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KDENlive vs Shotcut vs Blender

 vs Olive Video Editor vs Open Broadcaster Software vs Davinci Resolve vs Hitfilm Express 2017 vs OpenShot vs Lightworks vs VSDC Free Video Editor vs Pitivi vs Avidemux vs VideoProc Vlogger vs Easy Video Maker vs Clipchamp vs Luxea Video Editor vs ivsEdits LE vs Animaker vs Kapwing vs ApowerEdit vs VLMC (video Lan Movie Creator) vs Solveigmm Video Splitter vs Bandicut vs VirtualDub vs BeeCut vs Davinci Resolve 15 vs MiniTool Partition Wizard vs MiniTool MovieMaker vs CyberLink PowerDirector vs Type Studio vs Minitool Moviemaker vs Windows Movie Maker 2012 vs Piktostory vs Animotica vs TubeNinja vs Adobe Premiere Pro CC

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Windows, Linux, Mac

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Import video formats

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Windows

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Windows, Linux, Mac

Technology

C++, Qt

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Import video formats

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Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD

Technology

C, Python

3D

Yes

2D

Yes (as of 2.8)

Graphics

OpenGL 1.4 (Blender 2.76 and earlier), OpenGl 2.1 (Blender 2.79), OpenGL 3.3 (Blender 2.8+)

Behavior trigger

Event list (global)

Logic model

Pre-built behaviors

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License

GPL-3.0

Supported platforms

Windows linux mac

Computer Specifications

Almost anything

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Windows 7, 8, 8.1 And 10; Mac OS X 10.9 or newer, Linux

Import image formats

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Windows, Linux, Mac

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Import video formats

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Windows, Mac

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Import image formats

MOV

Export video formats

MP4 (AVC/H264 & AAC)

Import audio formats

AVI

Import video formats

"Quicktime

Export audio formats

MPEG-1 (TS

Export image formats

PS

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Windows

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Windows, Linux, Mac

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Import video formats

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Import image formats

DVCPRO HD

Export video formats

Uncompressed SD 8 bit and 10 bit

Import audio formats

DVCPRO 50

Import video formats

"DVCAM / DVCPRO 25

Export audio formats

Uncompressed HD 8 bit and 10 bit

Export image formats

MPEG-2 I-Frame SD

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Windows

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Windows

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Import image formats

BMP, JPEG/JPG, PNG, PSD, GIF, ICO, CUR

Export video formats

AVI, DVD, VCD/SVCD, MPEG, MP4, M4V, MOV, 3GP/3G2, WMV, MKV,RM/RMVB, FLV, SWF, AMV, MTV

Import audio formats

MP3/ MP2, WMA, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, RA, RAM, VOC, WAV, AC3, AIFF, MPA, AU, APE, CUE, CDA, FLAC

Import video formats

AVI, QuickTime (MP4/M4V, 3GP/2G2, MOV, QT), HDVideo/AVCHD (MTS,M2TS, TS, MOD, TOD), Windows Media (WMV, ASF, DVR-MS), DVD/VOB, VCD/SVCD, MPEG/MPG/DAT, Matroska (MKV), Real Media Video (RM, RMVB), Flash Video (SWF, FLV), DV, AMV, MTV, NUT, H.264/MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, MJPEG, H265/HEVC

Export audio formats

MP3, M4A, AAC, OGG, AMR, WAV

Export image formats

BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF

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Import video formats

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Windows, Mac

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Web

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Import image formats

BMP, JPG, TGA, PSD, PNG, TIFF

Export video formats

AVI, MKV, MOV, MPG, WMV

Import audio formats

MP3, WAV

Import video formats

AVI, DPS, MOV, MP4, MPG, MXF, WMV

Export audio formats

WAV

Export image formats

BMP, JPG, TGA

Supported languages

English, Italian

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Windows, Mac

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Import image formats

BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF, HEIC, TIFF

Export video formats

MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV

Import audio formats

AAC, AC3, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP2, WAV

Import video formats

MP4, AVI, 3GP, ASF, MOV, MPEG, TS, MTS, WMV, WEBM etc

Export audio formats

MP3, AAC

Export image formats

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Supported languages

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Windows

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Windows, Linux, Mac

Technology

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Import image formats

"TGA

Export video formats

BMP"

