I wouldn't recommend Filmora anymore, they decided to charge users with lifetime licenses for the latest release. Back with version 7, I purchased a lifetime license. Just recently I realized I had to pay again to use version 12. They snuck new terms into version 9 and made different definitions for free lifetime "updates" and "upgrades. I will never do business with them again unless they make things right with their customers.
For me, Resolve is the no1, even among the paid video editors. The free version has way more features than any other video editors you've mentioned in the list. I've tried all of them, in the video you seem to be using Resolve 15, the current version 18 has enormous improvements and feature sets in it.
Team DaVinci for years now. I used the free version until I learned the ropes of it and then I got the free version which also allowed me to leverage my GPU which helps dramatically.
my experience with Filmora was like that.. they had a great interface, but man! the ads... are super annoying. I thought even if I pay, the ads will get worse.. so I was like screw it. got Davinci Resolve. but... the amount of issues I went with this piece was nuts. even opening it's slow. yeah I paid for the studio, had to go on a lot of Tutorials to just make it work. my laptop is an Asus rog g15 with 16gb ram 1tb up to 2, and RTX 3070 (studio drivers) when I install the right drivers it got better. but... Kdenilve is very light and handles 4K I love that! for my audio videos :)
@@TJFREE I watched your video, and I've had D Resolve 16 on my W 10 system for years, and thought that maybe that later versions started using watermarks, because my version has always been completely clean... I'm no "pro" by any stretch, so I don't even know what "pro features' he's talking about, but I've been able to use my version to do everything I need... I'm sure that professionals have other needs but I've been able to do everything that I can imagine without watermarks... I'm glad I saw this comment, and your response though, 'cause I may need to install another version of Resolve, as I'm looking @ a new system... Thanks for the vid, and thanks for this particular info on the watermarks!!!
It'd be cool to have a tutorial on Blender's Grease Pencil that you can then complement with its video editor. The idea behind the series could be the creation of ads for social networks (like animated posts or stories for Instagram for instance) or the web. I've looked for this kind of tutorial for so long and it's surprising no one is tackling this. 99% of them is all 3D oriented or animated-illustration oriented.
Great review, but I don't know where you got that Davinci Resolve watermarks the videos in the free version. Yes, they do Watermark certain premium effects and transitions (which you'll clearly be alerted about in the editor before you render), but they do not watermark the final video if you steer clear from those premium features. So just to be fair, I want to clear that up, not sure how you got that twisted.
great video. i use only kdenlive for the past 5 years for my channel. even though the titling is very limited. i have one question. you always encourage the use of Foss, but why are you using windows? why not linux?
Awesome, I have lots of love for Kdenlive. I am only running Linux on my personal and studio computers, currently Mint and PopOS. Half of these video editors only run on Windows, so I used it for this video to make a more fair comparison.
I have used the free version of DaVinci resolve for the last two years. Some of the advanced features don't work on the free version but it is still amazingly versatile, powerful and intuitive. It does NOT (and I repeat NOT) watermark rendered files. It does need a fairly powerful computer especially if you are using the Fusion module for motion graphics. My system has a Ryzen 7 CPU, 30 GB of RAM and a 4GB graphics card. Ideally the graphics card should be larger.
I had issues with Linux based Resolve, Win 11 threw a glitch when upgraded from 10, now fixed it works quite well on Windows! I keep resorting to Kdenlive as more user friendly!
@@Tech_with_Loco For basic editing I find DaVinci really simple and intuitive. I much prefer the edit page and avoid the cut page. My colour grading and sound design are fairly basic so it doesn't raise any issues for me. When it comes to motion graphics, fusion does have quite a learning curve so I'm still learning but I have produced some useful assets there that I incorporate into my work.
@@jennifergow6524 I mess with Resolve a couple of times a week, file size (@ H264) on Resolve is bigger than Kdenlive, same exact video? I like Resolve, but I'm way more comfortable with Kdenlive, always learning.
Hi, I too am an open source advocate, for about 3 decades now, and I too use kdenlive, shotcut, and openshot. I also use ffmpeg a LOT. I havent found a good gui for it, but its way way better in many ways. I can merge (concatinate) video files without re-encoding, so that goes about as fast as copying the file, and there is NO change in quality, its exactly the same as the original clips. It also does time lapse, and cutting video very fast with no changes in quality. I have also been using flowblade recently and I might like it too.
I just found your channel, and it's pure gold! Can't believe how much time and effort you've put in all these years to create such a good learning space. You're freaking amazing!!
