What would you recommend for good video editing software?
By LouieWpHs04
@LouieWpHs04 (4554)
United States
March 11, 2013 1:42am CST
I am looking for FREEWARE video editing software, but I can deal with some inexpensive video editing software only if it's at least moderately good.
Any suggestions? If so, make sure to let me know the highlights! What you feel has worked best for you or someone you know, and why you recommend it! :)
3 responses
@LouieWpHs04 (4554)
• United States
18 Mar 13
Ironic, Sony Vegas Pro is the one I ended up using a few days ago. It's the only one that seemed to want to easily let me edit video and music(with tying audacity into it to eliminate any kind of background noise.)
Yeah, I figured out everything I planned on doing with it initially in about five minutes of searches. Thanks! I am actually using 12 I think, though.
@LouieWpHs04 (4554)
• United States
21 Mar 13
Yeah, most of the ones I looked through were either full of adware, spyware, etc. and they wanted me to download them. The other ones were branding every video I edited with their logo or BIG words of text in front telling everybody the video was edited by them.
Best use I found for it was the background audio noise removal with audacity then bringing the sound file back through sony vegas to tie it with my video.
@flamez3r0 (319)
• Puerto Rico
11 Mar 13
Hello :). I guess I should tell you that it really depends on your skill. If you are quite comfortable editing videos then you might try VSDC: http://www.videosoftdev.com/free-video-editor
It has a lot of functions like selectors, light and color correction, and a bunch of filters. Its quite a handy tool and it's free, but if you are just beginning it has a punishing learning curve. The fact that there's really no tutorial doesn't help at all. That's why if you are just starting and just want to cut, join or apply filters to clips then I recommend Avidemux: http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
This one is a simple editor, enough to learn a little and play around, but its easy to understand so to begin it's quite useful. Both are free, however if you really plan to edit video and are quite adept at it, I mean really good at it, then I recommend lightworks: http://www.lwks.com/
Lightworks is all you will ever need in video editing software, but if you don't know a lot about it will put you off video editing almost instantly. In fact, I spend my first weeks of using it reading tutorials, without being able to understand it at all. But if you can brace yourself against the complexity, you will have the only tool you will ever need. As far as I know the only price for using it is your patience and your youth :). Have fun editing videos.
@LouieWpHs04 (4554)
• United States
12 Mar 13
I will make sure to check them all out! Thanks for the pretty in-depth reviews about them! Hopefully I can find one that I am comfortable working with!
@XtremeGaming (742)
• South Africa
31 Mar 13
The second one flame zero I use myself its very good. I use it for making multiple videos into one long one. I also use virtual dub. Aka vdub very good too. Both are free.
@dadindine (230)
• Philippines
12 Mar 13
When I was still a student, I have friends who would join shortfilms competition in the university. Most of them would use Ulead. Most of the time, when there were video presentations in our organization, I would hear people talk about it so I guess it's safe to say that Ulead is good editor. Also, Ryan Higa, the asian-american youtube celebrity said he uses the software.
