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What is a good free video editor for windows 10?

Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,244
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

What is a good free video editor for windows 10?  I know there are paid ones but right now I need a free one.

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  • xmasrosexmasrose Posts: 1,403

    I use Shotcut. Works for me. https://www.shotcut.org/

  • lamoid_5f20d3e469lamoid_5f20d3e469 Posts: 297

    I use avidemux. Free open source http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/ ; Works very well for me.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,043

    Blackmagic Design's Davinci Resolve. 

  • Seven193Seven193 Posts: 1,078

    I haven't used Davinci Resolve before, but it looks pretty cool.  The free version doesn't do GPU acceleration, so encoding/decoding videos are much slower than the paid one.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,043

    I haven't looked at the comparison chart in a while, but from what I remember, all the functionality you gain from the paid version is stuff that you'd basically need to be in a serious production environment to notice, but it's possible I'm remembering wrong. I have the paid version anyway, so it's no issue for me. 

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,752

    I use openshot and like it, although I don;t do much with videos https://www.openshot.org/

  • SpaciousSpacious Posts: 481

    I use Blender for video editing.  Blender does just about everything.

  • Alley RatAlley Rat Posts: 390

    I like kdenlive.

     

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,244

    Spacious said:

    I use Blender for video editing.  Blender does just about everything.

    Wow!  I have the free software Blender and also a Blender I got from Kmart while they were open in my area.  One is powerful software, but the other tends to just blend food or smoothies.

    I will ask my real question in a bit.

  • SpaciousSpacious Posts: 481

    Sfariah said:

    Wow!  I have the free software Blender and also a Blender I got from Kmart while they were open in my area.  One is powerful software, but the other tends to just blend food or smoothies.

    I will ask my real question in a bit.

    This made me laugh.  A lot.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,244

    Oh I remember my question.  Does blender take still images such as renders from DS or Poser to make a video?

  • SpaciousSpacious Posts: 481
    edited March 2022

    When I render animation in DAZ, I render to a PNG image sequence and use blender to turn that into a movie if that's what you're asking.  It's quite easy.  Sometimes I render with no background and Blender makes it easy to put whatever background and even animate that too.  Like the way they used to do animation in the Looney Tunes / early Disney days.

    I must have deleted my bookmark to a simple tutorial on it, but if you Open New Video Editing Project in Blender.  I think you want to set the frame rate you want before you import the images.  Under the Add Menu will be Image Sequence, and if your images are aleady numbered they'll just pop in as frames.  Choose what folder to render to, what file type you want and push render.  It almost couldn't be simpler.

    There's also lots of Fade and Wipe effects for scene transitions or whatever, if you need that.

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  • nakamuram002nakamuram002 Posts: 787

    In general, I use Avidemux.  For .wmv files I use the old Windows Movie Maker.

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/files/avidemux/2.8.0/

    https://www.winmoviemaker.com/

  • montrealfilmguymontrealfilmguy Posts: 127

    I use Shotcut which is just great. and VSDC which is free but spectacularly amazing.

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