I've learned Olive by your tutorials in 2020 and use it since. Now that 0.2 is much more usable, I try to switch to it but have some growing pains still. I've made one video using a combination of Shotcut and Openshot because Shotcut alone is unusable (can't persuade it to stop fitting images to the screen and there is a lot of this "I know what users need!" behaviour). Openshot is much, much better but it doesn't realize that not all text is cinematic titles. Kdenlive still terrifies me every time I open it, so, so many things on the screen at the same time.
Dude how you have grown, I've been following you for a long time but I didn't get involved for a while because I wasn't doing anything related to design. Now that I got to see this video I see that you passed 200k, incredible, when I followed you, about a year and a half ago, you had about 30k or less.
I found blender the most serious software between them. Davinci resolve is very professional and intuitive, but it is very bad in importing most video formats. Kdenlive is feature-full but it is very clunky and not very stable.
Well, I'm a resolve type of guy. I've tried the top two and a few others. But, from what I could remember kdenlive wasn't as stable and shotcut wasn't as feature packed. Maybe worth a revisit though as resolve is getting to use more CPU being free, where paid will use more GPU.
Vsdc is the best. I have been using at for quite a while. I think you had not given it a proper try. It is surely is much better from shotcut and some other you have mentioned it is featured rich you can custom animate objects and much more. :)
I started tinkering with Shotcut and Openshot in 2019. Openshot was such a steaming pile of crap that I abandoned it. Shotcut was also extremely buggy but I stuck with it and they've vastly improved it over time, though it can still be temperamentally buggy some days. On the whole it does the job, and is friendly enough that I can't be bothered to go learn something else. Do wish it had more animations/transitions/text functionality. A lot of my feature desires are in their published road map, so I know it's on the way. My beef with Resolve is that they don't remove the limited features from the free version. Restrict some features, sure, but leaving the buttons there so I have to constantly tip-toe around what is usable and what will throw dialogues at me is too annoying to be productive. I gave up on it. I installed Kdenlive a few weeks ago but haven't bothered to learn it. It looks similar to Shotcut to some extent though so maybe one day I'll sit down and figure it out. Until then, Shotcut it is. Excellent video.
There are NO watermarks with Davinci Resolve! There are advanced features in the Studio version but even the FREE version is basically a PRO app for sure.
Not free or open source but my sister has been using clip studio paint for making for first comic. And I use it for more complicated photoshoping. That i can't do in Gimp.
Kdenlive - when you save a project does that project just link to the original file location or is there a way to save the project source files? In other words are those source files included in the project save?
I am a windows user. I chose a video editor for a long time and found it - Shotcut. Unfortunately, kdenlive on windows is not stable and is over-saturated with effects that are often repetitive.
My laptop can't handle Davinci resolve so I went crazy to find a good editing software and luckily as I was trying to find it I saw "TJ FREE" and I was like let's go now I don't need to worry now Bro you are always helpful thanks
i used avs4you for years, but it does crash now and then and it cant run on my laptop. i tried davinci resolve, it was enjoable to say the least, but it crashed many times, and it also can not run on my laptop. I did try shotcut on both my pc and laptop, and it runs pretty smoooth on both and has not crhased a single time so far (had it for weeks) It has less featuers but resolve is honestly overkill unless youre making high quality content
something's clearly wrong with your machine if VSDC output is as you said in the video: glitchy, blinky etc. I'm using it on low-mid range laptop with 8GB RAM and onboard video...works fine no glitch no blinky blinky. As for the user interface, yeah it's a bit cluttered compared to others but the layout is fully customizable. I actually prefer the original classic layout coz it resembles the layout in Godot, Unity and Roblox Studio (those are game engines). If you gonna make update video on this one, please redo the VSDC test coz the glitchy blinky you experienced are not normal. Tips: VSDC often does giveaways on the Pro version which means full GPU support along with other premium features.
Till now the best oprn source videos editing software os da Vinci resolve, very well made, professional, good UI, very powerful, can do all things. However it's GPU intensive sometimes.
Thank you for the review. I've been using Kdenlive for my utterly basic video editing needs. Kdenlive is great but whenever I need help and find a YT video for my issue the solution it shows does not apply for my version of the sw. Will give Shotcut a try.
