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Filmora on Linux

Hi everyone, I'm going to use Debian with lxde on my machine and I'll need to use Filmora for video editing. Has anyone already tried it? Any problem during installation/use? Any help is appreciated

Thanks to all!

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  • Windows apps (particularly ones that require that kind of acceleration) are unlikely to work with Wine. And if they do, either they'll be crashy, or they can break at any consequent Wine update. Forget Windows apps. Windows games that are invoking only fullscreen 3D are much more likely to work on Linux because the part that gets re-interpreted is simpler. But apps, that use obscure optimization Windows APIs are a pain to get good support of.

    So, I suggest you install kdenlive or Shotcut to do video editing. Even Davinci resolve is a hit or miss on Linux and it doesn't support AAC at all. So get it done with the two OSS apps I suggested instead. In another life I was a music video director for local bands, and so I was doing a lot of color grading, invoking tricks and things that FOSS apps can't do. I switched full time to Linux and FOSS apps, and I just do the basic color grading now. It was sad to see that part of the fun go, but that's what I had to do.

    Additionally Filmora is a primarily Chinese company, probably mining data, so it's best to not use it. Same for CapCut.

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