Flowblade Movie Editor is a multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux.With Flowblade Movie Editor you can compose movies from video clips, audio clips and graphics files. Clips can be cut at the desired frames, filters can be added to clips, and you can create multilayer composite images using compositor objects.
In Flowblade clips are usually automatically placed tightly after the previous clip — or between two existing clips — when they are inserted on the timeline. Edits are fine tuned by trimming in and out points of clips, or by cutting and deleting parts of clips.

Flowblade Features

Editing:

3 move tools
3 trim tools
4 methods to insert / overwrite / append clips on the timeline
Drag’n’Drop clips on the timeline
Clip and compositor parenting with other clips
Max. 9 combined video and audio tracks available

Image compositing:

6 compositors. Mix, zoom, move and rotate source video with keyframed animation tools
19 blends. Stardand image blend modes like Add, Hardlight and Overlay are available
40+ pattern wipes.

Image and audio filtering:

50+ image filters: color correction, image effects, distorts, alpha manipulation, blur, edge detection, motion effects, freeze frame, etc.
30+ audio filters: keyframed volume mixing, echo, reverb, distort, etc.

Supported editable media types:

Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs
JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF graphics file types
SVG vector graphics
Numbered frame sequences

Output encoding:

Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs
User can define rendering by setting FFMpeg args individually

Installing Flowblade

Installing using .deb package

Step 1. Download and install .deb

First download .deb file for Flowblade 1.8 from here.

Double click on .deb file to install it.

On some systems double clicking may not work (on Ubuntu it has sometimes istalled old version from repository), and you need to install .deb file using terminal:

• Open terminal in the directory you saved the downloaded .deb file. Give command:

sudo dpkg -i ./flowblade-1.8.0-1_all.deb

Step 2. Give some additional commands on terminal

You may need to give some additional commands on terminal:

• Force install all dependencies with command:

    sudo apt-get install -f

Release has been install tested on: Ubuntu 16.04. Linux Mint 18 and Debian 8. It should work on all recent Debian based distributions.

NOTE: Running a KDEnlive PPA on Ubuntu may cause an uncompatible MLT to be installed and prevent Flowblade from running, more here.

Please note these issues with Dropbox download:

• The download button may appear grayed out and you have to press it twice.
• A window may appear that asks you to create an account, but you can close it and press Download button again.
• The .deb file is in a Dropbox Public folder and may go over download limit, please contact Project Owner if this happens.

Installing from your OS repository

The easiest way to install Flowblade is using the version in your OS repository. The downside is that the version available may not be the current latest release. Contact your OS to get latest Flowblade included in repositories if not already available.

Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint

sudo apt-get install flowblade

Archlinux

Latest release. Visit the AUR page or use terminal command:

yaourt -S flowblade

Git version. Visit the AUR page or use terminal command:

yaourt -S flowblade-git

Installing Using Source Code Archive

Flowblade is currently a 100% script application, and all the dependencies should be available in popular distributions, so in most cases it should be possible to install and run Flowblade without compiling anything.

First download 1.8 tar.gz source archive file from here.

• Extract archive into a folder of your choosing
• Install dependencies. See Dependencies doc for more information.
• If you have Flowblade installed in your system, you probably have the dependencies installed, unless some new ones have been added.
• Launch by running script …/flowblade-1.8.0/flowblade that was created in the folder where archive was unpacked.
• Note that if you have Flowblade installed yu will need use full path to repository version or navigate to the folder containing launch script and use command “./flowblade” to launch repository version instead of installed version.

Please note these issues with Dropbox download:

• The download button may appear grayed out and you have to press it twice.
• A window may appear that asks you to create an account, but you can close it and press Download button again..
• The .deb file is in a Dropbox Public folder and may go over download limit, please contact Project Owner if this happens.

Installing Using Development Repository Version

Flowblade is currently a 100% script application, and all the dependencies should be available in popular distributions, so in most cases it should be possible to install and run Flowblade without compiling anything.

Developer version may however be unstable or have new dependencies. If you fail to install developer version, please file a bug in Issues -tab.

• Install Git in your system (Ubuntu command):

sudo apt-get install git

• Use Git to download Flowblade into a folder of your choosing by using the git clone command in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade.git

• Install dependencies. See Dependencies doc for more information.
• If you have Flowblade installed in your system, you probably have the dependencies installed, unless some new ones have been added.
• Launch by running script .../flowblade-trunk/flowblade that was created in the folder where clone command was done.
• Note that if you have Flowblade installed you will need use full path to repository version or navigate to the folder containing launch script and use command “./flowblade” to launch repository version instead of installed version

Please note: Using the available setup.py script will NOT result in a successful installation, even if dependencies are installed, and may actually break the .deb install if attempted. It is only there to help .deb packaging.