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Nothing makes an impression like moving pictures with sound. That's why digital video continues to grow in importance online. Couple that trend with the ever-increasing availability of devices capable of high-resolution video recording—phones, GoPros, DSLRs—and the case for ever-more powerful video editing software becomes clear. Further, the software must be usable by nonprofessionals, and it has to keep up with newer formats such as HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and 360-degree VR video, and it has to be able to handle 4K and higher resolution.
Increasingly, new capabilities trickle down from professional-level software to the consumer category. That's a good thing for nonprofessional movie editors, since the more consumer-oriented software tends to make easier procedures that can sometimes be pretty tricky in the pro-level software. Read on for a survey of the latest trends in video editing software along with our top picks in the field.
Multicam, Motion Tracking, and Yet More Motion
Advanced abilities continue to make their way into accessible, affordable, and consumer-friendly video editing software as each new generation of software is released. For example, multicam editing, which lets you switch among camera angles of the same scene shot with multiple video cameras, used to be a feature relegated to pro-level software. Now this and many other advanced effects are available in programs designed for use by nonprofessional enthusiasts.
Another impressive effect that has made its way into consumer-level video editing software is motion tracking, which lets you attach an object or effect to something moving in your video. You might use it to put a blur over the face of someone you don't want to show up in your video. You specify the target face, and the app takes care of the rest, tracking the face and moving the effect to follow it. This used to be the sole province of special effects software such as Adobe After Effects. Corel VideoStudio was the first of the consumer products to include motion tracking, and it still leads the pack in the depth and usability of its motion-tracking tool, though several others now include the capability.
The 4K Video Factor
Support for 4K video source content has become pretty standard in video editing software, but the support varies among the products. For example, some but not all of the applications can import Sony XAVC and XAVC-S formats, which are used by Sony's popular DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, camcorders, and professional video cameras. The same holds true for the H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. Most of the applications here now can import and export HEVC, though there are still a few holdouts.
360-Degree VR Support
Several of the products here (Adobe Premiere Elements is a notable exception) still support 3D video editing if that's your thing, though the this has been replaced by 360-degree VR footage like that shot by the Samsung Gear 360 as the current home-theater fad. As is often the case, our Editors' Choice, CyberLink PowerDirector was the first product in this group to offer support for this new kind of video media.
Other programs have jumped on board with 360 VR support, including Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro X, and Magix Movie Edit Pro. Support varies, with some apps including 360-compatible titles, stabilization, and motion tracking. PowerDirector is notable for including those last two. Final Cut offers a useful tool that removes the camera and tripod from the image, often an issue with 360-degree footage.
Video Editing 101
Of course, none of the extras matter if an app can't do the most basic editing tasks. At this point, however, all of the products included here do a good job of letting you join, trim, and split video clips. They also let you make use of special effects such as animated transitions, picture-in-picture (PiP), chroma-key (the technique that lets you place a subject against any background, often known as green screening), and filters that enhance colors or apply creative effects and distortions. With most of them you can add a multitude of timeline tracks that can accommodate video clips, effects, audio, and text overlays.
A tool coming to the latest versions of video editing applications is support for seamless transitions. Picture a scene showing people at a beach, and suddenly the sky zooms in and your in Rome or Paris, but it looks like you're in the same place because the transition glued the two scenes together using the sky. There are plenty of other examples of seamless transition; this magnificent video shows a good selection of them, and is partly responsible for starting the trend.
Color, LUTs and CLUTs
One of the capabilities that has been making its way into consumer-level video editing software is more-detailed color grading. Color wheels, curves, and histograms give editors control over the intensity of every shade. Related to this is support for LUTs (lookup tables), also known as CLUTs (color lookup tables). This staple of pro-level software lets you quickly change the look of a video to give it a specific mood. For example, think of the dark blue look of thriller movies like The Revenant. You can download LUTs for free from several sites or use those included with some video software to give your video a specific look. One well-known LUT type is the kind that can make a daytime scene look like it was shot at night.
Where the Action Is
Many video editing apps now include tools that cater to users of action cameras such as the GoPro Hero7 Black. For example, several offer automated freeze-frame along with speedup, slowdown, and reverse time effects. CyberLink PowerDirector's Action Camera Center pulls together freeze frame with stabilization, slo-mo, and fish-eye correction, and color correction for underwater footage. Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium includes the third-party NewBlue ActionCam Package of effects. And Wondershare Filmora lets you subscribe to new effect packs on an ongoing basis.
