That may be due to rather old video codecs i used in magix that time - but results came out better and quicker in SC. SC really performed much better on this kind of job and also produced better video results. I was used to magix video (de luxe) which could handle the job but quite cumbersome and slow. a really nice application, and in the meanwhile can generate complete videos in the cloud) - some with more than 10k images up to 4k each. I had created some huge image sequences from google earth studio (which is btw. But of course you will not be able to determine how useful the community is which is very important as well, in my opinion at least.That was exactly my setup where i came to SC. If you are not able to decide, you could try some simple projects and judge how easy, fast etc. I do not like installing programs so I only use this. If you use Windows, you can try the portable version. It will for sure take longer to render and might lag for high resolution files (like 4K). Running it should be fine but this can differ from laptop to laptop. Pan and zoom is also available as presets or by using keyframes which gives full control. With an HTML overlay you can apply most effects used on web pages so there is a plethora of options but this is advanced. You can use keyframes to vary the size and the position to achieve various effects. With just reading the release notes one can deduce that (I am using it for approximately three months so I cannot speak from experience).Ī text filter for simple effects is available. Shotcut is for sure not the same anymore. Meanwhile, I’ll be digesting all your helpful suggestions and so appreciate you sharing them.įew years is really too long for any substantial statement. Which of the 3 categories I mentioned would you say ShotCut would fit best? Easy - Intermediate - Advanced and why do you think it fits in that category? In my limited experience it would seem VideoPad might be considered for the easier to learn and Ligthworks in the more for advanced users. I’m trying to get a feel for which video editing software would be categorized as easier to learn which would be considered for intermediate video editing and which would be for advanced. I mention VideoPad as that seems (although I haven’t used it) like a step up from Windows Movie Maker but much easier to learn (for novices) than Lightworks (which seems wonderful but not necessarily the easiest for novices and/or amateurs). If so, which features did you find lacking in VideoPad? You all seem very accomplished (I’m sure through hard work and trial and error) so I very much appreciate your help and understanding of us who are still stumbling along in video editing.ĭid any of you try VideoPad first and then decide it didn’t have the correct features you needed? I’ve spent years downloading and testing video editing software only to find it doesn’t do what it’s designed (or marketed ) to do (nor as easy to learn). Thank you so much for sharing your informed and experienced replies. Hi Austin and all you other good, generous and talented posters. Shotcut is excellent for simple video (and even complex video if it’s narrative style) and probably ideal as a teaching tool because you won’t have licensing issues and it is very lenient about input video formats thanks to ffmpeg. (You can achieve that if you put the photos on a timeline yourself, but there isn’t a wizard that can change timings and transitions with a few simple clicks.) In particular, Shotcut isn’t designed to make a slideshow of photos with a standardized transition between each photo. There are no ready-made templates built-in. However, if you’re looking for a tool that has lots of “end-user templates” in it for animated text, built-in Happy Birthday logos, lots of gimmicky transitions, and an easy way to make lots of clip art fly across the screen almost like a cartoon… Shotcut could technically do those things with the keyframe features, but you’d have to manually make everything move yourself. The available tools are far ahead of Windows Movie Maker. Aside from that, Shotcut is essentially feature-complete. All of these can be approximated by other tools, like color grading wheels and LUTs for color adjustments, and simple track stacking on the timeline for multi-cam. Welcome! A number of people gave their reasons for using Shotcut in a similar post from some time ago: Why do you use Shotcut? Those posts could give you a broader sense of how other people feel about it.Īs to your specific question of what editing features you would be missing by using Shotcut, the answer depends on what you’re trying to do.įor narrative filmmaking (movie and documentary style stuff), the main tools you’d miss are color curves, hue-vs-hue filter, and true multi-cam editing.
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