Avidemux is a very simple video editor, so thats half your problem.
I'm also still searching for the organisational half.
Lossless cut is an amazingly quick and light tool to just cut front and back off videos. It's my goto for any light trimming.
I haven't heard of this. Is it a CLI or GUI tool? Sounds really useful.
GUI. It may have cli capabilities but never used it that way.
There's a flatpak, but it's a bit outdated at the moment.
also it works extremely fast because it doesnt re-encode. downside is slight imprecision on cutpoints.
I haven't used it too much myself, but you can try out digiKam for organzing stuff. It's mostly for images, so I don't know if you can trim videos directly in there.
For simple trimming, it is really hard to beat KDEnlive. Depending on just how many clips you'll need to import and edit, it might be the tool for the whole job.
That is what I'm doing now, but for the current one there are around 300 clips and it takes me forever just to trim them and put them in chronological order. So I was hoping in the age of AI there might be some too which would support me doing that.
I don't know what you intend to eventually do, but just so you know, kdenlive can get really unstable with big projects like that. If your goal is to eventually edit them into one video, do it in chunks and save often.
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In my (limited) experience, different software works better for different styles of projects. Here's my personal list of software that I use for various projects which can all be easily installed from most (all?) package managers:
Kdenlive
ShotCut
Olive
Kdenlive is fantastic for quick edits, though it can do a lot more (beyond the quick edits it is clunky imo). ShotCut can do cool things like motion tractking easily. Olive is fantastic for subtitles, but I absolutely would not recommend it for anything with audio.