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Flowblade video editor 2.0 was released a day ago with the largest changes to workflow and UX.

Flowblade release highlights:

Select between 1 – 9 tools to be available via tool menu and shortcut keys 1-9
Configurable timeline behaviours: drag’n’drop, composiors autofollow
Option to choose between two Workflow Preset options:Standard workflow, file style workflow.
New tools: Keyframe tool, Multitrim tool combines Trim, Roll and Slip tool into one, Cut tool, and Ripple Trim tool.
Overwrite tool’s name was changed to Move
New custom theme requires GTK+ > = 3.22
Keyframe editing updates, Edit Action updates, and more.

How to Install Flowblade 2.0 in Ubuntu 18.04:

Flowblade offers official .deb package available for download at:

After downloaded the deb package, click install it via Gdebi (available in Ubuntu Software) package manager and enjoy!

The third release of Flowblade Nonlinear video editor has been released with a lot of new features and enhancements. In Flowblade 1.0:

Tools metaphor is used for editing instead of Edit Modes like before
Audio Mixer window with VU meter + gain and pan controls for all tracks and master out (Requires MLT 0.8.8)
Affine Blend compositor provides single point of control to create keyframed composites with both opacity and affine transform and all the standard blend modes (Requires Frei0r 1.4, which isn’t widely in repos)
Image sequences of numbered frames can be imported now as media
Preset rendering options for commonly used file types are made available to the user
Range Log panel enables user to save and name Mark In/Out ranges on media files. This is very useful when working with long files that have many areas of interest.
Marks can now be placed to identify positions on the timeline.
Single track rendered transitions for quick dissolves and wipes
Auto consolidate blanks, no more multiple blanks between clips after some edits
GUI Look’n’Feel was updated with over 20 new icons and new custom buttons

Other features and enhancements:

Updated application menu
Configurable Tabs position
Configurable Timecode display position
Keyboard shortcuts list window
“Centring” action for Compositor editors
TAB key switches between Timeline/Clip display on monitor
Keyboard shortcut CTRL+L for logging clip ranges
Arrow keys move source image in Compositor editors
Project events panel and persistent project events data
8 video/1 audio and 1 video/8 audio track layoutsn for sequences
Media objects are now displayed using large thumbnails with information overlays
Noise and EBUBars image producers
Bin panel is now resizable
Colgate white balance plugin
Tracks menu
Support for Copy/Paste in Title Editor
Runtime environment data can be saved into a file
Rename and Clip Color features added to Clip context menus
Make cut action available when working with trim edit tools
Image Grid filter
Audio information for clip is displayed with level data instead of waveform
Panel sizes are now persistent
UP/DOWN arrows move position to In/Out Marks and clip ends on Clip Monitor display
HOME/END keys move position to timeline start/end
Sync Parent feature GUI update
Timeline focus fixes to make keyboard shortcuts available better
M keyboard shortcut for adding markers
Sync frame offsets visible
Display selected range on timeline frame widget
Display selected range length for Clips under monitor

Install Flowblade 0.10:

Click to download flowblade_0.10.0-1_all.deb. Then run below command to install the package:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/flowblade_0.10.0-1_all.deb; sudo apt-get -f install

This has been tested on Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 14, Linux Mint 15. Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 11.10, Linux Mint 12, Linux Mint 13 and Debian 7 should work.