Titles That Zing
I've been seeing a lot of attention paid to creating title effects in the applications over the past year. Apple Final Cut Pro X has added 3D title creation, which is pretty spiffy, letting you extrude 2D titles and rotate them on three axes. Corel VideoStudio in its latest version also adds 3D Titling, though not as powerful as Apple's. PowerDirector's Title Designer offers transparency, gradient color, border, blur level, and reflection in titles; Magix has impressive title templates, complete with animations. Premiere Elements offers a nifty title effect in which your video fills the text characters, and Corel recently followed suit in VideoStudio 2019. Look for an application that lets you edit titles in WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) mode, so that you can type, format, and time it right over the video preview.
Gathering Speed
Video editing is one of the most computing-intensive activities around, so you'll want the best laptop or desktop you can afford if you're serious about cutting your own movies. Most applications help speed up the editing process by creating a proxy file of lower resolution, so that normal editing and previewing aren't slowed down by the huge full-resolution files.
Particularly intensive is the process of rendering your finished product into a standard video file that will by playable on the target device of choice, be that an HDTV, a laptop, or a smartphone. Most of the software can take advantage of your computer's graphics processor to speed this up. Be sure to check the performance section in each review linked here to see how speedy or slow the application is. In rendering speed testing, CyberLink and Pinnacle have been my perennial champs.
Other measures of performance include startup time and simple stability. Again, video editing is a taxing activity for any computer, involving many components. In the past, video editing programs took longer than most other apps to start up, and unexpected shutdowns were unfortunately common, even in top apps from top developers such as Adobe and Apple. The stability situation has greatly improved, but the complexity of the process, which increases as more powerful effects are added, means crashes will likely never be fully eliminated, and they often raise their ugly heads after a program update, as I found with the latest version of Pinnacle Studio.
Free Video Editing Software
If you don't want to invest a lot of money and effort into your video editing exploits, there are a few free options. Of course, if you use a Mac, the excellent iMovie comes with it. For PC users, Windows 10's Photos app (as of the Fall Creators Update) lets you join, trim, and even add background music, 3D animated effects, and titles to video.
There are also some free video apps on the Windows Store, including Movie Moments, PowerDirector Mobile, Movie Maker, and Magix Movie Edit Touch. Some of these are quite basic, but the Magix app is fairly capable, with clip joining, transitions, and effects, in a very touch-friendly interface.
Free video editing software often comes with legal and technical limitations, however. Some widely used codecs require licensing fees on the part of the software maker, meaning they can't offer free software that can handle these standard file formats. That said, the impressive open-source Shotcut does a lot of the same things that the paid applications in this roundup do, including things like chroma-keying and picture-in-picture. Shotcut is completely open-source and free, while another free option, Lightworks has paid options that remove a 720p output resolution limit. Note also that both Shotcut and Lightworks run on Linux as well as Windows and Mac.
What About Apple?
Though Mac users don't have the sheer number of software choices available for PCs, Apple fans interested in editing video are well served, by four products in particular. At the entry level, the surprisingly capable and enjoyable-to-use iMovie comes free with every Mac sold since at least 2011. iMovie only offers two video tracks, but does good job with chroma-keying, and its Trailers feature makes it easy to produce slick, Hollywood-style productions.
In the midrange, there's Adobe Premiere Elements, which is cross-platform between Macs and PCs, and offers a lot more features and lots of help with creating effects. Professionals and prosumers have powerful, though pricey options in Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere Pro. Final Cut is a deceptively simple application that resembles iMovie in its interface and ease of use, but it offers massively deep capabilities, and many third-party apps integrate with it for even more power. It also makes excellent use of the Touch Bar on the latest MacBook Pro, as shown in photo above. Premiere Pro uses a more traditional timeline and adds a large ecosystem of companion apps and plug-ins. It also excels in collaboration features.
Audio Editing
We still live in the days of talkies, so you want to be able to edit the audio in your digital moves as well as the images. Most of the products included here offer canned background music, and many, such as Pinnacle Studio, can even tailor the soundtrack to the exact length of your movie. All of these programs can separate audio and video tracks, and most can clean up background noise and add environmental audio effects such as concert hall reverb. A couple of the products have an auto-ducking feature, which lowers background music during dialog—a definite pro-level plus.
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What's Not Here
There are more video editing software applications than we can fit into this roundup of the best options, which includes only software rated three stars and higher. The best known among them is probably Vegas Movie Studio, which was recently acquired by Magix from Sony. Sony's product used a very cluttered interface that more resembled high-end professional video editing software from the early days of the craft. Magix has made some progress in simplifying it and bringing it up to par with the competition, but more work is needed for it to be included here.
