Introduction:

Zoom is a very popular video chat application. It became all the more useful and famous within these days of the COVID-19 pandemic in which every communication was virtualized since physical interactions were strictly forbidden. This application comes with some of the most amazing features, which is the sole reason for its popularity among the general public. By looking at the title of this article, you might think that the interface of this application is already quite appealing. Then what is even the need of changing its background?

So first let us try to clear out this misconception that what does changing the background in Zoom actually means. We know that whenever we are on a video call with someone, our actual background is displayed on the screen and also shared with the other communicating parties. However, we also realize that when an actual video is being transmitted over the network, it consumes a lot of bandwidth. It happens because of the frames that change every second. Therefore, there should be some way of optimizing bandwidth usage.

How about if during a video call, only your own self is being displayed whereas your background remains still? Well, you can achieve this goal by changing the background in Zoom. Doing this will essentially set a static virtual background that will be used during the video calls and hence your bandwidth will definitely be conserved. Therefore, today we will be talking about the method of changing the background in Zoom in Ubuntu 20.04. However, by following the very same procedure, you can even achieve this goal on any other Linux distribution as well.

Prerequisites:

You need to have the Zoom application installed on your Ubuntu 20.04 system. However, if you do not have it, then you can easily install it by following our tutorial on Zoom Installation on Ubuntu 20.04.

Method of Changing the Background in Zoom in Ubuntu 20.04:

For changing the background in Zoom in Ubuntu 20.04, we need to perform all the steps that are listed below:

Step # 1: Look for the Zoom Application in Ubuntu 20.04:

If the Zoom application is installed on your Ubuntu 20.04 system, then you can access it simply by searching for it in the Activities menu. The Zoom search result is highlighted in the following image. You need to click on the highlighted icon to launch the Zoom application in Ubuntu 20.04.

Step # 2: Sign in to your Zoom Account:

Now you need to sign in to your Zoom account so that you can easily change its background. For that, you need to click on the Sign In option located on the landing page of the Zoom application.

After clicking on this option, you will be required to provide your login credentials and then click on the Sign In button as highlighted in the image shown below:

Step # 3: Access the Settings of the Zoom Application:

Once you have gained access to your Zoom account, you need to click on the Settings icon to access its settings as highlighted in the following image:

Step # 4: Head on to the Background and Filters Settings:

In the Zoom Settings window, you need to click on the Background and Filters tab to change the background of the Zoom application.

Step # 5: Download the Desired Background:

In the Background and Filters settings tab, you will be able to see your current live video in a small panel. You basically want to change the background of your live video. So, for doing that, you have to select a background listed under the Virtual Backgrounds section by clicking on it as highlighted in the image shown below:

As soon as you will select a desired virtual background, a dialogue box will pop up on your screen from which you will have to click on the Download button to start downloading the selected background.

The download progress bar of our selected background is shown in the following image:

Step # 6: Verify if the Background in Zoom has been Changed or not:

For verifying if the background in Zoom has been changed or not, you simply have to wait till the download of your selected background completes. Once it does, you will be able to see the selected background in your live video panel instead of your actual background as shown in the image below:

Conclusion:

By following the procedure described in this article, one can easily change the background of the Zoom application whenever he wants. In this way, you can ensure efficient bandwidth utilization.

Problem: Zoom video filters not available

Video filters not available in Zoom for Linux. To confirm this issue, we have installed the latest version of Zoom on three Linux distributions: Ubuntu 20.04, Mint 20, and CentOS 8. On all three distributions, there was no Background and Filters tab available. Instead, there was a tab named Virtual Background which allows you to change your Zoom background.

Here are the screenshots for the Zoom interface for all the three different Linux distributions:

Zoom application in Ubuntu 20.04

This is the Zoom interface on Ubuntu 20.04 OS where there is no option available for the video filters.

Zoom application in Mint 20

This is the Zoom interface on Mint 20 OS where there is no option available for the video filters.

Zoom application in CentOS 8

This is the Zoom interface on CentOS 8 OS where there is no option available for the video filters.

Workaround

Although, there is no proper solution available for this limitation. However, if you really need a video filter for your Zoom meetings, you can try it out in Windows OS or MacOS. Although, we have not tried Zoom in MacOS, but for Windows, video filters are available and work well.

How to use Zoom Video filters in Windows/MacOS

For using Zoom video filters, you must have:

• Zoom desktop client version 5.2.0 (42619.0804) or higher
• For Windows, 64-bit OS,
• For MacOS, macOS 10.13 or higher

1. Access the Zoom web portal and make sure the video filters option is enabled. To do so, point your browser at:

https://zoom.us/profile/setting

Now sign in to your Zoom account.

2. Under In Meeting (Advanced) tab, go to the Video filters option. Make sure the slider is in On position as shown in the following screenshot.

3. Now, open the Zoom desktop application in your Windows system and click the cog icon (settings icon).

4. On the left panel in the Zoom application, select Background & Filters tab. Then on the right panel, select the Video Filters tab. From here, you can choose your desired filter.

So this was the temporary workaround for Linux users who are facing issues regarding missing Video filters in Zoom. Hope this helps!

Shading is an act of adding shade to a drawn object to give it a look and a perception of depth. Nobody likes white bland 3D objects. In 3D modeling, it is very significant to give objects some color material or texture. The process of adding shades to color materials and textures is called shading. Shading is so essential in 3D modeling that Blender has a dedicated workspace for shading.

Shading workspace will automatically bring us in the “Look Dev” mode. Look Dev mode approximates lights and gives a general idea of the output of the object or scene. The shader editor will show the shader nodes of the selected object. Every object in Blender can be assigned a default material with white shading. And these shaders can be manipulated in the Shading workspace. You can add material to any object by going into the material tab.

You can edit the shader of every material you created in the scene. You can change material from the “Slot” menu if there are several different materials in the scene. To edit the material, select the material from the “Slot” drop-down menu. Note the material can also be added to the layout workspace.

You can add more material by clicking the “[+]” button or click new. The world also has shader, which can be manipulated by selecting the world in the “Object” drop-down menu, as shown in the following image:

Shading workspace also has a file explorer window, which can be seen in the following image:

This file explorer is quite convenient to navigate and adding image textures and other materials to the scene.

The most important thing in the shading workspace is the shading editor, along with the 3D viewport and file explorer. A shading editor is a node editor specifically designed to edit the shader nodes. Nodes are a bit complex but very powerful to customize the materials. Navigating in the node editor is similar to navigating the viewport.

