Video
Davinci Resolve
Definitively my main tool, it’s complex video suite doing;
- Media management
- Editing
- Visual effects
- Motion graphic
- Audio post-processing
- Subtitles
- Rendering It covers everything that I would otherwise need: Premier Pro, After effects, Audicate, Media Encoder, Nuke which I’ve been using in the past, and happy to leave behind
FFmpeg
CLI tool
Photo
Affinity Photo
Photoshop alternative, both programs are vaguely similar, but this one has quite a better performance, It made huge deal while back when I was doing photo restoration, 15000x10000px 600MB TIFF scans were almost impossible to work with on Photoshop, even on my high-end PC. Also it doesn’t require monthly subscription and is more privacy-friendly, sadly it yet doesn’t have a new AI tools.
Darktable
Free and open source Lightroom alternative, works on Linux quite more advanced tho for RAW post-processing, as a non-RAW editor work quite similar
Luminar NEO
Another Lightroom alternative this one is more bleeding edge packed with plenty AI tools, I like for faster editing and for batch processing as the AI tools are quite adaptive and content aware.
Design
Affinity Designer
InDesign
Art
Stable Diffusion
Krita
Writing
Obsidian
Markdown editor and knowledge management system, using wiki links and .org It covers all writing including:
- Journaling
- Blogs
- Video scripts
- Written strategies It also has Canvas and mind maps for more visual approach
Coding
VScodium
I’m not a developer, but sometimes I need to code something, is it FFmpeg script, shell tool or this very website, I use VScodium it’s FOSS alternative for popular VScode from Microsoft.
Hugo
Static site generator, for sites like this one