Another program, VSDC Video Editor Pro, simply has too outdated an interface, making common tasks difficult. Longtime pro video editors will note the absence of Avid Media Composer, which is simply too unwieldy for PCMag's primarily consumer audience. There are a couple of more interesting applications—NCH VideoPad and AVS Video Editor among them—that we simply haven't tested yet.
The Finish Line
The video editing application you choose depends on your budget, the equipment you're using, and how serious you are. Fortunately, you're spoiled for choice with the products available. Peruse our in-depth reviews of enthusiast-level video editing software reviews linked below to see which is the right one for you.
One final note about the features table at the top of this story: Check marks represent differentiating, above-the-call-of-duty features, rather than essential ones. So, just because Nero Video and Wondershare Filmora don't have any checks, it doesn't mean they're not good choices. In fact, both offer decent basic editing on a budget.
Best Video Editing Software Featured in This Roundup:
Adobe Premiere Pro CC Review
MSRP: $19.99Pros: Clear, flexible interface. Lots of organizational tools. Responsive speed. Ultimate power in video editing. Rich ecosystem of video production apps. Excellent stabilization. Unlimited multi-cam angles.
Cons: No keyword tagging for media. Some techniques require additional applications such as After Effects or SpeedGrade.
Bottom Line: An expansive professional-level digital video editing program, Premiere Pro CC has everything today's pro video editor needs, particularly when it comes to collaboration.
Read ReviewCyberLink PowerDirector Review
MSRP: $129.99Pros: Fast rendering. Clear interface. Loads of effects. The most 360-degree video capabilities of any video editor. Multicam editing. 3D and 4K capability. Motion tracking. Screen recording.
Cons: No trimming in source panel. Number of options can make interface overwhelming. Weak color matching.
Bottom Line: PowerDirector is one of the fastest and most capable consumer-level video editing apps for Windows around, and the first to support 360-degree VR footage.
Read ReviewCorel VideoStudio Ultimate Review
MSRP: $99.99Pros: Wide selection of fun video-creation tools. Clear, simple interface. Fast rendering. Support for 360-degree VR, 4K Ultra HD, and 3D media. Multipoint Motion tracking. Multicam editing. HTML5 video page creation. Stop-motion tool.
Cons: No keyword tagging for media.
Bottom Line: Corel VideoStudio remains one of the most feature-packed consumer video editing packages around. The 2019 update adds powerful color-grading tools, seamless transitions, and text masks.
Read ReviewPinnacle Studio Ultimate Review
MSRP: $129.95Pros: Clear interface. Edits 360-degree VR content. Fast rendering performance in testing. Tons of effects. Multicam editing. 4K and H.265 support. Tagging and star ratings for media. Good audio tools. Masking tools.
Cons: Occasional crashes in testing. Unreliable motion tracking. Uneven 360-degree VR implementation.
Bottom Line: Pinnacle Studio is a fast, full-featured, near-professional-level video-editing application. New masking tools make it even more appealing, though our testing uncovered some instabilities.
Read ReviewMagix Movie Edit Pro Premium Review
MSRP: $129.99Pros: Lots of video effects. Multicam. Good titling tools. Trailer-like movie templates. Solid audio editing tools. Strong disc authoring. Fast rendering. Good stability. 360-degree media support.
Cons: Not much help with difficult procedures. Lacks import and organization tools. Extra costs and coded downloads for some video formats.
Bottom Line: Now with faster rendering, Movie Edit Pro offers solid stability, up-to-date support for 4K, 360-degree, and multicam editing, but it trails other video editing software in ease-of-use.
Read ReviewAdobe Premiere Elements Review
MSRP: $99.99Pros: Clear, simple interface. Guided Edits ease basic and advanced projects. Lots of video effects. Solid text tools. Powerful Audio editing. Good control over stabilization. 4K support.
Cons: No 360-degree VR or 3D editing. No multicam feature or screen recording capability. Slow rendering speeds. No HEVC support in Windows.
Bottom Line: Adobe's consumer video editing app adds a new start page, Auto Creations, a redesigned quick-editing interface, and faster performance.
Read ReviewWondershare Filmora Review
MSRP: $59.99Pros: Pleasing interface. Inexpensive. Lots of effects and overlays. Good title tool.
Cons: Action Cam and Cutter modes only allow one clip at a time. No search for effects or transitions. No motion tracking. No DVD menu or chapter authoring. Not a touch-friendly interface.
Bottom Line: Wondershare's Filmora video editing software may not have multicam or the hottest new VR tools, but it does have a pleasing interface and lots of effects.
