
Some flash drives (memory card, pendrive) last for many years and others break down very quickly.
Technically yes, but in practice this is not that significant. You’ll likely buy a bigger ssd way before this one dies.
For example my 500GB OS ssd is 8 years old, has had swap enabled on it (automatic size) since the beginingand it is currently at 73% life remaining. Until last year it was the main game drive and was very often filled at over 80%. I bought a 2TB ssd already but my motherboard has 2 nvme slots so I just decided to use them both. I bet in 2-3 years I’ll get a 4TB drive for a good price and this drive will just get thrown away with over 50% life left.
why do this and not use the newest version ???
Really depends on the person, me? Yeah surely I will. Not everybody though, I have had a ssd die before just because of swap files. And anyone who’s using a video editor really has different file sizes, sometimes 10mb or sometimes 100gb, really depends on them how quickly they gonna end those cycles. My system constantly hit swap when I enabled it. Honestly after losing the data in that ssd, I just prefer my system to crash and not hit swap than to lose all my data.
I don’t really think swaps are that good for anything other than preventing crashes, it’s very slow.
Three words
LOW SYSTEM SPECS
very low actually … and missing many new tools
Man that thing literally beats the 5090 in every aspect, this is a beast of performance
What do you mean by very low, it’s extremely powerful