Best Video Editing Software? - totally not for nsfw content, oh no

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Update: Premiere Elements is garbage, not only the UI looks horrible, it isn't really any faster than Premiere Pro either.

So they did to the Premiere Elements GUI what they did to Photoshop Elements. Adobe are such idiots, they want people to move to their subscription plan for their big boy programs so making tard baby interfaces to really rub it in that Elements is a cheap program is mind boggling. In PhotoElem they did things like move the trash bin and new layer buttons from the bottom to the top of that window and changed some hotkeys/combos in what felt like an attempt to spite me. I assume they did something similar with Premiere?

Don't need no GUI, I edit videos with FFMPEG through the command line.

Don't need no software, I edit video by opening and closing my eyes then play it back by remembering what I saw.

 

[TomFerna]

Adobe premiere and shotcut it's enough for my travel blog

 

[Michael Wade]

This is an excellent question. If you have a shitty ass PC and want something good for fast editing but light on effects, I recommend finding videopad editor version 2.41. recent versions are too dam slow and complicated for my tastes.

Just be aware that its not something you can leave on for extended periods of time. It tends to have an issue where it glitches oddly if your working on it for more then a couple hours, but your not going to lose progress when you save in this state, you just need to open and close it again. The most problems you might have is if you work on something for a while but forget to save it as a project file.

I dont think it works on more recent windows 10.

 

[Mr. Duck]

I've been using Vegas for more than a decade, and it works mostly fine for me, it used to crash a lot on older versions, but more recent ones have become more stable, still, i'd like to know of there is a even more stable editor out there.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

LightWorks is another program that's free(and paid). It's pretty good.

Lightworks - Easy to Use Pro Video Editing Software

Lightworks video editing software helps all editors and creators; from Oscar-winning Hollywood legends to YouTubers. Bring your video to life today.

www.lwks.com

Resolve have a feature that is really good: proxy media. Takes a while to preprocess and eats up disk space but when it's done you can sit in a tent and edit 4K video on a $500 laptop without stuttering.

 

[acme]

if your technologically stunted like me and rely on or have a shitty chromebook i recommend a fairly competent browser-based editing software called WeVideo. if your still in school there's a chance they will payroll a full membership.

Spoiler: site

#1 Online Video Editor — Start Editing Videos Free | WeVideo

Edit online faster & easier than ever. Use stock footage, animated titles & green screening. No software to download/install. Start now!

www.wevideo.com

Its pretty average as far as software goes, a bit bare bones with transitions/text and lining things up can be finicky but it comes with a shit ton of stock footage, music, and assets.
some cons are the upload times, i assume because its all browser and cloud based, so if your planning on uploading any footage from a camera larger than 100mb prepare a movie. also if you aren't freeloading off your schools broadcasting class its gonna cost you like 20 bucks a month so you may as well get premiere pro.

Spoiler: editor layout

 

[Coffee Shits]

I'll throw in a vote for Vegas. It's clunky but powerful so it gets the job done.

A lot of people swear by Premiere but as with all Adobe software these days steer clear of Creative Cloud. There's no reason to have to run an always-online launcher to sentence-splice some YouTuber into saying "nigger".

 

[Pee Cola]

HitFilm Express is my go-to. The free version has a solid range of basic features, effects etc. Extra feature/SFX packs aren't outrageously expensive, motion graphics (if you want that sort of thing in your videos) are pretty easy to make and it'll run on modest hardware. I can edit 1080p video on 4th-gen i5 laptop with 8GB RAM and Intel HD graphics without any real issues other than a bit of lag when previewing video.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I think the greatest advice is to find a tool that feels right in your hand, so to say. Personally I can't deal with the widgets in Premiere, it's such a small complaint but they drive me nuts while someone else might find them to be exactly what they want. The thing that makes me clumsy makes someone else nimble and vice versa, that just how it is.

 

[TomFerna]

Adobe premiere really may not be clear, especially for beginners, you can use a Shotcut or the same Openshot for a start. Still like Movavi https://www.movavi.com/ is not a bad video editor, a beginner in video editing can immediately figure it out

 

[Pee Cola]

I think the greatest advice is to find a tool that feels right in your hand, so to say. Personally I can't deal with the widgets in Premiere, it's such a small complaint but they drive me nuts while someone else might find them to be exactly what they want. The thing that makes me clumsy makes someone else nimble and vice versa, that just how it is.

Definitely. There are so many video editing packages out there there days, it shouldn't be too hard for most people to find one that fits their use case and hardware capabilities. It helps that many of these packages are either free, freemium or have decent trial periods to help the user determine which is right for them.

The other suggestion I'd make is that sometimes more than one editor can be useful to have. I tend to use Avidemux when all I need to do is chop a larger video into smaller chunks, or do some quick and dirty editing of a video where all the scenes follow each other in logical order and don't need to be moved around on a timeline e.g. cutting commercials out of old VHS tapes I've digitised.

 

[Dona Morte]

Who uses Adobe Premiere Pro here? Please start conversation with me.

 

[TheShedCollector]

Premiere on it's own is decent, but when it's teamed up with After Effects, Photoshop, Audition etc it's in a completely different league.

 

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