In node editor, you can add different nodes, like gradient ramps, noise, textures, normals, etc. To add a node, just click on the “Add” button, and for hotkeys, just press “Shift A” you can even search nodes by clicking on search because not every node can be seen in the drop-down menu. Every object has a default shader node, which can be modified by adding materials and textures. All these nodes combine and end at the single output node.

Now let’s learn how to add different shaders:

When you add a new object to the scene, you need to add material to it. That material has a “Principled Shader“. A principled node has all fundamental values which can be modified to get the desired result. For example, the material color can be changed, metallic, specular, and roughness values can be adjusted to get the desired output. The “Principled BSDF” node is shown below:

Output node will stay there; let’s take a glance at some other nodes. Let’s add a “Diffused BSDF” shader. Click on “Add” and “Shift A,” then go to “Shaders > Diffused BSDF“. As the name suggests, it is a diffused shader with only a “Roughness” value to manipulate.

To add the glossy shader, repeat the same process, and select “Glossy BSDF“. To give a metallic look to the material, a “Glossy” shader is used.

But what if we want to combine two shaders and get single output. Here comes the “Mix Shader” node, as shown in the following image:

Gradient ramps are essential when it comes to shading. Now let’s see how to add gradients to the objects and how the node tree of the gradient ramp would look like.

So, add any shape, I am adding a sphere. Then go to Shading workspace, you will see an output node and principled BSDF node.

Now add gradient ramp node, “Shift A > Search > ColorRamp”. Join this node with Principled BSDF; you would not see any distinct change. Now add gradient texture node “Add > Texture > Gradient Texture“. A gradient will be added to the shape; you can change the colors from the “ColorRamp” node.

Conclusion:

There are many more combinations that can be made using these nodes. Blender shading nodes are a very powerful way to shade any object. It is a bit intimidating and complex, and mathematical know-how is recommended. But it is essential to learn these shading tricks to become a good 3D artist.

Writing and editing subtitles in Linux can be a bit time-consuming. You can not only end up intermingling the text but also place them incorrectly. At that moment, a subtitle editing tool/software comes in very handy.

The article will list down some of the top subtitle editing tools on Linux, how to download them and later guide you how to edit subtitles on each tool.

Subtitle Editor

Subtitle Editor is among the most useful tools for editing subtitles in Linux/GNU/BSD. It is a free GTK+3 tool that lets you edit, transform, refine and correct existing subtitles. The best part of it is that it shows sound waves to help match the subtitles to human voices. Besides that, Subtitle Editor allows you to work with various formats that include MPL2, MPSub, Adobe Encore DVD, BITC, MicroDVD, SubViewer 2.0, SBV, Plain Text, SubRip, Spruce STL, Substation Alpha and Advanced Substation Alpha.

Installing Subtitle Editor

You can install the tool on any Linux distro such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Elementary or Debian. Follow the steps below:

Run the command on your terminal to install the application.

If you don’t have the software already, download the tar files from here (https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases) and extract them through the commands:

Editing Subtitles on Subtitle Editor

Once you’re done, play around with adding, editing and transforming subtitles. You can select from a number of options that involve generating waveforms, keyframes, spell checks, style editing, changing timings, text correction, translating, sorting, scaling, joining subtitles and fixing errors.

GNOME Subtitles

When it comes to interactive interfaces, GNOME Subtitles should be your top picks. It is packed with remarkable features that make sure the tool is easy to use, support heavyweight software and do professional edits. The tool supports almost all common text subtitle formats, video previewing, translations and synchronisation.

Installing GNOME Subtitles

GNOME Subtitles can be downloaded on Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and Elementary. To install it, run the commands in the terminal below:

You can also download the repository files from here (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-subtitles/)

Editing Subtitles on GNOME Subtitles

After the installation, run the software to carry out a number of editing operations, which include:

• Translating Subtitles
• Synchronizing timings
• Apply reaction delays
• Shifting subtitles
• Auto-adjusting timings
• Drag and drop text files
• Playback videos after formatting
• Motion playbacks according to video speed
• Editing subtitle headers
• Finding and replacing
• Spell checks
• Subtitle parsing
• Support for over 20 Subtitle file formats

Gaupol Subtitle Editor

Another extremely handy subtitle-editing tool that you can download for your Linux distro is Gaupol. It has a simple interface based on GTK+ toolkit, easy navigations and straightforward usage to convert, transform and change subtitles. Gaupol is great for editing text-based files, bulk editing and creating new subtitles. It also includes a separate Python package named ‘aeidon’ to help read, write and edit text-based files.

Installing Gaupol Subtitle Editor

Gaupol can be used on Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Elementary.

To install Gaupol, download the installer 1.3.1 files from here (https://otsaloma.io/gaupol/)

Now, extract it on your command terminal using the following command:

Note: you need to have the Python version 3.2 or greater, PyGObject 3.6.0 or higher and GTK+ 3.2 for the installer to start executing.

Editing Subtitles on Gaupol

Since Gaupol has a very basic interface, you can easily install and edit subtitles if you are a beginner. It allows to correct text and times so you can match it exactly with the video timeframe. It supports a spell checker, free translation mode for any language you want to translate it to and an auto-detection software. Everything is well organized so you can find whatever you are looking for without any trouble.

Aegisub Subtitle Editor

This tool is for advanced and professional editors who want to fix multiple subtitles at a time with advanced effects in the text files. Although the software looks very old because of the outdated and simple interface, the tool is straightforward, offers a professional comfortable editor above all.

Aegisub by default supports the Advanced SubStation Alpha format, which enables users to add advanced effects, other than the basics. You can not just edit subtitles, but also transform, translate and style them with unique effects along with a live preview.

Installing Aegisub

You can get the Linux installer from the here (http://www.aegisub.org/).

You can also download the PPA files for Ubuntu. Run the commands below to install it:

Now, extract the files through the commands below:

Editing Subtitles on Aegisub

Editing is pretty easy and straightforward once you’re done with the installation phase. Since the interface is simple, everything is on the top of the screen to select and edit. Aegisub also allows you to add subtitles for audio files, do a real-time video preview and experiment new formats as well.

Conclusion:

The above Subtitle Editors are our top picks for creating and amending subtitles in Linux. Since editing requires a lot of hard work and precision that is why have chosen some of the best and useful tools for your ease.

So here is a list of apps that provide an option to set FPS and were able to record 60 FPS videos on my system having a dedicated AMD GPU and Ryzen processor.

