Review of the best free video editors in 2023, including my pick of the top free editor for beginner, intermediate and professional use, as well as the best free editors to run on lower-power hardware. In alphabetical order, the programs compared are Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Flowblade, HitFilm, Kdenlive, Lightworks, Media Composer | First, Olive, OpenShot, Shotcut and VSDC.
Note that I have no relationship with any of the companies or open source projects that publish the above applications.
My full review of DaVinci Resolve 18 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzO2MTKwY0
And I have a series of videos on Blender, starting here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsufneMOvWA
Oh, and the video edited I on a Raspberry Pi 4 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ddj9_LMgU
Links to download the editors covered in this video are as follows:
Blender: https://www.blender.org/
DaVinci Resolve: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com
Flowblade: https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/
HitFilm: https://fxhome.com/product/hitfilm
Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org/
Lightworks: https://www.lwks.com/
Media Composer First: https://my.avid.com/get/media-composer-first
Olive: https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/
OpenShot: https://www.openshot.org/
Shotcut: https://shotcut.org/
VSDC: http://www.videosoftdev.com/
The three additional editors that I looked because they offer a free download, but which require payment for continued use and/or to remove a watermark, were:
Coolcut: https://www.coolcut.tv/
Filmora: https://filmora.wondershare.net/tech-spec.html
Videopad: https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Beginner editors
03:45 Intermediate editors
07:25 Professional editors
10:40 Editors for lower-power hardware
12:50 Wrap
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