Free Video Editor

General Discussion
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I know some of you are aspiring twitch and youtube stars. With GRG’s game play you’ll need all the help you can get. One thing people ask about are video editors. A lot of the GRG guys use Sony Movie Editor. It’s about $50 and works pretty well for our needs. I also know a lot of you are cheap asses and don’t want to spend a nickel. That’s fine, I have a pretty good option for you.

As some of you know I run Ubuntu Linux on one of my laptops. Its the main one I use at home. There’s a really nice video editor that’s very similar to the Sony Movie Studio. It’s called OpenShot. It’s open source and even better, it’s free. They now released a Windows version (it’s in beta). Give it a try if you need something to slap some videos together. Can’t beat the price.
http://www.openshot.org/

http://www.openshot.org/images/slider_pic08.jpg

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I’ve used this to create the youtube versions of the ReaperCast. So it survived that.

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I was just wondering what Open source program you we talking about in chat recently. I have SMS as well, but want to try other options.

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Might have to give this a shot. I’ve always used Windows Movie Maker.

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I just downloaded it, my videos are really nothing special anyway, but I’m gonna check it out. I only really use that Windows Movie Maker anyway.

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I use filmora on mine and this looks very similar going to have to check this out and since it’s free why not right

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Here’s another open-source free video editor to try.

https://www.shotcut.org/

Feature Highlights in Shotcut Video Editor

  • Shortcuts Support – Minimize how often you leave your keyboard to use your mouse by using the various shortcuts built into the video editor. E.g. control playback speed and direction by tapping J, K, L. Repeatedly tap J or L to go faster.
  • Install Multiple Versions – An advantage of using a Snap is that you can run multiple versions on your system. With each Shotcut versions based on a date you can decide to update your version as they new one are released monthly or just keep the versions separately.
  • Record Voice Overs – This is a long-awaited handy feature that came in version 17.02.
  • Broad Media Format Support – Thanks to FFmpeg you can work with video and audio files in hundreds of formats and codecs without the need for imports. You can use multi-format timelines, resolutions and frame-rates within a project.
  • Tons of Video Effects – Use any of the free inbuilt video effects including audio fade in/out, auto-rotate, deinterlacing, video wipe transitions (barn, box, iris, diagonal, matrix, e.t.c), and Alpha channel filtering modes, just to name a few.
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I like openshot and use it frequently. I haven’t sorted out shotcut yet.

I do need to figure out how to edit / trim YouTube videos for a project I’m working on.