What is the best video creating and editing software?

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balearicdynamics · Answer

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.

dougw · Answer

I use Microsoft Movie Maker. It is simple to use and it is free and it does everything I need.

colporteur · Answer

Don't you just hate when you a response to a question is a question. "How do you define best?" The definition of "best" that is applied to this response is, software that had no price tag attached. There was sufficient documentation available that enabled me to install it (i.e on Linux) and support the simple project I was working on. Finally advanced enough to enable me to gain some knowledge to help me understand what an video editing tool requires in terms of options. I use an open-source product called One-Shot Video Editor. Video production is not a field that generates interest for me so One-Shot was the best for me.

ajcc · Answer

Back in 2014 Sean of the YouTube channel Computerphile edited a video with Kdenlive and had a less than smooth experience.

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In a follow up video made in 2017 Rob Miles shows how he used the same program to edit his videos, so Kdenlive is probably the way to go for video on Linux.

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In 2019 when the RPi 4 was released Sean made a video about the RPi 4 that he edited a RPi 4 using Kdenlive.

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There's also the website https://www.kdenlivetutorials.com/ which has tutorials on how to do some more advanced things in Kdenlive. Kdenlive have been around for many years and keeps improving with each new release. While I've never used it myself, it's the only one I've heard recommended.

jpnbino · Answer

Hi, It is a Broad question. Could you set some requirements? - Free or Paid ? - Professional or Hobbyst ? Camtasia is known for being very friendly and easy to use, but you've gotta try out. I used it before and it was easy. there are many tutorials and I think you can use it with watermark in trial mode. A bit pricy but does the job.

shabaz · Answer

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.

koudelad · Answer

Depends on your requirements. I like OpenShot Video editor, it is free, open-source and runs on Windows and Linux.

beacon_dave · Answer

"...Indeed, if you prefer a little bit bigger investment, you can also by the full console for just 30.000$..." FYI there is currently a special offer on where you can get the DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor free with a new DaVinci Resolve 17 software licence. Not quite a full console, but... https://images.blackmagicdesign.com/images/products/davinciresolve/product-grid/enlargements/davinci-resolve-speed-edito…

gam3t3ch · Answer

I am going to assume its for use on the raspberry pi? If so I have been using flowblade on all my raspberry pi desktop units its simple and has all the features I need and really doesn't bog the unit down like some of the others. Kdenlive is great if you have a 8gb pi4 it can be very picky at times and can get frustrating.

beacon_dave · Answer

Check with your local BMD retailer e.g. https://cvp.com/product/blackmagic-bmd-dv-resstud-davinci-resolve It was announced and demonstrated at the DaVinci Resolve 17 launch webinar.

beacon_dave · Answer

Demo of the Speed Editor control at around 01:26:25 into the 'Introducing DaVinci Resolve 17' video here: https://youtu.be/0aJwBKIbMHY?t=5187

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