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Pros + Cons

Pro
 Open Source

Kdenlive is licensed under GPLv2, and built on top of other open source projects like FFmpeg.
Comment

Pro
 Works great as an audio editor

Audio is edited in the same way as video, which makes it one of the best audio editors.
Comment

Pro
 Surpisingly complete

Although this editor is not up with the top of the professional pack of editors, it certainly packs a powerful punch, and should provide enough features for amateur montages, ranging from alpha manipulation, to multiple audio and video live track editing.
Comment

Pro
 Its great for learn the basics of video-editing

Comment

Con
 It's laggy and freezes, with some chance of crashing

Comment

Pro
 Subtitles included

Comment

Con
 Timeline cursor is not working

Timeline cursor is not working well on Kubuntu, very difficult to use it. You have to switch all the time between project monitor and clip monitor to get it work.
Comment

Con
 Dose not work well in Windows

They do not support windows well like other distribution. You will face a lot of problems.
Comment

Con
 No hardware acceleration

If you don't have a CPU that's good for video encoding, the render time can be quite bad.
Comment

Con
 Does not have good distribution channel

You have to go to their website to get newest version, does not auto update via package manager.
Comment

Con
 Doesn't support multi frame-rate video editing

When you choose the mixed frame rate option, your video with 60 fps will be broken (slow down and trimmed). (This con might be just misunderstanding of how to do video editing and production from the user who typed in).
Comment

Pro
 Pretty stable

I can count the number of times it crashed on me with my fingers! (Note that some newer features will be less stable.)
Comment

Pro
 Free/opensource based and focused

See the list here.
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Pro
 In active development

It's constantly being developed with new features and bugfixes released periodically.
Comment

Pro
 Much faster than Kdenlive

With Full HD videos larger than 1 hour, Shotcut is much faster than Kdenlive.
Comment

Con
 Heavily developed with occasional crashes on Ubuntu

Never-ending development leads to some crashes, not so stable, but overall it is good enough.
Comment

Con
 Not well-known and tutorial sources are lacking

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Pro
 Proxy editing greatly improves performance

With 360p proxies and preview scaling, older/lower end hardware (like an i3 from 2012) can smoothly edit and render very long 1080p videos, with multiple added effects and filters.
Comment

Pro
 Includes gpu acceleration

Although it is experimental, unstable, and non supported, it is usable, and provides some very welcome speedup in many cases.
Comment

Pro
 Keyframes, 5.1 surround audio export

As of version 18.05 supports keyframes and 5.1 surround audio and mono export as well.
Comment

Pro
 Multiplatform

Works on all three main platforms - Win, Mac, GNU/Linux.
Comment

Con
 They are selling it on Microsoft Store under the name of contribution

Which is a bit nonsense for opensource project. And there's no free option. Only trial.
Comment

Con
 Does not have good visual effect support

Pretty much similar to sony vegas level of visual effect or requires things from outside.
Comment

Pro
 multiplatform

works on all three main platforms - Win, Mac, GNU/Linux
Comment

Con
 Doesn't support keyframing yet

It has become one of an important feature of a video editor, but the developer hasn't added it yet.
Comment

Con
 Does not have good distribution channel

Best place is github/ their website. Because they are selling it from Microsoft Store. It is a bit bothersome getting an updated version.
Comment

Pro
 Very useful for a freelancer

It offers a round solution (it covers many areas and professional fields) for a freelancer, for free, constantly updated, very polished, and allowing high quality results that clients do require. After some learning, it becomes very useful for professional work.
Comment

Pro
 Stable and mostly bug-free

Blender does not crash under heavy loads or upon adding effects unlike other free editors such as Kdenlive or Pitivi.
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Pro
 Powerful animation suite

Blender provides a full rigging system and automates animation by interpolating between keyframe positions.
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Pro
 Free and open source

Blender is licensed under the GPL.
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Pro
 Includes video editing & compositing tools

Blender's node-based compositor has comprehensive video sequencing and post-processing features.
Comment

