Anyone any thoughts?
I’ve just picked up Shotcut.
I found shotcut rather useful but it was a bit buggy when I last used it about 10 years ago! Maybe better now.
I use ffmpeg or blender 
I remember blender being around way, way back but I didn’t ever use it in anger.
Kdenlive is well know and is actively developed.
I’ve never used it and I don’t know how it performs on a Pi.
Needs all the Qt and KDE stuff presumably
I use Shotcut for some stuff on PC occasionally, mostly transcoding files that for some reason aren’t working right with AVIDemux, FFMPEG or Handbrake and aren’t supported by the out of date version of Vegas I got when it was on sale at Humble Bundle for $20 a few years ago. For whatever reason, Shotcut seems like it can open almost anything.
For editing, I’ve found the performance REALLY depends on how your source is encoded. When I was using VSERPi stuff a lot I would source raw footage from archive.org so I was working with a lot of long h.264 and Xvid/DivX files, and (a couple years ago, at least) Shotcut would slow to a crawl with anything longer than 15 minutes or so on the timeline. Like, 10+ seconds between clicking at a location and having the UI respond. With lossless compresion it outperformed Vegas and DaVinci Resolve for me, though, even if the feature set was more limited.
These days I mostly use Reaper for video editing since I’m not doing anything complex and I’ve already got about 10 years of experience with it.
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