Read ReviewApple Final Cut Pro X Review
MSRP: $299.99Pros: Magnetic, trackless timeline. Superior organization tools, including libraries, ratings, tagging, auto analysis for faces, scenes. Support for 360-degree footage and HDR. Multicam support. Fast performance. MacBook Touch Bar support.
Cons: Nontraditional timeline-editing may turn off longtime editors. Can't import projects from previous versions without a third-party plug-in. No stabilization or motion tracking for 360-degree video.
Bottom Line: Apple's professional-level video editing software, Final Cut Pro X, brings a wealth of power in an interface simple for pros and consumers alike. Recent highlights include rich support for 360-degree content and improved stability.
Read ReviewNero Video Review
MSRP: $49.99Pros: Inexpensive. Plenty of video effects. Good audio tools. Solid file format support, including H.265. Compatible with 4K content. Burns DVD, Blu-ray, and AVCHD.
Cons: Light on features. Outdated, unconventional interface. No 360 or 3D support. No motion tracking. No direct output to social networks.
Bottom Line: For less money than the competition, Nero offers a wide array of enthusiast-level video editing capabilities, but the interface is dated and it trails in support for new formats and techniques.
Read ReviewApple iMovie Review
MSRP: $0.00Pros: Beautifully simple interface. Color matching for consistent movie looks. Classy themes. Great chroma-keying tool. Lots of audio tools. Theater feature shares movies to all your Apple gear.
Cons: Not as flexible as some PC video editors. In the name of simplicity, some useful controls are missing. Does not support tagging. Lacks multicam or motion tracking capabilities. Limited to two video tracks.
Bottom Line: Apple's excellent entry-level desktop video editing application can turn your footage and photos into impressive productions.
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Best Video Editing Software For Windows 10 Pc
If you want to turn your boring videos into interesting videos or give your home videos a professional touch, then you need powerful video editing software. In the current market thousands of video editors free and paid versions software available. In that, we’ll discuss some of the top 10 best free video editing software on this page as given below.
Best Free 10 Video Editing Software:
1. Corel VideoStudio Pro:
Corel VideoStudio Prois the best video editing software for Windows PC. The best free video editoredits your favorite video and audio files to make them more attractive looks.At the same time, you can easily combine, sync, and edit footage from multiplecameras and select the angle you want to show as your video plays. The free video editor also creates andcustomizes the movement of graphics, titles, and more along a defined path.It allows you to show multiple videostreams simultaneously with new Split Screen video templates. And, easily dragand drop to create impressive promotional videos or share the highlights fromyour videos.
Corel VideoStudioallows you to add moving text, graphics, blur faces, logos, or license plates,in your video with accurate motion. By using Chroma Key, adjust video masks,set transparent colors, and easily swap out backgrounds and fun effects. It canalso provide some basic video editing tools like trim, crop, rotate, resize,add titles, subtitles, watermarks, and other to make your videos more specialattractive looks. You can also directly upload your edited video and audiofiles to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, DailyMotion, SoundCloud, and other.
Click here to download the Corel VideoStudio Pro on your Windows PC or Laptop.
2. CyberLink PowerDirector 17 Ultra:
CyberLink PowerDirector17 Ultra is one of the best video editing software for home as well as smallbusiness users. This free video editor allows you to edit your recorded,downloaded, existing, or imported video or audio files to make them as stunningoutput looks. Moreover, it can also support to edits a wide range of video andaudio file formats as well as 360˚, Ultra HD 4K or even the latest online mediaformats also. This video editor allows you to edit, correct, and enhance youraction footage easily and quickly. Furthermore, you can customize font, color,motion, blur, and more as well as overlay animated objects on video to addenergy.
CyberLink PowerDirectoralso supports to trim unwanted parts from your video footage, and also cropunwanted edges of your video. At the same time, you can also add titles,subtitles, text, colors, backgrounds, images, watermarks, and other to yourvideos. It can also allow you to merge multiple music tracks to make differentaudio outputs. Moreover, you can also increase or decrease the volume of yourvideos. The best free video editor allows you to import and export video andaudio files from all internal and external storage drives as well as differentsocial sites.
Click here to download CyberLink PowerDirector 17 Ultra on your Windows PC.
3. Abode Premiere Elements 2019:
Adobe Premiere Elements2019 is the professional video editing software currently available on thepresent market. The best video editor supports to edits your favorite video andaudio files to make creative video and audio files. At the same time, this freevideo editor allows you to make slideshows and collages, make your videos looktheir best with intelligent editing options, turn them into stunning creations,organize them effortlessly, and quickly share your memories to your friends andfamily members. This editing tool support to add stylish titles, effects,transitions, and themes as well as creates dynamic video collages with a mix ofyour photos and videos to show many memories in one place.