Kazam

Kazam is a clutter free and minimalistic app that allows you to record screen activity and capture screenshots. One of the unique features of Kazam is that it can record output from multiple audio channels, together with the ongoing screen recording. Kazam is available in the official Ubuntu repositories and it can be installed in Ubuntu by running the following command:

To enable 60 FPS recording in Kazam, go to its preferences and then set framerate to 60, as shown in the screenshot below.

Following hotkeys can be used to control Kazam:

• Begin recording: <SUPER + CTRL + R>
• Pause recording: <SUPER + CTRL + P>
• Stop recording: <SUPER + CTRL + F>
• Quit Kazam: <SUPER + CTRL + Q>

VokoScreen

VokoScreen can be used to record video and audio via ALSA or PulseAudio. It can also capture webcam stream simultaneously with an ongoing desktop recording and output from digital cameras as well, which is then encoded using FFmpeg in various user selected formats.  VokoScreen is available in the official Ubuntu repositories and it can be installed in Ubuntu by running the following command:

To set up 60 FPS recording in vokoscreen, go to video capture tab and set the value of “Frames” to 60.

You can control VokoScreen through following hotkeys:

• Start recording: <CTRL + SHIFT + F10>
• Pause recording: <CTRL + SHIFT + F12>
• Stop recording: <CTRL + SHIFT + F11>

Simple Screen Recorder

Simple Screen Recorder, contrary to its name, is a feature-rich screen recorder with plethora of options. With a built-in configured wizard, you can configure the recording behavior exactly the way you want, though going through configuration wizard every time to record a video can get a bit annoying.

Simple Screen Recorder is available in the official Ubuntu repositories and it can be installed in Ubuntu by running the following command:

To enable 60 FPS recording, set the frame rate to 60 in configuration wizard, as shown in the screenshot below:

By default, Simple Screen Recorder sets <CTRL + R> as the hotkey for starting, pausing and resuming the video recording. You can customize the hotkey combination in the configuration wizard used for setup of the screen recording.

OBS Studio

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) Studio allows you to record and stream live video content. It supports live RTP streaming to various streaming sites, encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC, unlimited number of scenes and sources, file output to MP4 or FLV, GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming etc. Note that OBS Studio requires an OpenGL 3.2 compatible video card.

OBS Studio is available in the official Ubuntu repositories and it can be installed in Ubuntu by running the following command:

Newer versions can be installed from official PPA provided by the developers of OBS Studio. To install latest build from PPA, run the following commands one by one:

When you first launch OBS Studio, you will get an option in auto configuration wizard to set frame rate of the output video. You can set it to 60 FPS. Auto configuration wizard can be launched again from the “Tools” menu.

To start recording in OBS Studio, you will have to add capture sources first. In most cases, “Screen Capture (XSHM)” is used for recording screen activity, “Audio Input Capture (PulseAudio)” is used for capturing voice through a microphone and “Audio Output Capture (PulseAudio)” is used to record system sounds coming out through built-in or externally connected speakers.

OBS Studio supports hotkeys, but comes without any defaults. You have to manually set hotkeys to start, pause and resume recordings from the settings menu.

These are the only apps that had no trouble in recording smooth 60 FPS videos at 1920 x 1080 resolution. OBS Studio is the most featureful and especially useful for live streamers. If you are looking for something that just works with a clean and minimal user interface, I would recommend Kazam instead.

What is Video Cropping?

Cropping a video is often confused with trimming or cutting a video. A video cutter reduces the play time of video by cutting it at various timestamps. For example, a ten second video can be cut to six seconds by cutting it at two seconds and eight seconds.

On the other hand, cropping refers to reducing the visible area of a video by removing fixed sized chunks from all four or some sides of the video rectangle. It works very similar to cropping of an image or screenshot. Note that it is not possible to crop video in place, all apps mentioned below will re-encode the video so make sure to use your desired format and specifications. Explaining every encoding feature of these apps is out of scope of this article.

Let’s get started with our list.

HandBrake

HandBrake is a free and open source cross-platform tool for converting videos into various formats. It can be used to crop videos in Linux.

To install handbrake in Ubuntu, run command:

To start cropping a video, open a new video file in Handbrake, then go to “Dimensions” tab. On the left side, you will see “Cropping” option with input boxes to enter dimensions for all four sides of the video. For unconstrained cropping, you may have to uncheck “Auto Crop”, “Optimal for source” and “Keep Aspect” options. Enter your desired values in these four input boxes.

You can preview how your custom crop looks by going to “Summary” tab. When you are satisfied with the results, click on “Start” button at the top to start re-encoding the video.

FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a command line utility to convert video and audio files. It comes with many filters to customize and re-encode video in various formats.

To install FFmpeg in Ubuntu, run the command below:

To crop a video using FFmpeg, you have to use the built-in crop filter. The command to crop a video looks like this:

Where:

• “in.mp4” refers to the input file to be converted
• “out.mp4” is the name of the output file to be saved after conversion
• out_w is the width of your desired output rectangle to which the original video’s width will be reduced
• out_h is the height of your output rectangle to which the original video’s height will be reduced
• x and y are the position coordinates for the top left corner of your desired output rectangle

If you want to crop a 1280×720 rectangle from a 1920×1080 resolution video with a starting rectangle position of 10, 10; your command would be:

VLC

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that allows you to play, stream and convert audio and video files.

VLC can be installed in Ubuntu by running the following command:

To crop a video in VLC, first go to “Tools” and then click on “Preferences”, as shown in the screenshot below:

Select “All” under “Show settings”:

In the search bar, type “croppadd”, then click on “Croppadd” as shown in the screenshot below. On the right side you will see input boxes to enter dimensions. Click on “Save” when you are done entering values.

We have only customized the crop filter so far, now to actually crop a video, click on “Convert / Save…” option in the “Media” dropdown menu:

On the next screen, click on “Add…” button to add the video you want to be cropped.

Then click on the dropdown arrow next to “Convert / Save” button, followed by a Click on “Convert” button:

Click on the wrench icon to edit the selected profile:

On the next window, click on “Video codec” tab followed by a click on “Filters” tab. Select “Video cropping filter” checkbox and then click on “Save”:

Select a destination file for the cropped video, then click on “Start”:

Wait for VLC to re-encode the video. You have now successfully cropped the video using VLC.

Avidemux

Avidemux is a free and open source video editor that can be used for simple cutting, filtering and encoding.  Linux packages for Avidemux can be downloaded from here.

