What is the best video creating and editing software?

f you ask for the best video for editing and making videos, after years of use of professional video programs (Premiere for first), I moved to Da Vinci resolve 16. It is free, extremely useful, and you can produce very high-quality videos. The biggest investment you should put in your budget is 20$ to buy the very well done and clear ebooks for using it. It is easy to use and has an incredible quantity of features, from multiple timelines to a perfect colour correction, as well as up to 32 tracks for Audio live or dubbing. If you want to make videos, this software changes the game.

The free version is available without limitations while there is a studio version with a very few more features, mostly useful for digital film making (I mean, cinema). That is not our case, I suppose.

On this product – to which most of the videomakers are moving during the last two years – you can also invest less then 1000K$ in some hardware to improve the performances but it is not essential if you are short of budget.

Instead, if for you "better" is a synonym of easier, crap, minimal, with automatic "social" effect, any other stuff free, open-source or just part of the OS like Movie Maker (Windows) or iMovie (Mac) are for you.

Enrico

BTW my last videos in 2020 are a good example of my personal learning curve using Da Vinci Resolve. A large series of examples of you can get can be found here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/alicemirror

Indeed, if you prefer a little bit bigger investment, you can also by the full console for just 30.000$

But, jokes apart, what left me speechless, is that the software you can get for free is the same. And, just in case, the studio commercial license of this beast costs only 250$. If you consider that the user policy of (few comparable) software like the Adobe Premiere, no matter for what purpose you use it, is on a monthly fee so that in one year you buy at least two licenses.

Hi Enrico, I've moved to that too!

I've ditched Camtasia, although that's the easiest-to-use solution I've experienced so far. There's definitely a learning curve with Resolve and it does seem to need a recent PC and lots of resources (my 1-year old laptop struggles!). Still, I'm enjoying learning how to use it (I can only do beginner stuff with it). Thanks for the suggestion to obtain e-books, that's a great idea.

Hi Enrico, I've moved to that too!

I've ditched Camtasia, although that's the easiest-to-use solution I've experienced so far. There's definitely a learning curve with Resolve and it does seem to need a recent PC and lots of resources (my 1-year old laptop struggles!). Still, I'm enjoying learning how to use it (I can only do beginner stuff with it). Thanks for the suggestion to obtain e-books, that's a great idea.

Hey Shabaz, happy to hear this. The real great job they have done is creating a new generation of videomaker, from newbies to cinema professionals, that uses their tools for free. Their business is just the hardware. They produce the best cinema cameras as well as their controllers. The concept is that until you are at a non-pro level or very low budget, you can do anything anyway and better then as your career goes up, you are already inside their ecosystem so why not?

To work with high resolutions and better working conditions, anyway, it is not the processor that makes the difference. I have a mac mini i7 with 32 Gb of Ram and work on SSD. But there are still some lost of fluidity while editing due to the powerful but not super powerful graphic card. The best investment before complex and expensive controllers is and external graphic card.

Enrico