The Minimalist Video Editor
I named the editor GoZen, Go comes from Godot and Zen from ... zen. I want this editor to be very useful, but not be too complex to the end user so they can edit videos whilst being zen. Honestly, I had a very good reason to use zen in the name but I completely forgot as I only wrote down the name and not how I came up with it. ^^"
（午前）Gozen also means morning in Japanese, so the logo represents a rising sun. The logo and look of the editor is all still a work in progress!
I have talked about this in my first video of this project so I don't want to talk too much more about the reason other than to say: Godot is capable of many things, it gives me a good UI framework and tons of possibilities for people to create their own modules and plugins for the editor and the 3D/2D capabilities save me some work to implement more complexs features.
I don't know why people keep asking this, YES I HAVE USED BLENDER!! I have used so many video editors on Linux and they all have problems or are too complex to use for simple projects. I want to edit videos without crashes the whole time (KdenLive), I want an editor that accepts my video files (Davinci Resolve), I want an editor which is not overly complex to learn and get into (Blender), ...
I'm sorry for the people who feel offended that I don't like their video editor choice but my vision of a video editor is different than yours I guess. I want a simple, yet powerful video editor.
May be bad to say that this video editor will be bad, but I want to only make the basic functionalities of this editor and let other people improve upon it by contributing or by making their own modules. Everything is a module, the startup screen, file explorer, timeline, ... Everything can be switched out and replaced.
I create the interfaces so people can easily design modules that will work with others (as long as they use the module interface properly).