ive posted a lot of complaints about free software but also i routinely have a solid experience with shotcut, inkscape, gimp, ffmpeg, imagemagick, and avidemux.
I've complained a lot about free software and open-source stuff, but like... I use it a lot, I like it a lot, I'm an advocate for the use, adoption, contribution to, creation and improvement of free software and their projects, and the things I use which are free-software, have been some of the best utilities for the things I need them for. I've put a list below the fold here.