UkingViking
Well-known member
I spend a lot of time searching for a free video editing software that worked for me, so now I finally found one - I though I would share my experience.
Do hijack the thread with other software recommendations if you want to.
I use a Windows PC.
Windows movie maker
I started out with Windows Movie Maker, which is a fine little piece of software, but it has some annoying features or lack of the same.
There is only one video track, so if you want to put in a still and go back to video - you have to cut the track up and fit it back together.
Any cross-over between clips, of between clips and stills, will mess up the timeline - I still havent figures out where the fading time is taken from.
All this is pretty irrelevant for a lot of uses - but for ukulele videos, where you want to line up video footage of ukulele playing with an audio track recorded at the same time, it is very limiting.
Lightworks
This looked so difficult that I dared not even install it, but I am sure it is great if you learn it
Openshot
Openshot seems to have very nice features, with multiple video tracks. The problem is that it is made for Linux, and though they have made a Windows edition, but it sure didn't run on my Windows 10 PC. It constantly chrashed, and wasn't able to render even a small video without messing up sound and everything.
I assume it works well on Linux, and they might make a working windows version one day, but for now it is not a viable option.
Shortcut video editor
This is what I discovered a few weeks back, and have been using since. With multiple video tracks you can fade between videos and still keep the audio synchronised. It is not as simple as Movie maker, but still easy to approach - especially since there are a lot of youtube toturials.
I sometimes have to restart the software when it starts to misbehave, and but it doesn't chrash like Openshot, and it renders movies within reasonable time.
Do hijack the thread with other software recommendations if you want to.
I use a Windows PC.
Windows movie maker
I started out with Windows Movie Maker, which is a fine little piece of software, but it has some annoying features or lack of the same.
There is only one video track, so if you want to put in a still and go back to video - you have to cut the track up and fit it back together.
Any cross-over between clips, of between clips and stills, will mess up the timeline - I still havent figures out where the fading time is taken from.
All this is pretty irrelevant for a lot of uses - but for ukulele videos, where you want to line up video footage of ukulele playing with an audio track recorded at the same time, it is very limiting.
Lightworks
This looked so difficult that I dared not even install it, but I am sure it is great if you learn it
Openshot
Openshot seems to have very nice features, with multiple video tracks. The problem is that it is made for Linux, and though they have made a Windows edition, but it sure didn't run on my Windows 10 PC. It constantly chrashed, and wasn't able to render even a small video without messing up sound and everything.
I assume it works well on Linux, and they might make a working windows version one day, but for now it is not a viable option.
Shortcut video editor
This is what I discovered a few weeks back, and have been using since. With multiple video tracks you can fade between videos and still keep the audio synchronised. It is not as simple as Movie maker, but still easy to approach - especially since there are a lot of youtube toturials.
I sometimes have to restart the software when it starts to misbehave, and but it doesn't chrash like Openshot, and it renders movies within reasonable time.