My recommended tools (mostly the ones that I have experience with).

In my (limited) experience, different software works better for different styles of projects. Here’s my personal list of software that I use for various projects which can all be easily installed from most (all?) package managers:

• Kdenlive

• ShotCut

• Olive

• OpenShot

Kdenlive is fantastic for quick edits, though it can do a lot more (beyond the quick edits it is clunky imo). ShotCut can do cool things like motion tractking easily. Olive is fantastic for subtitles, but I absolutely would not recommend it for anything with audio since for me the playback when rendering just completely fails.

I know that it seems insane (and should be unnecessary), but I will often do a chunk of a project in one particular editor and then move it to another. Say, for instance, that I want to rough cut down a huge file or just do basic transitions I will do that in Kdenlive. And then use ShotCut or Olive to add additional things depending on how easy it is to do whatever in that editor. It is clunky, but that's what I've found to work. I've only done about ~100 edits this way, so I'd love to hear from more experienced people. ETA: OpenShot. The workflow isn't for me, but some may like it.

Props to @ctag@lemmy.sdf.org for the suggestion to make and pin this post.