Audio and Video editing softwares suggestions needed

I have a video from which I need to cut and extract pieces of the audio track so I can use them in an other video, I do not need the video itself.

Also as I’m making a video with a photo album I’m open to suggestions for editors as I have yet to find anything on par with iMovie for ease of use. I’ve tried HitFilm on WIndows but that’s just overkill and a nightmare for a beginner like me.
Right now I’m using Kdenlive on Linux which looks easy enough but doesn’t agree too much with GNOME and the white theme is burning my retinas :sweat_smile:

I have zero experience with editing so… please don’t hate me too much for the stupid questions.

Look up Audacity, with the FFMPEG plugin it can import arbitrary video files and extract the audio tracks.

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Thanks, I’ll give it a try

As for video editing, I would probably download Davinci Resolve. Never used it yet, but it is freely available (free as in gratis, but not libre), and runs on Linux as well.
It is probably insane overkill for you right now, but its the only one that comes to mind.

Kdenlive when it works is pretty decent. Davinci is more for Fedora and Red Hat/CentOS distros and isn’t beginner friendly.

Honestly, there isn’t anything matching iMovie’s Ken Burns effect other than Premiere Elements on Windows. If you were to spend some money making a photo album video, Premiere Elements is worth looking into.

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There’s a script out there somewhere that will repackage it into a deb, but I’m not sure how well it works.

I’m on Fedora so running DaVinci wouldn’t be an issue, I’ll give it a try.