Krita might be able to suit your needs. It’s on par with GIMP, but a lot of people find the interface nicer, and if you are doing any drawing the tablet support is by all reports much nicer.

Shock!

I had a suspicion! Good luck to you both!

It’s going to depend very much on the features that your daughter used in capcut and what she will need. If it’s their “AI” tools and tiktok filters, probably not. If someone knows of foss projects that have those I’d love to hear about them!

If she just needs a video editor that’s free and powerful kdenlive is much simpler than getting into something like davinci resolve (which I would never recommend as a first step unless someone was very passionate about the editing process itself) and will give her the power to do pretty much anything you’d want, outside of proprietary filters or simple one-click tools.

Openshot seems fairly similar to kdenlive, maybe a little simpler. Check it out if that might work for you. I’ve never used it and can’t compare.

Another one I have not used but is again MUCH simpler with fewer features but this may be a plus actually is Vidcutter. It looks like what I might imagine a FOSS version of Windows Movie Maker might be. Just drag clips in, cut them, mash them together, export. Simple, but not anything fancy.

So in order of least experience and desire to learn the software needed to most, I would recommend Vidcutter, then Openshot, then Kdenlive.

In order of the potential quality and variety of projects possible it’s directly inverse.

Unless your daughter knows what ACES and REC 709 means then maybe point her toward Davinci.

Thanks for the suggestion, I love the way it’s laid out and the price is very reasonable! I’ll put it on the table

Oh you know what I might have clicked on the on premise supported version and saw the price of $695 per month and noped out lol, thanks I’ll take a closer look. I see the git repository now.

That looks cool! But my folder is already 18gb and is well over the 10gb of free storage they offer. Also self hosting is out of my price range for them.

That looks cool for 3d models but it doesn’t look like it supports 2d images as well? If I have to use a different program for 3d and 2d assets then I will def be looking at Manyfold/VanDAM

It’s kind of beautiful in its grotesqueness

ooo you may be on to something! It really rolls off the tongue! Add a few words and turn it into a recursive acronym and nobody will be able to resist the raw marketing genius!

We need to fork peertube for short form content and call it FlikFlok

Note to self: That does NOT say TickTok

It’s definitely not ready to hand off to a regular user to install and use, you’re right. I don’t think there is an off the shelf alternative.

You could look into whisper. It’s a neural net one from openai but they’ve actually opened it up and it can run locally.

Not exactly the best in terms of pure calendar stuff, but I’m using the local calendar on home assistant, since I am using that for other things as well. It wouldn’t be my first or second choice to recommend to people who just want a calendar but it’s one that’s available and can integrate into home automation stuff

Does the Fediverse have more of a mental health problem than other social media sites? Or is it just more visible and more likely to be hidden away?