Posted: Tue 07 Apr 2020, 13:13
@ MrDuckGuy:-
You'll never see 'frei0r-plugins' listed as a 'missing' dependency at install time, because it's not 'mission-critical'; in other words, it's not needed for Openshot to actually run. Openshot has a small number of video 'effects' built-in, but adding the 'frei0r-plugins' package greatly increases the number you have to use. It's been coded to make use of 'frei0r-plugins' if it's available.....and that's why you get the warning message if it's not installed; it's mainly for information, really.
It's basically a plug-in that's designed to be activated by a 'processor' like ffmpeg or gstreamer, as & when it's called for.
You should find Openshot is fairly simple to work with, and it doesn't take that much getting used to, really. I run most of the others, too; Flowblade; Shotcut; Cinelerra; KDEnlive, etc. They all have varying degrees of difficulty in their learning curves, but Openshot really has been designed to be as easy-to-use as it's possible to make it.
Mike.
You'll never see 'frei0r-plugins' listed as a 'missing' dependency at install time, because it's not 'mission-critical'; in other words, it's not needed for Openshot to actually run. Openshot has a small number of video 'effects' built-in, but adding the 'frei0r-plugins' package greatly increases the number you have to use. It's been coded to make use of 'frei0r-plugins' if it's available.....and that's why you get the warning message if it's not installed; it's mainly for information, really.
It's basically a plug-in that's designed to be activated by a 'processor' like ffmpeg or gstreamer, as & when it's called for.
You should find Openshot is fairly simple to work with, and it doesn't take that much getting used to, really. I run most of the others, too; Flowblade; Shotcut; Cinelerra; KDEnlive, etc. They all have varying degrees of difficulty in their learning curves, but Openshot really has been designed to be as easy-to-use as it's possible to make it.
Mike.