Adobe Premiere Elementsallows you to add slow and fast-motion effects as well as make part of videoruns forward and backward in a loop. It can also provide basic editing toolslike crop, trim, rotate, resize, rename, add titles, subtitles, watermarks,text, background, and other many special effects and filters to make yourvideos even better looks than previous. Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 supportsto import and export video and audio footage from all storage drives as well asvarious social media sites.
Click here to download the Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 on your desktop computer or Windows-based Laptops.
4. Pinnacle Studio 22:
Pinnacle Studio 22 isthe ultimate video editing software, which edits any of your video and audiofile like recorded, downloaded, imported, or existing files. By using thisvideo editor, you can make your favorite video and audio files into stunningoutput looks like professional ones. Moreover, it can also provide multi-cameravideo editing to edit multiple video footages at a time by splitting thedesktop screen. You can create custom motions with new 3D objects and titlingoptions and engage your audience and enhance your videos with customizable,eye-catching titles and graphics. Furthermore, it offers 360 degrees video editing tools to trim, correctcolors, adds titles, graphics, and edits your 360-degree video easily.
Pinnacle Studio 22 alsosupports to record your screen and webcam simultaneously and create videotutorials. As well as, you can easily capture video, system audio, andmicrophone sound in a single click. You can also adjust video brightness,contrast, and saturation as your needs. Well, you can also fix background, seta transparent color, and easily swap out backgrounds using the Chroma Keyeffect. It supports to merge multiple formats of audio files to make variousoutput sounds like your wish. In addition, upload your video to YouTube,Facebook, Vimeo, and Box directly from Pinnacle Studio.
Click here to download the Pinnacle Studio 22 on your home or small business computers.
5. VideoPad Video Editor:
VideoPad Video Editoris the professional video editing software for Windows, Mac, and Androidoperating systems. The best video editor edits your favorite video and audiofiles to make beautiful output looks. At the same time, it also burn movies toDVD and Blu-ray or export your videos online and to your portable devices. Capturevideo from a DV camcorder, VHS, GoPro, webcam, or all common video fileformats, including AVI, WMV, MPV, DivX and many more. And, you can also applyover 50 visual and transition effects to add a professional touch to yourmovies.
VideoPad Video Editoralso supports to add smooth transitions like cross fade, fade to black orwhite, dissolve, zoom, and more. Moreover, it provide incredible intuitivecontrols let you scroll, zoom, cut, and trim your clips easily and quickly.This free video editor also offers audio transitions and effects like choral,echo, distortion, and more. VideoPad Video Editor uploads videos directly toYouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or Flicker. It is an open source application freeware available on the currentmarket. Besides, VideoPad Video Editor works on all versions of Windowsplatforms like XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 for both the 32-bit as well as64-bit architectures.
Click here to download the VideoPad Video Editor on your Windows PC or other Windows devices.
6. VSDC Free Video Editor:
VSDC Free Video Editoris the ultimate video editing software for your Windows PC or other Windowsdevices. The best video editor edits video files and creating videos of anycomplexity involving various visual and audio effects. Well, the visual effectsare split into five categories for ease of navigations like color correction,object transformation, object filters, transition effects, and special fx.This free video editor allows forcreating different shaped masks for hiding, blurring or highlighting certainelements in your video. Furthermore, It supports to edits a wide range of videoand audio file formats including HD, 4K, UHD, BD, and more.
VSDC Free Video Editorallows you to removes camera shake, blurs, unwanted parts from your videos. Thebest video editor easily allows you to burn the results of your work to opticaldiscs. Whereas, it can also convert your favorite video and audio files fromone format to another easily. As well as, it can also remove unneeded segments,splitting your video into parts, and merge several files into one. The video editoris the ability to capture video from various video tuners, webcams, IP camerasand save the captured footage on your computer. In addition, VSDC Free VideoEditor supports to import and export video and audio files from all internaland external storage drives and popular social sites.
Click here to download the VSDC Free Video Editor on your Windows PC or Laptops.
7. Wondershare Filmora Video Editor:
Read more about Wondershare Filmora Video Editor.
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8. Machete Video Editor:
Read more about Machete Video Editor.
9. Movavi Video Editor:
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10. MAGIX Video Edit Pro:
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Conclusion:
Best Free Video EditingSoftware used to edits your own recorded or downloaded video or audio files tomake them as stunning output looks with your own ideas. It can also support toedits a wide range of video, audio, and image file formats. At the same time,all of the best free video editors provides basic editing tools to makecreative videos. The top best video editors are available on the open marketand work on all versions of Windows platforms.