To start cropping a video, first press <CTRL+O> to open a new file. To crop a video, you will have to use one of the filters available in Avidemux. Note that filter option is sometimes greyed out and unselectable. To fix it, you have to change “Video Output” from “Copy” to any other format as shown in the screenshot below:

Once you followed the above steps, click on “Video” and then click on “Filters”.

Double click on the “Crop” filter on the next window.

On the next screen enter the dimensions to be cut on all four sides of the video. Avidemux will show a preview of cropped video where any green coloured region will be excluded from the final video. Click on “OK” when you are done.

To save changes and re-encode the video, press <CTRL+S>.

WinFF

WinFF is a graphical user interface for FFmpeg command line app. It can convert almost any video file that FFmpeg supports and it can use most of the FFmpeg filters as well.

To start cropping a video in WinFF, click on the “Options” button to enable the “Crop” filter at the bottom. Add a video by clicking on the “Add” button.

Input the dimensions of area you want to clipped away from four sides of the video, then click on “Convert” button. Your video re-encoding will start and you will see some output in a terminal. Wait for the terminal to deliver a success message.

To conclude, these are the easiest and most convenient ways to quickly crop videos in Linux. Most of the utilities mentioned above are available by default in the repositories of all the major Linux distributions for a pain free installation.

In this guide I will list all major desktop YouTube players available today for Linux users. While many popular apps like youtube-dl are available for downloading YouTube videos on Linux, this article will mainly focus on those apps that allows you to search and stream videos on a Desktop Linux PC without having to open a browser. In many cases, these apps will provide advanced functionality than official YouTube website where most of the options are hidden behind a login.

So let’s get started.

Minitube

Pros: Lightweight, easy to use clutter free interface
Cons: None

Minitube is a desktop YouTube application that aims to deliver a TV like experience on the Linux desktop. While being light on resources, it supports lots of YouTube features like a powerful search engine, filters for inappropriate content and channel subscriptions that too without any need to login. Minitube doesn’t require a browser to search and stream videos, thus it preserves battery life. You will also get regular notifications about new video uploads in any of the channels you have to subscribed to in the minitube.

Downloadable packages for minitube can be found here.

Gtk-Youtube-Viewer

Pros: A command line interface is also available, provides the ability to download videos
Cons: User interface is not intuitive

Youtube-viewer / Gtk-youtube-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming videos from YouTube. Written in Perl, this app supports playing videos in a player of your choice and allows you to fine tune search results using all the typical filters available in the official YouTube website. It can display video metadata like video length, number of views, likes and dislikes and comments. It also allows you to log in to your YouTube account enabling two way sync.

Youtube-viewer packages can be downloaded from here.

MotionBox

Pros: Can open multiple videos in tabs
Cons: None

MotionBox is a free, open source and ad-free desktop app that allows you to browse and stream Torrents, YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and SoundCloud videos using DuckDuckGo search API. It features a dark mode, audio only mode and the ability to stream videos upto 4K.

MotionBox for Ubuntu can be downloaded from here.

Mps-youtube

Pros: Cross platform tool really useful for those looking for terminal based apps
Cons: Customization and setup takes a few commands, not beginner friendly

Mps-youtube is a command line utility to search and play audio and video from YouTube. It can also import YouTube playlists, create and save local playlists, download audio or video, show video comments, convert video to mp3 and other formats etc. Installation instructions for various Linux distributions can be found here.

To run mps-youtube, use the command below:

Search example: To search for “Linux”, you have to use a command like this inside mps-youtube terminal:

Note that by default, mps-youtube plays audio only. To enable video playback, you have to run the command below while mps-youtube is running in a terminal.

You can know more about all the features and customization options by typing “help” inside mps-youtube console.

FreeTube

Pros: Privacy oriented
Cons: Feels more like a website than a native app

FreeTube is a free and open source desktop YouTube player built in Electron. It displays YouTube videos without advertisements and prevents Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Some of the FreeTube features include the ability to subscribe to channels without an account, watch history, dark theme, mini player etc. Note that this app is currently in beta. Though I found it to be pretty stable in my testing, you can encounter bugs, crashes and missing features here and there.

FreeTube desktop app is available for Windows, Mac and Linux and it can be downloaded from here.

Kaku

Pros: Also supports streaming services other than YouTube
Cons: Linux app looks and behaves like a macOS app, no native theming

Kaku is a free and open source music and video player that supports different online platforms like YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo etc. Built in Electron, it is available for Windows, Linux and macOS. Some of the Kaku features include DJ mode, local watch history, play queue, ability to import YouTube playlists, desktop notifications and region selection.

Linux packages for Kaku can be downloaded from here.

This marks the end of this article. Even though the options are very limited for Linux YouTube apps, these apps bake in a lot of additional features over the official YouTube website like audio only music player mode, ability to download videos and dark mode. My personal favorite of all these apps is Minitube, a simple, elegant and fully functional app that is a pleasure to use.

What’s great about most Linux video editing software applications is that they tend to be free and open source, which means that anyone can peek under the hood and implement new features or fix bugs. The video editors featured in this article are loosely arranged according to their popularity, but we recommend you go through the entire list because even less popular video editors have a lot to offer.

1. Kdenlive

Pros: Large community, manageable learning curve, powerful multi-track editing capabilities.

Cons: Buggy on Windows and macOS.

If you’re looking for a Linux alternative to Adobe Premier, look no further. Kdenlive is a fantastic free and open source video editing software with a polished user interface, powerful features, thriving community, and comprehensive documentation.

It has been used by many professional and aspiring filmmakers alike, and you can see some of the content it has helped to create on its official website. Unlike Adobe Premiere, Kdenlive doesn’t cost a single dollar, and it works on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

2. DaVinci Resolve

Pros: State-of-the-art colorization tools, professional in every way, 8K support.

Cons: Doesn’t run well on less powerful machines.

DaVinci Resolve is arguably the most professional Linux video editing software. It’s the only video editor that can confidently edit 8K video footage, including color correction, visual effects, and post-production.

The latest version of DaVinci Resolve features a dual timeline that allows users to quickly navigate the whole edit and trim without zooming and scrolling. There’s also a brand-new video editing engine that leverages machine learning to enable features such as facial recognition, speed warp, and others. All in all, DaVinci Resolve shows just how far Linux video editors have come over the years.

3. OpenShot

Pros: Easy to use, multi-platform, free.

Cons: Buggy, lacks features, not ready for primetime yet.

