Good simple video editor recommendation

To add, Natron is based on Nuke, they are so similar a person can jump straight from either to the other. Natron is having difficulty with funding currently and is in feature freeze due to it’s lone developer needing to put food on the table. This even though it’s considered relatively stable in current form The community exists at pixls.us

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Hi, There are a lot of high quality videos with graphics by Rack users.

I have got to grips with video recording of the screen but need a relatively simple video editor for putting up VCP entries.

Can anyone please recommend a good video editor with the ability for graphics overlay and movement of the graphics for Windows 10.

Thank you

Jamuud

Here’s a previous thread that discusses the subject:

TL;DR Openshot is good. So is Shotcut.

Personally I use Blender but that’s not “simple”.

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Shotcut has a huge amount of work going on behind the scenes. It is constantly getting bugfixes and features added. The backend is made for broadcast media and the dev is the dev of both.

In addition, like vcvrack, shotcut is available on OSX,Win, and Linux.

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That’s great. Thanks to both of you.

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if you’re using reaper as daw, then look into its (very basic) video editing capabilities.

on windows and osx there is also the free (as in beer) hitfilm express, which is very capable if you want to dig deeper some day.

iMovie is (was?) quite capable and inexpensive, and I believe there are reasonably priced versions of Final Cut Express as well on that platform. When I last used an (old) mac you could get Final Cut Express for around fifty dollars, and a copy of Motion for the same, which is kind of like having after effects and premier.

It depends. If your videos are already processed for editing then it’s not significantly harder than doing the same cut and splice jobs in Final Cut or Premier. It’s not as tolerant of splicing random clips as ex. iMovie and friends are, but professional VSEs and compositing software are built around workflows where the camera footage has been pre-processed for editing as well.

Vegas is a really great and intuitive software for windows, the prices start at 244usd

lightworks is a really great award-wining video editor, it have a free version

adobe premier is very used too

I m not recomend blender to you as video editor since is complicatet in the 2.7 version and is no ready to use in the 2.8

I think shotcut, avidemux,openshot that you are looking for

I shall try Blender and Shotcut first and see if they do what I need.

Thanks so much for all your help. I really appreciate it.

Dave Jamuud

DaVinci Resolve has a pretty usable free version

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

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it look pretty nice, and it have a Linux version too…
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One mention for Media Composer | First by Avid, though a bit oversized, not particularly friendly, and it can be picky with your system configuration. Well worth a try, anyway, for anyone willing to test and compare different solutions.

And yet another one:
Olive Video Editor

This one is still in Alpha, but looks promising.

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Olive editor at https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ is an open source or free editor.

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Avidemux can do many things too. I use it from time to time. It allows me to extract the part of a video that I save. Then from this part, I extract the audio in WAV that I remaster with OcenAudio or Audacity. Then I re-import the audio and apply some filters to the video (fade in/out, sharpeness etc) then export it all to an MKV file.

Joyoshare Video Trimmer Windows.

  1. From my persepective, if you pay for this program, you are basically paying for the time saved to learn a professional but free tool. It has perfect learning curves, simple UI, bunch of tutorial to tell you exactly how to edit the video in the way you want.
  2. Over 100+ formats for you to choose from, though I don’t think you need so many. I usually let the software match the format based on my device, so save the time to search for what format to choose.
  3. Export edited video without quality loss. But if you convert one video to another format, there will be quality loss for sure.

do you mean “presets”? there is not more than perhaps 10 video digital formats

It is important to find a video editor that meets your needs.

Get a room, you two.

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Hi guys. I don’t know if it’s already been mentioned here, but I highly recommend checking out Shotcut. It’s totally free and has plenty of features for beginners and more advanced users. And hey, have you ever thought about studying a cinematography course at film school in Prague? I’ve heard it’s awesome there, and it could really help you take your video editing skills to the next level. Actually, my friend who studied there advised me on Shotcut. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

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