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How To Install Flowblade Video Editor On Ubuntu 16.04 System

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Flowblade 1.8 released. How to install Flowblade video editor on Ubuntu 16.04 System. Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux Ubuntu Systems released under GPL 3 license. Flowblade provides powerful tools to mix and filter video and audio.

Flowblade supports most common video and audio formats and other editable media formats such as JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF graphics file types, SVG vector graphics and numbered frame sequences.

Flowblade 1.8

Flowblade 1.8 is the twelth release of Flowblade.

Flowblade Main Features

  • Keybord trimming with arrow keys – Trim positions can now be moved using arrow keys and trim edit confirmed with pressing Enter key. This is often more convenient and previse then always working with a mouse
  • Clip Snapping – Clips and compositors will now snap to clip ends on adjacent tracks when clips or compositors are moved or their ends dragged.
  • Clips display media thumbnails – This helps differentiating clips from each other on timeline.
  • EDL export – is now available. Thanks to Github user tin2tin for extensive testing on software not available on my system. Unfortunately it became clear that Blender EDL import is buggy.

G’MIC Film Emulation Filters

  • G’MIC Effects tool got an important capability update with the addition of film emulation filters.
  • G’MIC Film Emulation Filters change the tones and gamma of the image to resemble different film stocks.

Bugfixes and enhancements

  • “Change Project” functionality fixed, and works much better now
  • If first loaded media does not match current project profile, user is informed and given option to switch to matching profile.
  • Fix assoc file launch from e.g. Nautilus
  • Improve missing rendered transition media overlap info
  • Compositors can now move by dragging from middle too, not just edges
  • Do gi.require() for Gtk and PangoCairo to silence warnings and specify Gtk+ 3
  • Make MLT version detection work for two digit version number parts
  • Fix adding media while in proxy mode
  • Check and give info on IO errors when saving in main app and relinker
  • Add keyboard shorcut ‘R’ for resyncing selected clip or compositor
  • Display image sizes for graphics files in info dialogs
  • Make CTRL + Mouse toggle media items selection state, not just add to selection
  • Make KeyFrameEditor prev button update keuframes info
  • Fix updating non-existing clip in effects editor after delete
  • Make Compositor GUI edit update keyframe count display
  • Add user selectable scope overlay opacity
  • Add timeline start indicator triangles
  • Remove non-existing files from recents list
  • Fix launching uninited renders
  • Fix too long filename layout bug in filter editor
  • Fix unicode project name bug
  • Display warning icons for non-profile-matching video media
  • Reset titler for new project

Install Flowblade 1.8 on Ubuntu

Run the following commands in Terminal to install Flowblade 1.8 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/onrdoivia6t0rjd/flowblade-1.8.0-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i ./flowblade-1.8.0-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

The above command “sudo apt-get install -f” will force install all dependencies. Also please note that running a KDEnlive PPA on Ubuntu may cause an uncompatible MLT to be installed and prevent Flowblade from running.

Once installed, open the Flowblade video editor from Ubuntu Dash.

Ubuntu users can also download and install .deb file for Flowblade 1.8 from here.