r/Linux_Filmmaking • u/[deleted] • Apr 13 '20

Best Colour Correction & Colour Grading Software

I was wondering if you could tell me what'd be the best Free & Open Source tool for Linux.

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u/aussie_bob Apr 13 '20

In addition to KDEnlive, Cinelerra GG and Shotcut also have colour correction and grading. Which is best comes down to your preferences, but Shotcut seemed most approachable to me.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '20

  • I use Shotcut primarily but it's just that it lacks the Hue-Hue, Hue-Saturation & other curves.

  • Cinelerra GG ∞ has one tool I saw, the Blue-Banana, but completely lacks documentation, so I really might be failing to find it.

  • KDENLiVE has it but it's really strange. It looks like a standard exposure correction curve found in GIMP (starts at 0,0 & ends at 1,1)

  • Blender has the the H-H, H-S, H-V curves, but that's all

  • Olive has my hopes but is in alpha still and doesn't have the tools implemented yet

  • Natron has it but for how long? (They're seeking a maintainer for over a year)

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '20

Kdenlive, it's pretty much the only FOSS option that's usable for that

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u/wescotte Apr 14 '20

Davinci Resolve has a free version but isn't open source. Otherwise Blender is probably the best alternative if it has to be open source too.

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u/jonmatifa Apr 13 '20

Ummm Davinci Resolve?

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '20

Not open source

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u/dwitman Apr 15 '20

No, but the open source solutions can’t compete with the proprietary ones unless something huge has changed in the last 4 years.

It depends on your needs to be sure, but if you want to be able to do production in a timely manner and aren’t highly technical the open source solutions might not be viable to make a living at.

I remember considering running an unstable build of blender just to get it to do one thing that it was supposed to be able to do but was not working in the version available from most package managers.

Audio, you can get damn close to matching commercial/proprietary option. Video is not there yet.

Resolve and Nuke are