Pro
 Has a large community

There's a huge community to help you get started immediately.
Comment

Con
 Too many possibilities, no unified workflow

The operations are not optimized enough for specific tasks.
Comment

Pro
 Has a good rendering engine

Blender runs the Cycles path tracing engine under the hood. Cycles is a very powerful rendering engine capable of full path tracing (light fall off, caustics, volumetrics). It is mostly compatible with OpenCL and CUDA rendering and is implementing mycropolygon displacement features.
Comment

Con
 Difficult learning curve

Blender is not a very intuitive 3D modeling software. It has its own ways of doing things, and it is often hard to guess how to achieve simple tasks.
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Pro
 Very versatile

You don't have to switch between software when you want to do different things. Because modeling, sculpting, composting, video editing etc can all be done in blender.
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Pro
 Regular release schedule

Releases are made every ~3 months.
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Pro
 Good distribution channel

You can get newest version from Steam or Microsoft Store. You don't have to visit the website for updates
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Pro
 Wide import and export format support

Support lots of modern 3D formats including DAE and FBX - ideal for game developers.
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Pro
 Keyboard shortcuts

Good keyboard shortcuts for everything. Keep your left hand on the keyboard and your right hand on the mouse.
Comment

Pro
 It has sculpting and 3D painting features

Although blenders 3d painting and sculpting tools (mostly painting) are not at par with specialized software like Substance painter, z brush, or mari; it is more than capable of getting most jobs done if the user takes the time to learn and understand it.
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Pro
 Node based modeling support

Comment

Pro
 Supports both low-poly and hi-poly modeling

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Pro
 Includes a complete game engine

Blender has a complete game engine. It features node based scripting (called Node Editor), Python scripting, dynamic shadows, bullet physics, animated textures and more. Combine it with the ability to model, render bake and texture paint inside the same application and modify the source code because of it being free and open source, Blender becomes an excellent choice for making prototypes and even complete games in considerably low amount of time.
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Pro
 Python extensibility

Blender embeds Python 3, which can be used to write add-ons, tools, extend the interface, rig characters and automate tasks.
Comment

Con
 Poor particle system

The Blender particle system can at times be a little limiting and finicky (and buggy) to get working. Even if it can get most straight forward jobs done, it is far from the most advanced system and could benefit largely from advancements.
Comment

Pro
 Sculpting and 3D painting features

Although Blender's 3d painting and sculpting tools (mostly painting) are not at par with specialized software like Substance Painter, ZBrush, or Mari, it is more than capable of getting most jobs done if the user takes the time to learn and understand it.
Comment

Pro
 Has a powerful rendering engine

Blender runs the Cycles path tracing engine under the hood. Cycles is a very powerful rendering engine capable of full path tracing (light fall off, caustics, volumetrics). It is mostly compatible with OpenCL and CUDA rendering, and is implementing mycropolygon displacement features. The upcoming release has a viewport engine called EEVEE whereby you can see and interact with your work in render mode in real time!
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Con
 Ugly interface

It has a not-so-good interface out-of-the-box. It's hard to see things on it. Sure you can use custom themes, but themes that look good are not always up-to-date. And building your own theme is confusing and time-consuming. It's just my own opinion. If you have got a good theme, you can just ignore this.
Comment

Pro
 Can Export Alpha transparent Channel

"Quicktime Mov" > Codec: "Quicktime Animatio (RLE) Video" > Advanced: "argb" to export a .mov whit alpha channel. You can use this in OBS or for sample Olive.
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 Scale / move elements directly on viewer

This video editor has the ability to move things in the visual space straight in the viewer panel compared to the others where you need to change some value of x or y to scale or move things in your composition. This might not matter much in many cases but if you have a lot of elements moving or scaling throughout your scene, this is the fastest and a much more intuitive method than having to adjust the scale/position values of individual axes separately. This again is a big reason why I prefer an alpha (a damn good alpha) version of this software than a stable release of Kdenlive.
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 Have Effects

Have Chroma Key, and Somentins vídeo effects. You can animate simple works ofr youtube or animated overlays for twich.
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 Simple Automatic Tools

Have automatic, transition tool, record audio on editor, autocut silences.
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 All Parameters are Key

All parameters of effects pannels, are animables, like natron.
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 Blazing fast preview

GPU preview means a lot and I honestly cannot understand how other video editors do not have this as the default choice. Incredibly fast previews tested even on low end machines. This is the sole deal breaker for me when it comes to editing clips.
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 MVK 4 or more Channels

