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What is the best video creating and editing software?

davidmiler
davidmiler over 4 years ago

What is the best video creating and editing software?

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  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 4 years ago +9 suggested
    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…
  • dougw
    dougw over 4 years ago +7 suggested
    I use Microsoft Movie Maker. It is simple to use and it is free and it does everything I need.
  • colporteur
    colporteur over 4 years ago +6 suggested
    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…
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  • balearicdynamics
    0 balearicdynamics over 4 years ago

    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$

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    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.

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  • beacon_dave
    0 beacon_dave over 4 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    "...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…

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  • balearicdynamics
    0 balearicdynamics over 4 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    Hey Dave, thank you for the information. Where I can find about the offer? I received the news of version 17. The past month was still in beta but now I see that it seems released with a studio license at 255 Euro (the version 16 studio was about 600, too much for me).

     

    Enrico

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    0 balearicdynamics over 4 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    Hey Dave, thank you for the information. Where I can find about the offer? I received the news of version 17. The past month was still in beta but now I see that it seems released with a studio license at 255 Euro (the version 16 studio was about 600, too much for me).

     

    Enrico

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  • beacon_dave
    0 beacon_dave over 4 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    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.

     

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  • balearicdynamics
    0 balearicdynamics over 4 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    Hey Dave! Many thanks. I just ordered the bundle now image and passed the link to a friend.

     

    Cheers, Enrico

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