OpenShot is a popular Linux video editor with a tremendous amount of potential but also a tremendous number of bugs and performance issues. If you’re looking for a simple video editor that you can use to quickly trim down your videos or stitch multiple clips together, OpenShot might work great for you.

But if you want to do more than that (work on large projects, apply visual effects and animations, color-correct video clips), you should probably avoid OpenShot until its developers fix at least some of the bugs that plague it at the moment.

4. Olive

Pros: Easy to understand, fully-featured, very active development.

Cons: In relatively early stages of development.

Olive is perhaps the most promising Linux video editor at the moment. It bridges the gap between hobbyist and professional video editors by offering a polished yet easy-to-understand video editing environment for non-linear video editing.

Even though Olive is in the early stages of development (version 0.1.0 Alpha at the time of writing this article), some users are already using it to produce content on a regular basis, and its developers are making rapid progress, which is evident from their activity on GitHub. Hopefully, they’ll be able to keep up the current pace and give all Linux users the video editor they deserve.

5. Shotcut

Pros: Support for hundreds of codecs, easy to work with, stable.

Cons: Lacking documentation.

Shotcut has been around for more than a decade, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s one of the most stable and dependable video editors out there. Thanks to FFmpeg, it supports hundreds of codecs, allowing users to edit video clips recorded by obscure video cameras without having to first convert them to a different video file format.

The user interface of Shotcut has a lot in common with Vegas Pro, which is a proprietary video editor that was originally published by Sony before it was purchased by Magix. The user interface consists of multiple dockable and undockable panels, which can be easily moved elsewhere.

6. Lightworks

Pros: Good performance, used on many Hollywood movies, many features.

Cons: Poor user interface, free for only 7 days.

Lightworks is a feature-packed video editor with a truly impressive resume. It was used on movies such as The Wolf of Wall Street, LA Confidential, and Pulp Fiction, and there’s nothing stopping you from seeing first-hand why so many professionals like it because you can download it for free and use for 7 days without paying. If you decide that Lightworks is worth your money, you can upgrade to Lightworks Pro and unlock additional features.

Like many professional software applications, Lightworks doesn’t exactly have the most approachable user interface out there. In fact, some users of Adobe Premier have called it “nightmarish,” but we wouldn’t go as far. That said, it certainly requires some getting used to, so keep that in mind.

7. Pitivi

Pros: Uses Gstreamer, free and open source.

Cons: Doesn’t support hardware acceleration.

Pitivi could be described as the Linux alternative to Windows Movie Maker. Both video editors have a clear user interface that doesn’t present its users with a steep learning curve, and both are intended to help regular people express themselves through videomaking. Of course, Windows Movie Maker is no longer in development, whereas Pitivi is developed by a fantastic community of people who believe in open source software.

Pitivi is based on GStreamer, a pipeline-based multimedia framework whose purpose is to link together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. What this means for Pitivi users is that they can import just about any video file format and render projects using any supported container and codec combination.

8. Cinelerra

Pros: 8K support, wide array of editing features.

Cons: Doesn’t support as many codecs as other video editors.

First released in 2002, Cinelerra is a venerable video editor that works only on Linux. It was actually the first 64-bit non-linear editor in the world, which is quite an achievement considering what competition Cinelerra has.

Cinelerra’s user interface is similar to other non-linear video editors, such as Adobe Premiere and Vegas Pro. Its video editing engine can work in both RGBA and YUVA color spaces and edit 8K footage. Unfortunately, Cinelerra doesn’t support quite as many codecs as other video editors.

9. Avidemux

Pros: Great choice for encoding, sharpening, and de-noising.

Cons: Lacks timeline.

Avidemux isn’t like other video editors on this list. It’s actually a video encoder with basic cutting, filtering, and video processing capabilities. Avidemux comes in handy when you want to quickly convert a video file from one format to another. You can also use it to get rid of image noise or increase the sharpness of your footage.

Using Avidemux for simple video edits is certainly possible, but its lack of proper timeline and multi-track editing makes it less than suitable for the job.

10. Natron

Pros: Powerful alternative to Adobe After Effects.

Cons: Uncertain future.

Natron is an open source compositing software that makes it possible to add various visual and 3D effects to videos using industry-standard tools like keying, roto/rotopaint, and 2D tracking. Its relatively simple user interface hides many layers of complexity, which you can explore at your own pace.

From 2013 to 2018, the development of Natron was supported by Inria, a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. With Inria out of the picture, the future of Natron is not certain.

Conclusion

Regardless of whether you’re looking for a simple video editor to help you edit footage recorded on your last vacation or a professional solution fit for an aspiring filmmaker, there’s no reason to switch to a different operating system because the number of fantastic Linux video editors has never been greater. Best of all, most Linux video editors are available for free, so you can realize all your video-editing aspirations even if you’re on a tight budget.

If you don’t know it already, ffmpeg is a software that does video and audio conversion and editing using filters. It’s the one which supports the greatest number of different codecs. If you already used VLC, then you know a bit ffmpeg: VLC uses ffmpeg to decode as many videos as possible.

But before making videos, I need to tell you some concepts so you don’t get lost in the way.

Video concepts: how images can work in a video

It’s not really hard to integrates images in a video. And there’s a reason: videos are based on a series of images. Let me explain.

A video (even a YouTube video) is a suite of still images that changes quickly. In cinema and movie theaters, between each image there’s a black picture because the mechanism has to switch frame and was too slow. But it’s not noticeable by human eye because the mechanism is fast enough and because of an optical illusion.

But computers don’t have this problem. LCD screens just keep displaying the last image. Anyway, you can in fact extract a independent image from every image of a video. When an image comes from a video, it’s called a frame. That’s exactly what you see when you pause a video – and when you do so faces generally doesn’t look good!

Generally, videos from United States a contains 30 frames per second – realize a bit. It’s 1,800 frames per minute, 54,000 frames per half hour of video, or 108,000 frames per hour. That’s a lot and that’s how you wonder sometimes how a single image can weight 1 MiB but one minute of 1080p video can weight only 15 MiB.

The number of pictures per second is called the frame rate. At 30 frames per second, you change image every 33 milliseconds. So concretely, if you wanted to do one minute of video based solely on your images, you would need to have 1,800 JPG or PNG files per minute.

That’s useful if you want to do advanced video editing without using video tools: you just have to build images for each frame with your effects and then you can bundle it in a video. But sometimes you want a still image to last because, well, you want a still image in video.

Okay, now, time to install ffmpeg.

