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Free Video Editing Software PC

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tomtom:
Hello,
Just got a 4k 'action cam' gopro clone thing on an amazon prime day special - and as I usually do all my video stuff on my phone will now need to edit on a PC.. any recommendations - nothing fancy - just enough to add some titles, be able to cut and splice - add some music if need be etc...
thanks,
TT

andy_e:
Some tips herewithin...

Fiend:
BUMP.

I am pondering on upping my video editing game, obviously focusing on more coffee-making scenes, driving to the crag, endless drone footage especially of peaceful quiet areas, rampant stop-start editing in the hope that most of the 10 viewers pass out or throw up, slo-mo shoe-horned in at any possible but pointless opportunity and of course at least 5 minutes of me shoving my face into the camera and blethering shite before 30 seconds of falling off the same move from 8 different angles.

To facilitate this, I'd like some recommendations for free, user-friendly editing software for Windows (hence the linked thread above is mostly useless). I've been using Windows Movie Maker which is fine and nicely ergonomic but limited in some tweaking options.

Specifically I'd like the ability to edit:

Shadow / highlight
Contrast
Saturation
Tone if possible
Different fonts / font sizes on captions (mostly so I can put the grades in fucking massive letters ofc)
1920x1080x60fps output etc

I definitely don't need lots of snazzy effects and transitions, the less of that the better.

Ta in advance.

tomtom:
I've been using Hit Film Express 2017 (later ones probably exist now). Its quite a step up from Windows movie maker - but seems to allow quite a lot of complicated shit to be done. I generally use none of the features and just cut/slice/paste and the odd crop... Seems alright.

Though I try and download most films to the iphone/pad and use iMovie which is great for my needs...

cheque:

--- Quote from: Fiend on September 22, 2019, 03:17:48 pm ---Specifically I'd like the ability to edit:

Shadow / highlight
Contrast
Saturation
Tone if possible

--- End quote ---

Bear in mind that, unlike photos, video is massively compressed on anything but quite fancy cameras (and if you do shoot high-quality video on fancy cameras you very quickly need to start using external storage as the files are huge) so it quickly “falls apart” if you subject it to anything but very moderate tweaking- I imagine free video editing software won’t have extensive features like this partly because the files it’s designed to work on will look like shit as a result.


--- Quote from: Fiend on September 22, 2019, 03:17:48 pm ---I definitely don't need lots of snazzy effects and transitions, the less of that the better.

--- End quote ---

 :agree: Of course it doesn’t matter if the software has these features or not though, you can just not use them.

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