Blender is best known for being a feature-rich, 3D editing and rendering application and a huge open source success story. What is less known is that Blender does regular video-editing too, and that the tools it provides are first class and corporate grade. For the final part of our trilogy, we tackle the video-editing challenge…
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Can you use Free Software editors for more than applying a pretty effects and adding an Adele song to your video of your holidays in Ibiza? We saw that Kdenlive could, and in this tutorial you’ll see that Natron is even better at creating complex. professional-looking shots.
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How easy is it to edit video on a GNU/Linux system using free software? Can the likes of Kdenlive, or more specialised tools like Blender and Natron, win users over from Premier, Movie Maker, or Sony Vegas? I tried to carry out what at first glance seemed a simple video editing task using three Open…
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Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS for short, is a pretty amazing project. Used extensively within the Gaming/Youtubing/Twitching community, OBS allows you to set up a virtual TV studio, combine a variety of video, audio and image sources into one or several “scenes”, and save them or stream them to the Internet.
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Styles bring consistency to a layout. They help the person doing layout to maintain the look you want for your publication, avoid errors, and save a ridiculous amount of time.
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Scribus is the free software community’s answer to Indesign, Adobe’s program for layout. Along with the likes of Inkscape, GIMP/Krita, Synfig and Blender 3D, it is part of a veritable open source Creative Suite.
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Not too long ago, free fonts were either low-quality or utilitarian, designed to substitute for common proprietary fonts like Times Roman or Helvetica. Today, however, a small but growing number of free-licensed fonts can match the best proprietary fonts.
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Having Linux’s hardware detection software configure your network devices, including your WiFi, is the usual thing. But you may come across a botched configuration from time to time. When that happens, you need to be ready.
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Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot, more often than not, even while you install. However, you may find yourself on the wrong end of a configuration gone awry and be forced to set up networking on your computer by hand.
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Most Linux distros today will automatically configure your network as soon as you boot. Indeed, most will set up networking for you as you install. However, there is a (very small) chance something conks out and you end up having to do things by hand, or you may need some sort of special configuration.
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In most of the world, the standard paper size for printing is A4. However, in North America, the standard size is Letter. These contrary standards mean that paper trays on printers and copiers need to be adjustable — and, even worse, that anything printed internationally usually has to be printed in two versions.
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Most graphics editors have a stamp or clone feature that allow you to repeat the same pattern with a click of the mouse. Krita is no exception. However, as often happens, Krita has a logic of its own, and in this case the feature is hidden among the characteristics of brushes.
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