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Linux video editing in real time with Open Broadcast Studio (Opensource.com)

nye — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:16:21 +0000

>But: so we don't confuse the actual audience who cares about this, let us all call it "switching", not "editing",

Except in most of the English-speaking world where it's called 'mixing' (presumably by direct analogy with audio).

Linux video editing in real time with Open Broadcast Studio (Opensource.com)

Baylink — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:56:25 +0000

But: so we don't confuse the actual audience who cares about this, let us all call it "switching", not "editing", even if the people who make it get it wrong?

There is an objective "right" term for this after 70 years of live TV, and "editing" is not that term.

Linux video editing in real time with Open Broadcast Studio (Opensource.com)

flussence — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 16:52:14 +0000

I've been using this for a few months now and it's pretty nice. The biggest advantage over vanilla command-line ffmpeg, IMHO, is its internal window compositor. FFmpeg's x11grab by comparison is a little on the useless side, limited to old-style X11 rectangle geometry syntax for customization.

Linux video editing in real time with Open Broadcast Studio (Opensource.com)

fratti — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:36:04 +0000

Similar free software, with a less nice interface but remotely controllable, would be Snowmix, by the way. While it has some powerful features, it also has quite a steep learning curve. I hope to spend an afternoon actually looking into it more, since it seems to provide a system more focused towards amateur TV broadcasts.

That being said, I'm very impressed with OBS. I've been using it for a while to stream both to my own server (running nginx-rtmp) and Twitch, and it honestly has been a fairly good experience on the OBS side of things. I imagine though that for more complex streaming setups, some things such as maybe Jack integration or multiple outputs would be useful.