I absolutely love Davinci Resolve but it's so damn resource intensive so I've been looking for a different editor. Thanks for this bro. I'm looking to try out KdenLive
Really want to thank you for this video and information. As someone who's interesting in learning more about editing video and getting free, user-friendly software, this was VERY VERY helpful!!!
I found Kdenlive very buggy (both my Linux distro's version and the more recent binary from the website). The worst bug for me is the smooth animated keyframes reverting to linear after save-close-reload. The other very annoying one is the rotoscoping mask often being displayed in the wrong place when zoomed in. It's also unusably slow when I have four or more layers, like e.g. when I want to create a simple animation from a handful of modest size images on top of the video or even just on a plain colour background (png images with transparency). I don't understand why people like this video editor so much. Maybe there is something wrong with my setup but I tried it on two very different systems and the same problems arise on both.
Is not buggy when I use Kdenlive. I am sticking with Kdenlive because is free,full version does it job. Also kdenlive has the ability of applying LUTS out of the box. Not like DaVinci Resolve the free version doesn't allow Luts without paying.
Thank you. I'd be curious to know you opinion about a few more video editors (some if not all of them may not be cross-platform) such as pitivi, olive, lives, flowblade, cinelerra and even 'blind' CLI video editor.
I like Flowblade and Olive, but didn't include them since Olive still needs a lot of development, and Flowblade is Linux only. I actually chose these 10 programs based how often they were mentioned in comments of my previous RUclips videos. People were like, 'what about Filmora??' so I included them to show how they compared. I have explored Cinelerra, Pitivi, and Lives, but have not been impressed with them.
I am starting to learn kdenlive (thanks to your tutorials 🙂, I am not into video editing etc. ). However, was wondering if it will be possible to do a refresh on your kdenlive tutorial playlist 🙂 - seems like a lot has changed since then, including the interface.
You are doing the amazing job , A spreadsheet for camparing the video editors ,Really!! But this video clears my all doubts regard this topic , keep hardworking ,you will surely achieve success one day ❤️👍👍
watermark on the exports is a deal breaker to me. This is why I consider videopad much better, because it doesn't have that problem. Just kidding I'll stick to kdenlive until there is a competitive opensource alternative.
(Windows) Shotcut has loads of bugs unfortunately (the Linux version is slightly better). The more you use it the more frustrating it gets. It's a shame because I like the layout and most things about it. Close, but no cigar.
I made a video to complement an original song but the song audio has too much reverb. I can reduce the echo on the audio but How do I reduce it while keeping it attached to the video itself. Thanks, Warren
[Macro] I've been using the free ver. of LightWorks on and off again for 5 years, and constantly for nearly 2 years. I recommend it for newbies that want to mess around with making videos; for it's ease of use. I've been able to push lightworks pretty far by using it and GIMP to get around the limits of the free ver. The keying features is pretty good. And I've used it for making pseudo animations. But I have been moving to using DaVinci Resolve now for it more robust features. There was a learning curve for me going from one to another. But I'm looking for what I'l be able to do with it. [Micro] When making the pseudo animations for my project. I have to have make them in a separate project. Then export it, so I can add them to my main project. Because it keeps lightworks to run smoother. I do have to fight lightworks sometimes when there is lage amount of keying being done. Some of it was my inexperience, but now a lot of it is lightworks crapping out on me. (I don't have any of them uploaded yet. So I can't show what can be done with the higher end keying in lightworks) [Tech] I have used a laptop to edit. It took me longer to start trying DaVinci Resolve because my old laptop could not run it. I would start the program and my computer would shut off. When my laptop died at the end of last year. I bought a higher end laptop. And DaVinci Resolve has no problem running now.
