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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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looks like capcut
"Unlock pro for $40/month"
Is there any good video editor for phones?
Bunny is good for basic edits.
Node Video or Kinemaster???? but kinemaster has that watermark.
Capcut i guess?
What software is this?
Looks like Inshot. Annoyingly its actually alright cracked.
Why use that obvious scam trap ?
Use open source software where you have an editor that is free as in freedom AND free as in beer
Like Davinci? Wonderful piece of software without a doubt but OMG is it hard to pickup for someone that doesnβt want to become full time video editorβ¦
I use shortcut, can do a lot of cool things and it's not overwhelmingly difficult. A few simple guides and you're up and running.
That's only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it
With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.
From the standpoint who doesn't do much coding it's probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can't use one of your favourite programs anymore.
This stuff drives me crazy. I'm not an artisty type, but sometimes I wanna enhance a photo, enlarge something, remove a background, on layer images, so I search up "free online whatever tool," go through the upload and whatever, and then all of a sudden it's all "nah, I changed my mind. the thing I told you I did I'm gonna have to charge you for or make you sign up for an account or whatever."
If I wanted to go through all that, I'd already have a dang tool installed! Thankfully after enough of these roadblocks, I've got a pretty good arsenal of free utilities, though nothing to help you out here. It looks like some other comments do though!
Needed a PDF editor on my phone once. Was a fn nightmare to find one.
PDF is copyrighted by Adobe (or something similar).
That is why all the PDF editors are paid for, since they need to pay a license to Adobe in order to be allowed to edit PDFs.
Isnt it owned by ISO Nowadays but they charge for the standard (correct me if am wrong)
Google links need upvote/downvote buttons!
I think that βfreeβ anything is the new β¬0.99
Shotcut
Yep, was gonna say this, at least if you're on linux.
A bit of a confusing UI, but it doesn't seem to be as resource intensive as other editors with similar feature sets.
(Though I do have very little experience with video editors/editing in general... shotcut 'clicked' for me after a few hours of just brute force fucking about with no manual or anything)
Runs just fine on windows. A little slower than on Linux but it works.
Davinci Resolve homie
Correction: Freemium
Nothing gets me to uninstall faster.
What about a forced registration screen on a 100% offline app? (Example: duet screen)
DELETE
"This app needs access to your
- contacts
- location
- phone call history
- notifications
- your waist size
- sleeping habits
- your firstborn
- your significant other
- camera
- microphone "
Don't forget your address, kidneys, and mother's maiden name.
Blender non-linear editor
Came here for the blender mention. I don't edit video often, but blender is fine for basic work! (and maybe more but I'm not a good enough editor to know)
Blender can do very advanced editing and even motion graphics, but the learning curve is steeeeep.
βUnlock 3 undoβs for only 9,99 (savings: 19,99!)β
kdenlive
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is the precise opposite experience of this meme! It is awesome.
I had to suggest something to people seeing this meme and not knowing where to turn. Otherwise, they may try using Shotcut.
Yeah I already tried shotcut and it was usable but not great, it has trouble with audio preview. Swapped to kdenlive and no issues
Well then here is a handy link right to kdenlive's website to make it as easy as possible for people to check out!
I'm voting for kdenlive. And krita for image creation, I use both (although my wife uses the tiktok editor whatever it's called on her phone and her videos are great, so there's that..)
*capcut it's called capcut apparently the free version is pretty good although I dunno if it works on desktop
Not sure why everyone keeps on using Capcut on Android other than to stay under Bytedance's ecosystem. In my experience InShot works much better and is much friendlier. For better results it's worthwhile to just wait and use decent desktop software though. Smartphone apps should be a last resort.
This looks like a phone app though?
It's Linux software, idk if there's some phone thing by the same name, but I've used it a little. It's pretty good.
Yes Iβm aware. I prefer OpenShot myself. But at first glance it doesnβt look like OP is on a desktop.
Every time I've tried to use OpenShot it's crashed 75 times before I even load all my footage in.
ah my mistake, thought you had looked up Kdenlive and mistook it for a phone app
they were saying the photo in the post looks like a phone app
From which version onward?