Can work on a .mkv vídeo whith 4 channels of audio, create in OBS.
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 VST Plugin Audio Support

Have VST plugin, this integrate the hability to use powerfull sound edit effects, like, reafir for audio reducction, Plugin free on Reaper software page.
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 Still in alpha / No stable release yet

Not exactly going to be a long term con. The official website clearly states the same, which is why this piece of software should not be used for important projects. Then again it is so damn good that Olive editor is right now my primary editor for most projects. The fact that there is NO stable version of this software does bother a bit as it's ability to handle complex projects is almost unpredictable. But all said and done, it's still not crashed on me even once. Even though an alpha, the best damn alpha release ever.
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 Not good for post-production

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 Free, open source and cross-platform

OBS is licensed under GPLv2 with code available on GitHub. It's available on Windows, OSX and Linux.
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 Has a free version which is only lacking a few features

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 Stellar color correcting

The color correcting tools provided are quite powerful.
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 Clean and modern UI

The interface is clean and modern. Providing a nice smooth experience.
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 Stable and supported

The software is actively developed on, and is incredibly stable.
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 Not open source

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 Presets for other software

If you like the way that Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere Pro function, there are built in templates that change the program layout and functionality to match those pieces of software. Even better, you are prompted weather you want to use these on startup so there is no digging through menus to find this feature.
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 Good

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 Requires registration to download

You need to register before downloading.
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 Provides Linux binaries

One of the few industry-grade software that has official linux binaries.
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 Lacks features

It functions flawlessly as a basic editor, but when you try to get into anything beyond titles, fades, and basic animations, you will likely find the toolset lacking.
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 It can take a bit of time to get used to

Because it is traditionally a color correcting software, getting to the actual editing toolset is a tiny bit difficult.
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 Steep learning curve

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 Good

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 Unbeatable for cc'ing and grading

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 Not traditionally an editing software

While the built-in editor is great, the software is mostly focused on color correction.
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 Combines editing and VFX tools in one package

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 Lots of beginner-friendly tutorials

HitFilm's YouTube page.
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 Powerful presets & visual effects 

Color grading, motion blur, lights, flares, 3D muzzle flashes, procedural fire, etc. They both work out of the box and can be heavily customized. More than 150 visual effects and more are added constantly.
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 Offers 4K input and output

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 Free version lacks some of the major selling points of the software

Express lacks physics-driven particle simulation, the ability to import and animate 3D models, some of the more powerful plugins (such as professional denoiser and chroma key), OpenEXR export, 64-bit and GPU acceleration and OpenFX plugin support.
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 YouTube direct upload

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 Beginner friendly

Amazing all-in-one starter software thanks to a lot of powerful presets and a simplified workflow. There are tips, guides, explanations and easy access to community support. The interface is intuitive and easy to overview.
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 Download requires social media sharing

When you choose download, they need you to share to facebook, twitter, or google+.
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 Requires an account to download and use

You need to register an account to use the software.
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 In active development

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 Easy to learn

By using a clean interface that is uncluttered and simple to understand the program allows for intuitiveness that is not always seen in other video editors.
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 Unstable

Crashes enough to make you feel like searching for another editor.
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 Unintuitive

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 Hollywood approved

Lightworks has been used to edit movies such as Wolf of Wall Street, 28 Days Later, Pulp Fiction, The King's Speech and many, many others.
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 Free version is limited to 720p output

Whereas the full version can export to a wide variety of formats and resolutions, Lightworks can only export H.264 / MPEG-4 up to 720p.
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 Highly polished editing workflow

Lightworks is very focused on just the editing workflow. It's full of functionality that eases the workflow. For example, media manager can be used to storyboard, "mark and park" can be used in timelines, cut points can be adjusted in 3 ways (end point of a clip without adjusting the start point of a clip that comes before it, start point of a clip without adjusting the endpoint of a clip that comes after it or start and end points of 2 joined clips at the same time) without shortcuts, just intuitively placed mouse hover points around the cut point. Such attention to detail is what makes it an efficient tool for editing.
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 Doesn't support multi-frame rate videos

Unlike the other video editor, this one doesn't support multi-frame rate video.
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 Smooth playback

