If you have a budget, then go for it. Buy a Blackmagic Design Speed Editor ($435), a graphics card ($199), and DaVinci Resolve Studio ($325). Editing videos should be fun.

But if you do not have a budget, one of the open source video editors like Kdenlive, Shotcut, or Flowblade is more than capable of editing your videos.

MTS files are a common container format for high-definition video, often used by HD camcorders, and can be played with various media players like VLC, or converted to other formats like MP4 using Handbrake or FFmpeg. Video editors like Kdenlive, Flowblade and Shortcut also support editing MTS files.

Flowblade 2.20 was recently released. Cutting video clips in this powerful video editor is very easy to achieve with just two steps.

1. Position the playhead in the timeline where you want to "cut" your video. Remember that the cut is always made before the currently displayed frame on all active tracks.

2. Either press the "Cut" button or press "X" on the keyboard.

https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/

Flowblade, a lightweight and powerful video editor for Linux release version 2.20 on March 25, 2025.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.jliljebl.Flowblade

On the same day, MPV, a lightweight video player for Linux releases version 0.40.0.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.mpv.Mpv

Flowblade offers a dedicated Batch Render Queue application. Batch Render Queue is a separate application to Flowblade and runs on a different process, so it is possible to close Flowblade without affecting ongoing renders.

https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/webhelp/rendering.html

FLOWBLADE 2.20 was released. Learn the keyboard shortcuts of this powerful video editor and start editing videos like a pro.

https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/webhelp/kbshortcuts.html

FLOWBLADE Generators are Media Items that render into animated media clips when placed on timeline.

Currently there are three different types of Generators.

1. Backgrounds Generators are animated backgrounds.
2. Texts Generators are animated texts.
3. Cover Transitions Generators are incoming shapes that cover the frame fully and then disappear creating a transition.

Flowblade Generators are implemented as Python scripts using Fluxity API.

FLOWBLADE 2.20 released. Some of the new features include:

1. Rendered Stabilized Media Item creation is now possible.
2. Duplicate Sequence feature allows creating copies of Sequences.
3. Generator Templates feature makes possible to create Generators with user set properties to avoid having to set properties multiple times when creating Generators.

FLOWBLADE 2.20 released. This powerful video editor now uses SDL2 video playback for Flatpak on all systems with MLT 7.30 or higher. But video playback for native Wayland without XWayland or for GTK4 does not currently seem possible with SDL.

Motion tracking is a technique used to record and analyze the movement of an object or element in a video clip, then apply that movement data to another object or effect, like a particle emitter, filter, or text.

Kdenlive
https://docs.kdenlive.org/en/effects_and_filters/video_effects/alpha_mask_keying/motion_tracker.html

Flowblade
https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/webhelp/advanced.html#6._Motion_Tracking

Blender
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/movie_clip/tracking/index.html

Natron
https://natron.readthedocs.io/en/rb-2.5/guide/compositing-tracking.html

How to make income online with 2D/3D animations.

Step 1. Ask #Huggingchat to generate your script
Step 2. Make a storyboard in #krita
Step 3. Edit your assests in #Krita #GIMP #ImageMagick
Step 4. Create your animation in #blender #OpenSCAD #freecad #Friction #synfig #pencil2d #Glaxnimate #FFmpeg
Step 5. Put it all together in #kdenlive #shotcut #flowblade #natron
Step 6. Upload your video to #odysee
Step 7. Promote your content on #mastodon #peertube #pixelfed #xmpp #matrix #irc

@OtterSide I was thinking about Flowblade when I wrote my post. Flowblade is the most gorgeous video editor on Linux.