question... maybe that matters more for me, coz I work with music, but the audio bar on the right side from Kdenlive supposed to freeze when I stop the video? like you see the sound spectrum, but it doesn't go down. Davinci doesn't have that, but I wonder... is there an option to change in the setting? I have the last version of Kdenlive
Kudos! You did a great job comparing all these. But can you please make a short video describing in your experience the best multiplatform (and preferably GPL license) programs for making titles. I liked how your Shotcut titles look. Good looking animated titles are extremely important. As for me, just few days ago I switched to Kdenlive. Took me max 4 days to learn it. You did great tutorials, great presentation skills. The reason kdenlive have no presets shocks at first, but now I know why - the program is soo simple and intuitive, that it need no presets. I personally (I am the average RUclipsr) started with Windows Movie Maker in 2008 and used it for 2 years. In around 2011 switched to Magix Movie Edit Pro (commercial product, but back then I disliked the free products and it was better than Windows Movie Maker). Used it for almost 11 years (upgraded 2-3 times). Not perfect but did what I needed. Around 2018-2019 learned Davinci Resolve, but it was too heavy and complicated (and Blender looks so too), so I stayed on Movie Edit Pro. By accident learned about kdenlive and it works lightning fast, compared to what I have experience with, so I am switching to it. Only thing which I really need are good animated titles. Movie Edit Pro have some animated half-vector half-raster graphic presets, which so far do what I need, but I want to ditch it completely. So, I need something not much complicated than kdenlive for vector animated titles. And I wonder what software do they use to make these lyrics music videos where lyric words line up on the page coming from all directions, sorta like playing Tetris. But in my personal opinion, kdenlive suits what most RUclipsrs and home video enthusiasts need. Most people get pirate copies of Adobe Premiere, but why, when you have a free and much lighter product, which also is multiplatform...
Titles, subtites and the "Transform" effect are TOP three Kdenlive features. Transitions are next! Once learned it's great, my favorite editor on Linux and Windows.
Could be your graphics card or drivers that are outdated , update your drivers or try an earlier version of blender , at the moment I'm running version 3 of blender on one computer and version 2.6 on my much older computor
@@StephenSE9 No, you don't necessarily have to upload do vimeo, neither download from it. You just have to link to a vimeo account and the option to export to 1080p just becomes available. It will in fact try to upload to vimeo automatically right after rendering, but you can just kill the process while it is uploading and the video file will be in your default rendering directory. You could also temporarily turn off network to prevent a the upload.
Thanks for the info. I'm currently using PowerDirector 15. The reasons I haven't upgraded to a newer version were partly financial, but also because PowerDirector nowadays REALLY makes you jump through hoops unless you get their subscription plan - which I FLAT OUT REFUSE to do. So one of the better ones of these might be what I am looking for.
My exact experience! My first RUclipss (first 7) , were created using Cyberlink PD 15. Started using Kdenlive when I added Linox OS to my system. Most of my videos since 2014 have been about using Kdenlive, which is GREAT for me! My RUclipss are just for fun.
This hasn't been my experience, and I feel like I have tested it on a variety of machines over many years. I will say I have never tried Kdenlive on Mac, and also not very much on Windows... It could be that certain work flows are more prone to triggering crashes. I have also helped a lot of people to get started using Kdenlive, and it has always seemed stable to me.
@@TJFREE Maybe it depends on hardware? Because The Linux Experiment complained about kdenlive stability, DistroTube made a whole video why he hate kdenlive for glitches a bugs, TechHut made a video why he switched to davinci from kdenlive So this is not an individual case, this a systematic problem. And these guys definitely used Linux as their system
It could be hardware, or I also think certain workflows could be to blame. I think the negative thoughts about Kdenlive by the RUclipsrs you mentioned have changed by now. They all seem to be currently using, recommending, speaking highly of Kdenlive.
@@TJFREE You are trying to promote the free apps, but the truth is that kdenlive, and ALL other apps seen here, are unstable. Heck even Resolve is a bit unstable. Video editing is not easy to program, it's among the most difficult of all kinds of apps because there are too many moving parts. Part of the reason why all these open source apps are unstable is because they rely on ffmpeg or mlt framework and many other third party libraries. Too many bugs on these libs are making the editors buggy as well. But overall, Resolve runs circles around any of the suggested apps, and it's more stable because it has implemented and tested everything in house. And the watermark is not a watermark, it's simply a reminder that some features are Studio only. You are not supposed to use these features unless you upgrade your app to Studio. They are there only for preview reasons, to quickly see what they do, to make you decide to buy Studio or not. But the Free version is more than capable on its own. Certainly more than Kdenlive.
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I wouldn't recommend Filmora anymore, they decided to charge users with lifetime licenses for the latest release. Back with version 7, I purchased a lifetime license. Just recently I realized I had to pay again to use version 12. They snuck new terms into version 9 and made different definitions for free lifetime "updates" and "upgrades. I will never do business with them again unless they make things right with their customers.
Thanks for the post, TJ ! Kdenlive is the best for me.
For me, Resolve is the no1, even among the paid video editors. The free version has way more features than any other video editors you've mentioned in the list. I've tried all of them, in the video you seem to be using Resolve 15, the current version 18 has enormous improvements and feature sets in it.
I am also using DaVinci. The newest Capcut is also amazing.
