Comment by nickjj

Thanks for the suggestion and reminder! I remember trying Shotcut many years ago and it was worse (IMO) than Kdenline at the time.

The good news is I gave it a quick spin just now and it has come a -really- long ways since then. Within 10 minutes I had an ok workflow for doing cuts / ripple deletes. You can add text with individually colored words and styles, add a background shape behind the text and also add effects like drop shadows, glows and other things. All done graphically in the video preview.

It's no where near as intuitive as Camtasia but I think it's very usable and over time I'm sure I'll get used to its features.

I just hope it's stable, I'll edit a couple of videos and see how it goes.