VSDC Free Video Editor exceeds the standard array of functions required for modest editing goals. Faced with a long video conversion: a 7:30 minute video (a part of which was accelerated at 800%) was exported in 20 minutes.
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 Feature rich for a free app

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 Good format support

Most major video and audio formats are supported.
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 Suprisingly wide choice of video effects and transitions

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 Good quality export

The only free editor which enables a Full HD export.
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 Interface is not as straightforward as it could be

VSDC exposes a lot of information. And a good amount of that information is non-essential. That results in a slightly cluttered interface that can get in the way of actually editing the material. Similarly, some workflow conventions are dated. For example, cutting a clip needs a separate interface. All of that combined ends in having to learn a lot more about the software before it can be used.
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 GTK based

Being GTK based, it does not require extra dependencies on gnome and other desktop environments using the GTK Toolkit.
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 Free and open source

Pitivi uses CreativeCommons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with source code available on Gnome's source code page.
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 Uses Gstreamer instead of ffmpeg

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 Fast, light, best option if you only need some light editing like cutting the video

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 Can't edit multiple clips together

Only clip by clip editor.
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 Easy

Easy to start using it. There are many tutorials on their YouTube channel.
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 No watermark

A completely free video editing software that does not have a watermark.
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 Lightweight

For a video editor it is lightweight, minimum software requirements: 2GHz Intel or AMD processor minimum of 1GB RAM 600MB of empty hard-disk space
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 Good for beginners

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 Free version

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 Beginner friendly

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 Easy to use

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 ChromaKey

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 Advertising in free version

A short intro and outro advertising is added to videos.
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 Affordable

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 Windows only

Although it supports all versions of Windows, Mac and Linux users will have find another video editor, since ivsEdits is not cross platform.
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 Free features that competitors lock behind paywalls

ivsEdits is frame accurate and has audio feedback on Timeline scrub. These are basic features that several free competitors miss.
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 Functionally competitive with other video editors

The layout is impressive, and that impression sticks throughout, especially when it comes to multiple live camera inputs.
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 Limited free version

The free version is limited (compared to the full version) in what formats it can export, as well as supported capture formats and bundled apps. This is to be expected though as the pro version is a professional geared app that costs €800.
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 The UI is very easy and intuitive

It is very easy to add effects and transitions.
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 A great free option

One of the better free options for editing video.
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 May be dead for good

(This Con no longer has any valid support and has been disproven by an updated history on the ivsEdits home page http://www.ivsedits.com/default/downloads.aspx) Last update was in December 2014 and there are no signs that there is any planned future development.
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 I like it. congratulations!

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 No watermarks

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 The tool has many kinds of video editing functions

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 It provides a very simple user interface to navigate

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 It supports editing video via Timeline

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 It doesn't support the advanced movie editing features

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 Unstable

Although usable, this beta is still pretty unstable.
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 Cross Platform

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 Massive amount of great features

Intuitive interface. Free trial version. Lossless video editing - 99.9% editing accuracy. Deleting unwanted video clips in a couple of clicks. Fast video slicer and trimmer. Ability to work under Citrix XenApp 6.5. Edit built-in and external subtitles for MP4, MKV, WEBM, AVI, TS formats.
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 No setup installer

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 Doesn't handle MP4s

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 lightweight and easy-to-use

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 Free download

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 Cross platform

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 watermark for unpaid users

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 Totally free

This software is totally free, without any ads or paywalls.
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 100% free of charge

It is great and completely free of charge now.
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 No water mark.

MiniTool MovieMaker is completely free of charge and with no watermark in the final videos, nothing stands in the way of looking for its counterparts that have already been created and still appear in some top brands of its type.
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 Intuitive userface, completely free of charge at this time.

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 Only for Microsoft Windows now.

It is only working with Windows now, but not Mac or Linux. Maybe in the near future.
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 Different languages available

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 Easy-to-use UI

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 The interface is clean and modern. Providing a nice smooth experience.

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 The interface is clean and modern. Providing a nice smooth experience.

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 Discontinued

Product is discontinued.
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 No watermarks

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 Available in over 60+ languages

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 Resize into multiple video dimensions

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 Auto captions

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 Easy to download videos from all social media applications and web pages

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 Easy to Use

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