Install ffmpeg on Linux

Depending of your distribution, installing ffmpeg can be easy or a little tricky. It’s a free software with source code publicly available, but as it can decode or encode patented formats like MP4, some distributions excludes it from their repositories. For example, in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora, you need RPMFusion because of patents. Moreover, all Debian versions and Ubuntu before 16.04 is distributing a false version of ffmpeg based on a illegitimate fork.

But before hurrying in installing it, maybe the right version already installed? Let’s test:

If after the copyright you do see “the FFmpeg developers”, you have the original version of FFMpeg, you need to do nothing. However, if you see:

Then it means you’re using a fork of ffmpeg called Libav. Debian and older versions of Ubuntu silently substitute FFMpeg with Libav. If it tells you it’s deprecated, please ignore it, that’s misleading. If you have the fork installed it’s time to remove your version of false ffmpeg and then follow the guide below to install the right version. Probably like this:

So now you may haven’t it installed yet or you have the wrong version, time to install it!

In Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS, go to https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration and enable free RPMFusion repository on your computer. Then, if you’re in Fedora, do:

And for CentOS & Red Hat Enterprise Linux, do:

That’s all for Fedora and Red Hat based systems, it’s installed.

In all versions of Debian (and all derivatives) and Ubuntu before 16.04, you need to get FFMpeg static build from the official website. Go to https://ffmpeg.org/download.html#build-linux and below “Linux Static Builds”, click on “32-bit and 64-bit for kernel 2.6.32 and above”. Then, below “release: X.X.X”,  download the appropriate archive, extract it and you can launch the executables located in extracted folder via CLI.

For the ones using Ubuntu 16.04 and above, it’s easier, just do:

Phew! Finally we should be good to go! Before going on, test a last time with:

ffmpeg version X.XXXXXXXX Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers

Create videos from many images

So, for our first example, we’ll create a video from Images where each image represents a frame that will be displayed for 33 milliseconds. Let me show you first the command.

** MP4 and H.264 are patented codecs, please check if you have the right to encode with it. **

OK so how that works? For this command to work, you need to have many frames where each frame is a file like Penguins – 00043.png. This command will then combine all frames in order at a rate of 30 FPS. So, Penguins – 00043.png comes before Penguins – 00044.png in the video and ffmpeg will respect that. So if you have 120 frames, your video will have a 4 seconds duration.

There’s few requirements about format, width and height for frames to work. If you don’t follow these rules, ffmpeg may ignore some images or cancel  video creation process. So:

• All frames in a same video must share:
  • Width & height
  • Color depth
• Frames should be in a standard video size such as:
  • 640 ✕ 360 (360p)
  • 853 ✕ 480 (480p)
  • 1280 ✕ 720 (720p)
  • 1920 ✕ 1080 (1080p)
  • 4096 ✕ 2306 (4K)
• Prefer frames in PNG rather than JPG
• Avoid transparency or alpha in PNG format

The command will then take some time to convert the video, optimize its performance and make you a MP4 file named Penguins.mp4.

Now, you may want to have, well, a still image remaining for more than 33 milliseconds. In this case, your video is more a slideshow and it’s not the same affair. To do so, you may first give a slower framerate for the input and then tell ffmpeg to duplicate frames in output. No, YouTube and Vimeo won’t really appreciate a 0.5 FPS video even if you change your image every 2 seconds.

Let’s rather do that:

There we go! ffmpeg will make each of your images appear for 5 seconds but in a 30 FPS video. Don’t worry about the duplicate frames warning: it’s what you want.

Conclusion

Now, you’re – the new Spielberg – able to create your own videos. You can do a simple slideshow or prepare a video frame by frame using an image editor such as GIMP, but you can also benefit from the large set of effects and codecs you can find in ffmpeg.

Take the time to experiment by yourself – you’re an artist, after all – and create a video that will do millions of views in YouTube! ]]> https://linuxhint.com/avidemux-video-editor-for-linux/ Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:47:05 +0000 https://linuxhint-com.zk153f8d-liquidwebsites.com/?p=19347

Avidemux is a basic and easy-to-use video editor software available for Linux. Avidemux is used for trimming, cutting, and filtering video clips. In Linux, there is no video editing software that comes with the operating system by default, such as Video Editor for Windows or iMovie for Mac Operating System. However, Linux does have some third-party video editing programs available, including Avidemux. This article shows you how to install Avidemux in Ubuntu using each of the following methods:

• Install Avidemux Using the Terminal
• Install Avidemux Using the AppImage

So, let us begin with the installation.

Install Avidemux Using the Terminal

You can simply install Avidemux through the terminal by first adding the unofficial PPA repository to the system’s sources list. To do so, issue the following command:

You will be asked for permission to add the unofficial PPA repository. Press Enter to continue.

The PPA should now be added successfully. Next, update and upgrade the system’s package repository.

You are now ready to install Avidemux, along with the other required tools.

You will be asked for permission to continue and take the extra space needed on the disk. Press Y to continue.

Once Avidemux has been installed successfully, search for the term ‘avidemux’ in the Application menu.

Click the Avidemux application to run it.

Here, you can see the sleek and elegant look of the Avidemux Video editor.

Install Avidemux Using the App Image

To run Avidemux from the app image, first, download the App image from the fosshub website by visiting the following link (Download the latest release of Avidemux here).

Next, download the Avidemux Universal AppImage by clicking the Avidemux Universal AppImage – Linux 64-bits button and then clicking the Save File button.

Once the download has finished, change the mod of the Appimage file and make it executable by right-clicking the Avidemux AppImage file and clicking the Properties option.

Next, navigate to the Permissions tab and click the checkbox shown in the picture below.

After making the AppImage file executable, close the Properties box, and double-click on the Avidemux AppImage file.

The Avidemux Video Editor will now open and should be ready to use.

Conclusion

This article covered two different methods to install and run the Avidemux Video Editor in Linux. Thank you so much for reading!

