Yes, if I could go back in time and edit my post I would love to see that too.
In Camtasia it was SO easy to do really basic things like...
- Add image to project
- Drag it onto your timeline, it becomes a track
- In the video preview area, use the mouse to move + scale + rotate it and hold ALT to crop
- Optionally fine tune anything you want with text inputs and numbers
The video preview area even had general purpose guidelines for easily centering objects within the video's frame and other tracks relative to your image's track.
It was the most intuitive thing you can possibly use and took seconds to do any type of crop / scale / rotate action.
With Kdenlive, if I want to crop, rotate or scale something I almost always have to find a YouTube tutorial to figure out how to do it. There's 100 ways to do it and all 100 ways are the most user-hostile workflows I've ever seen in any app, like having to manually input X / Y coordinates by hand to move something.
The only reason I don't continue to use Camtasia 9 is because I switched to Linux.
I've made 1,000+ videos and I've absolutely noticed my video quality get worse after I switched to Kdenlive because doing almost anything takes so many more steps. It's like a death by a thousand paper cuts and it makes the video editing process no longer fun.
I wish I knew C++ or I would fix every single thing but I don't. I offered to donate money to the project but it didn't seem like the creators were interested in trading money for features (fair enough). I guess it's just disappointing because the project has really good bones, it has a lot of great features, I want to like using it but the UI for so many super common actions oftentimes leaves me in a state of disbelief.
In Camtasia it was SO easy to do really basic things like...
The video preview area even had general purpose guidelines for easily centering objects within the video's frame and other tracks relative to your image's track.It was the most intuitive thing you can possibly use and took seconds to do any type of crop / scale / rotate action.
With Kdenlive, if I want to crop, rotate or scale something I almost always have to find a YouTube tutorial to figure out how to do it. There's 100 ways to do it and all 100 ways are the most user-hostile workflows I've ever seen in any app, like having to manually input X / Y coordinates by hand to move something.
The only reason I don't continue to use Camtasia 9 is because I switched to Linux.
I've made 1,000+ videos and I've absolutely noticed my video quality get worse after I switched to Kdenlive because doing almost anything takes so many more steps. It's like a death by a thousand paper cuts and it makes the video editing process no longer fun.
I wish I knew C++ or I would fix every single thing but I don't. I offered to donate money to the project but it didn't seem like the creators were interested in trading money for features (fair enough). I guess it's just disappointing because the project has really good bones, it has a lot of great features, I want to like using it but the UI for so many super common actions oftentimes leaves me in a state of disbelief.