I am working on my own NLE for the Mac

[Andrew - EOSHD]

Sometimes it feels as if Resolve is a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and as for Adobe... less said the better 🙂

What is missing, I feel, is a quick turnaround NLE for the Mac.

My plan is to make a couple of apps:

- A Quick NLE, no fuss, no magnetic timeline BS, just works - 8K,4K, ProRes, HEVC support, GPU accelerated, LUT support and a nice built in colour grading tool

- A LUT Creator, import a RAW DNG Photo or V-LOG Video, and use colour grading tools to get the perfect look, export this as a Realtime LUT for your Lumix S9 or S1R II, and export as a plain old .cube LUT

What features do you think are needed most? Bear in mind we're not throwing the kitchen sink in there like Resolve. My priorities so far are...Apple style UI, quick to use, GPU accelerated, no stuttering, a much more lightweight app than Resolve, Premiere or FCPX which does one thing really well and that's edit really well and without a lot of clutter.

Suggestions welcome.

[TrueIndigo]

Shotcut (a free cross-platform NLE) might give some inspiration -- good clean UI which is intuitive to use if you just keep the dockable panels you really need:

https://shotcut.org/

 

[Andrew - EOSHD]

It tries to do too much, and dates originally to 2004.

A modern approach is needed. New ideas welcome!

[eatstoomuchjam]

I'm not sure what "a modern approach" is, but iMovie and Luma Fusion are both pretty straightforward and unbloated from what I remember - and they both run on Mac.  I'm not sure if either one has a lut editor, but 3d lut editor has been pretty good for a while now, hasn't it?

[fuzzynormal]

Honestly, simple is best.  Heavy features get in the way of artistic creating.  My sin is always getting lost in the craft while ignoring the art. 

So, don't over think it.  multi-tracks of in, out, insert, overwrite, and keyframe control/motion for the audio and video as needed. 

An elegant titling implementation?  For myself, nothing fancy, but if you want modern I guess you'll have to have a quick and easy way to stick captions on vids.