LiVES Features

• LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application
• It let’s you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates
• It’s a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ’s and video editors
• Mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, as well as bring them together using the multitrack timeline
• You can also even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away
• LiVES is frame and sample accurate, and it can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server
• It supports all of the latest free standards

LiVES 2.8.7 Changelog

• Remove glad.h dependence on khr
• Prompt for clip name when rendering to new clip
• Fix autolives toy
• Increase default frame size to 1024×768 for new installs
• Allow override of frame size when encoding to ffmpeg / h264 format
• Fix breakage in the threaded progress window
• Updated Ukrainian translation (Yuri)

How to install LiVES 2.8.7 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/lives

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install lives lives-plugins

How to uninstall LiVES from Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove lives lives-plugins

VidCutter Key Features

• It’s a cross-platform editor based on Qt5 app for simple quick and easy, video cutting, video trimming/splitting and merging/joining edits
• It uses FFmpeg as the backend to support quick video trimming, splitting, merging and joining
• Supports most of the common video formats such as: AVI, MP4, MPEG 1/2, WMV, MP3, MOV, 3GP, FLV etc
• It comes with a stylishly hand edited Qt5 UI
• A FFmpeg static binary is preinstalled for both Windows and macOS releases

For non-windows, use your o/s package manager if on Linux and homebrew for Mac OS X to manage FFmpeg. It is most likely already installed on your Linux or macOS machine.

Vidcutter 3.5.0 Changelog

• redesigned timeline as well as slider with timecode labels at fixed intervals as per regular video editors
• thumbnail previews on timeline; the entire timeline background is overlayed with thumbnail previews which looks good + helps you target where you want to mark a start/stop point. thumbnil generation is threaded so will not slow the app down or hinder your use of it. thumbnails will regenerate on app resize
• the thumbnail previews as well as on screen display toggle buttons added to far left of main toolbar; what they do is self-explanatory
• slider movement/sync with mpv backend improved; should be less jumpy on problematic videos with bad indexes
• configurable seeking time lengths; this is for the up+down and shift up+down keys which were set to 2 secs and 5 secs forwards and backwards. you can now set the number of secs as preferred via new spinboxes added to the settings menu labelled Seek #1 and Seek #2
• additional on screen display text added to various functions
• fixed bug when clearing clip index and you could not continue navigating video requiring you to reload
• continue button added to the job completion dialog and set as the default button selection
• libmpv bindings library updated with the latest changed from upstream; should not be noticeable to users albeit improved playback or slider position sync
• VidCutter project files (.vcp) can now be preloaded like regular videos either by passing file path on command line or when dragging and dropping project onto a VidCutter application/shortcut icon

How to install VidCutter 3.5.0 on Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ozmartian/apps

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vidcutter

Note: If VidCutter throws error while trying to load a video file, then run the following command to install the dependency

sudo apt install qml-module-qtmultimedia

How to uninstall Vidcutter from Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove vidcutter

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ozmartian/apps

Install Vidcutter on ArchLinux

sudo yaourt vidcutter

Handbrake Key Features

• You can choose a profile that is optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions
• Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection
• Can use handbrake cli convert mkv to mp4
• Even more features
  • Title / chapter and range selection
  • Batch Scan and Queueing of encodes
  • Chapter Markers
  • Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
  • Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
  • Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
  • Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Denoise, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
  • Live Static and Video Preview

Handbrake 1.0.7 Changelog

All platforms/ Video

• Fixed decoding of raw video in Matroska/MKV
• Improved handling of very small amounts of sync jitter (~1 tick)
• Fixed time stamp handling for containerless raw video
• Fixed x265 2-pass encoding where video frame rate is altered by filters
• Improved handling of AVI files with broken indices
• Fixed memory leaks in OpenCL

Audio

• Further refined fix for Libav crash encoding AAC at very high bitrates

Subtitles

• Removed fontconfig dependency on Mac and Windows; libass now uses CoreText/DirectWrite
• Improved subtitle font selection when burning in SRT/SSA subtitles

Command line interface

• Fixed preset subtitle burn defaults override

Build system

• Updated MinGW-w64 build script for improved compatibility with hardened GCC

Linux

• Fixed video preset control not updating
• Fixed application of SRT subtitles offset
• Updated translations: af, cs, ja_JP, ru, sk, sv
• Fixed audio passthru masks not updating until preset save

Windows

• Fixed When Done option not updating/resetting correctly

How to Install HandBrake 1.0.7 on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04

--------- Remove Previous Installation ---------
sudo apt remove handbrake && sudo apt autoremove

--------- Add the Repository, Update and Install ---------
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli handbrake-gtk

How to uninstall HandBrake from Ubuntu

sudo apt remove handbrake && sudo apt autoremove

Launch Handbrake via Unity Dash

It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Key Features

• It’s capable of non-linear video editing, as well as applying visual effects (called “Filters”) to video, and transcoding video into various formats
• It can also insert audio streams into a video file known as multiplexing or “muxing” or extract audio streams from video files an action known as “demuxing”
• It’s available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license
• It has built-in subtitle processing, both for optical character recognition of DVD subtitles as well as for rendering hard subtitles
• Supports various subtitle formats, including MicroDVD (.SUB), SubStation Alpha (.SSA), Advanced SubStation Alpha (.ASS) as well as SubRip (.SRT)
• It can also be run from the command line.

Avidemux 2.6.19 Changelog

• Filter
  • All filters with preview have better navigation dialogs
  • Delogo filter UI redone
  • Fixed changeFps/resampleFps seeking
• TS/Demux : HEVC support improved
• Flv/Demux : Support large files
• Audio : Allow EAC3 as external audio track
• UI
  • General usability cleanup
  • Allow using the last read folder as default save folder
  • 2 pass encoding dialog cleanup
  • Dynamically enable/disable menu
  • Customizable keyboard shortcut
  • Allow reverting page up/down
• Codec : Better support for 10bits
• i18n : Russian as well as Greek translation updated
• i18n : General cleanup
• See changelog for full list

How to install Avidemux 2.6.19 Video Editor on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04

—– Getdeb Installation —–

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc)-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt update && sudo apt install avidemux2.6-qt

—– PPA Installation —–

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/avidemux+unofficial
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install avidemux2.6-qt

How to remove Avidemux Final Video Editor from Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get remove avidemux2.6-qt

LosslessCut is a multi-platform software that is used to trim and cut audio and video files without loss. This program is a fast video and audio cutting software yet is also a very powerful extracting software. LosslessCut remains popular by maintaining the best quality. The reason behind its quick performance without loss of quality is that LosslessCut does not use any decoding and re-encoding. For all the grunt work, LosslessCut uses FFmpeg.

Install LosslessCut in Ubuntu 20.04

There are two methods for installing LosslessCut in Ubuntu 20.04:

• Install LoslessCut via the Snap Store
• Install LoslessCut via the AppImage

We will begin the installation of LosslessCut using the Snap method.

Method 1: Install LosslessCut via the Snap Store

The LosslessCut application is available at the Snap store and can easily be installed in Ubuntu because Snap handles all the dependent packages needed for applications. To install LosslessCut using the Snap method, first, update the system’s APT cache repository by issuing the following command:

To install snapd, enter the command given below:

If you already have Snap installed on your system, then you do not need to reinstall it. Instead, skip the step above and install LosslessCut directly using the command given below:

Once LosslessCut has been installed, it is now ready to use. Simply search for the LosslessCut application in the Applications menu and run the app by clicking on it.

Method 2: Install LosslessCut via the AppImage

An AppImage is also available for LosslessCut in Ubuntu 20.04. To install LosslessCut using this quicker method, simply download the AppImage. Once the AppImage has been downloaded, start using the application by double-clicking on the AppImage file. An AppImage of an application is just a portable version of that application.

To download the AppImage of the latest version of LosslessCut, visit the release page of LosslessCut provided below:

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases

Here, you can find the AppImage file. Download the AppImage file by clicking on it.

Once LosslessCut has been downloaded, navigate to the Downloads directory or wherever the AppImage file was downloaded.

Right-click on the file and select Properties.

In the pop-up box, switch to the Permissions tab.

Tick the checkbox shown in the picture below.

Now, the AppImage file of LosslessCut is executable. You just need to perform the steps provided above to make the AppImage an executable file.

Now, close the pop-up box and double-click the AppImage file of LosslessCut.

The LosslessCut application should now be running successfully and ready to use.

Conclusion

LosslessCut is a great application for cutting videos losslessly. It is very easy to install LosslessCut in Ubuntu 20.04 using the Snap store or by downloading the AppImage file. Both methods were explained in an easy, step-by-step procedure in this article.

This package comes with two applications

• MP4Joiner: A free application that allows join multiple MP4 files into one without reencoding and without quality loss.
• MP4Splitter: A free application that allows split a MP4 file in multiple files without reencoding and without quality loss

Both mentioned tools are free, open source and they run on the following Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Key Info

• Please note that both MP4Joiner and MP4Splitter which are both built inside “MP4Tools” are clean hence does not contain any 3rd party software bundles.
• Something else to keep in mind is that both applications “MP4Joiner” and “MP4Splitter” can run without the need of re-encoding and no loss in the final outputted video quality. However, you can re-encode both video and audio if teh need arises using MP4Joiner by going to “Options” and enable them.

MP4Tools Changelogs

• added option to save log file
• MP4Joiner: added CRF and Preset options
• updated ffmpeg to version 3.1.1
• MP4Joiner: added options to force re-encoding
• added French translation (thanks to Cocoa Pod)

Download MP4Tools

 Windows binary: MP4Tools-3.4-win32.exe
Mac OS X binary: MP4Tools-3.4-MacOSX.dmg (OS X ≥ 10.10)
Source Code: MP4Tools-3.4.tar.bz2

Installation

To get started with the installation of Clipgrab.

Download the Clipgrab AppImage file

First, visit the official website of Clipgrab by visiting the link https://clipgrab.org/ and click on the “Free Download” button.

It will navigate you to the Downloads page.

If you want to support ClipGrab, then click on the Donate & Download button. Otherwise, ClipGrab is free software, so you can click on the Free Download button as well. After clicking on the “Free Download” button, a prompt will appear to confirm the downloading of the ClipGrab AppImage file. Click on the “save file” button.

The downloading of AppImage should start.

Wait for the Downloading of ClipGrab AppImage to complete.

Once the Downloading is complete.

Open up the directory in which you have downloaded the AppImage file.

Or in the terminal,

Make the Clipgrap AppImage file executable

To run the AppImage, We need to make this file executable.

We can make this file executable, either by changing the mod of the file in the terminal by running the “chmod” command.

You can verify that either the AppImage has become executable or not by running the “ls -la” command.

Or you can make the AppImage file executable by going into the properties of the file by right-clicking on it and selecting the properties option from the options list.

Click on the properties, now click on the Permissions tab and tick the “Allow executing file as program” checkbox.

After making the AppImage file executable,

Run the Clipgrab AppImage file by double-clicking on it.

A prompt will appear to download the youtube-dl.

Click the “Continue” button in the bottom right corner of the dialog box, and it starts downloading the youtube-dl.

After downloading the youtube-dl, ClipGrap will show an error of “ffmpeg could not found”.

It is perfectly fine to use ClipGrab without having ffmpeg installed. The only issue that you may face without ffmpeg is that you can not download 1080p videos from YouTube. But if you want to enable 1080p download support and install ffmpeg as well,

Install ffmpeg to enable 1080p download

To install ffmpeg, first close the ClipGrab if it is open. After closing the ClipGrab, you can install the ffmpeg by simply running the following command.

Press ‘y’ to continue.

Once the installation of ffmpeg is completed, ClipGrab is ready to support the downloading of 1080p videos.

Run the ClipGrab again, and it is perfectly ready to use.

Using ClipGrab

Now, you can either search for a video in the search tab.

Or you can directly paste the link of any youtube video in the Downloads tab.

Once you added the video and selected the format and quality according to your desire. Hit on the “Grab this Clip!” button, and the downloading would start.

You can adjust some general settings of ClipGrab as well from the Settings tab.

So, this how simply you can download, install, and use ClipGrab on your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system.

Conclusion

ClipGrab is a free software used to grab or download videos from some of the most famous video platforms like Youtube and Vimeo. This article explains the installation and use of Clipgrab in easy to understand and step by step process with graphical representation.

Frogr 1.2 changelog:

• You can now upload pictures and videos to flickr, specifying details such as title, description, tags, visibility, content type, safety level. Furthermore, you can decide whether it will “show up on global search results”.
• In addition, you can now upload pictures and videos from remote machines, through different protocols (SMB, SSH, FTP…).
• Allow specifying sets and group pools for the elements to be added to after the upload process.
• The command line interface and integration as MIME type handler for pictures also improved.
• Import tags from picture’s metainformation (if present) when loading.
• Now also you can load/save the work session from/to ‘project’ files.
• Support for handling multiple Flickr accounts now finally possible.
• Allow setting specific licenses and geolocation information for pictures right from the desktop also now possible.
• Furthermore, support for specifying HTTP proxies manually now possible.
• Integrated with GNOME Shell and the Mac OS X desktops.
• Allow to create sets right from the app, opposite to just adding elements to already existing ones.
• Translated to many languages

How to Install the latest Frogr 1.2 on Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04

--------- Add the Repository ---------
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mariospr/frogr

--------- Update Repository ---------
sudo apt-get update

--------- Install Package ---------
sudo apt-get install frogr

This is how to remove the application from Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get remove frogr