Team DaVinci for years now. I used the free version until I learned the ropes of it and then I got the free version which also allowed me to leverage my GPU which helps dramatically.
my experience with Filmora was like that.. they had a great interface, but man! the ads... are super annoying. I thought even if I pay, the ads will get worse.. so I was like screw it. got Davinci Resolve. but... the amount of issues I went with this piece was nuts. even opening it's slow. yeah I paid for the studio, had to go on a lot of Tutorials to just make it work. my laptop is an Asus rog g15 with 16gb ram 1tb up to 2, and RTX 3070 (studio drivers) when I install the right drivers it got better. but... Kdenilve is very light and handles 4K I love that! for my audio videos :)
I think Resolve only adds watermarks if you use the pro features in your edit.
Yes, this is true.
@@TJFREE I watched your video, and I've had D Resolve 16 on my W 10 system for years, and thought that maybe that later versions started using watermarks, because my version has always been completely clean... I'm no "pro" by any stretch, so I don't even know what "pro features' he's talking about, but I've been able to use my version to do everything I need... I'm sure that professionals have other needs but I've been able to do everything that I can imagine without watermarks... I'm glad I saw this comment, and your response though, 'cause I may need to install another version of Resolve, as I'm looking @ a new system... Thanks for the vid, and thanks for this particular info on the watermarks!!!
It'd be cool to have a tutorial on Blender's Grease Pencil that you can then complement with its video editor. The idea behind the series could be the creation of ads for social networks (like animated posts or stories for Instagram for instance) or the web. I've looked for this kind of tutorial for so long and it's surprising no one is tackling this. 99% of them is all 3D oriented or animated-illustration oriented.
Great review, but I don't know where you got that Davinci Resolve watermarks the videos in the free version. Yes, they do Watermark certain premium effects and transitions (which you'll clearly be alerted about in the editor before you render), but they do not watermark the final video if you steer clear from those premium features. So just to be fair, I want to clear that up, not sure how you got that twisted.
great video. i use only kdenlive for the past 5 years for my channel. even though the titling is very limited. i have one question. you always encourage the use of Foss, but why are you using windows? why not linux?
Awesome, I have lots of love for Kdenlive. I am only running Linux on my personal and studio computers, currently Mint and PopOS. Half of these video editors only run on Windows, so I used it for this video to make a more fair comparison.
@@TJFREE nice. Im also using linux only for my works and studio works. currently endeavor os.
between shortcut and kndelive whichone renders faster and utilizes less resources on windows?
I have used the free version of DaVinci resolve for the last two years. Some of the advanced features don't work on the free version but it is still amazingly versatile, powerful and intuitive. It does NOT (and I repeat NOT) watermark rendered files. It does need a fairly powerful computer especially if you are using the Fusion module for motion graphics. My system has a Ryzen 7 CPU, 30 GB of RAM and a 4GB graphics card. Ideally the graphics card should be larger.
I had issues with Linux based Resolve, Win 11 threw a glitch when upgraded from 10, now fixed it works quite well on Windows! I keep resorting to Kdenlive as more user friendly!
@@Tech_with_Loco For basic editing I find DaVinci really simple and intuitive. I much prefer the edit page and avoid the cut page. My colour grading and sound design are fairly basic so it doesn't raise any issues for me. When it comes to motion graphics, fusion does have quite a learning curve so I'm still learning but I have produced some useful assets there that I incorporate into my work.
@@jennifergow6524 I mess with Resolve a couple of times a week, file size (@ H264) on Resolve is bigger than Kdenlive, same exact video? I like Resolve, but I'm way more comfortable with Kdenlive, always learning.
Hi, I too am an open source advocate, for about 3 decades now, and I too use kdenlive, shotcut, and openshot. I also use ffmpeg a LOT. I havent found a good gui for it, but its way way better in many ways. I can merge (concatinate) video files without re-encoding, so that goes about as fast as copying the file, and there is NO change in quality, its exactly the same as the original clips. It also does time lapse, and cutting video very fast with no changes in quality. I have also been using flowblade recently and I might like it too.
I just found your channel, and it's pure gold! Can't believe how much time and effort you've put in all these years to create such a good learning space. You're freaking amazing!!
I've learned Olive by your tutorials in 2020 and use it since. Now that 0.2 is much more usable, I try to switch to it but have some growing pains still.
I've made one video using a combination of Shotcut and Openshot because Shotcut alone is unusable (can't persuade it to stop fitting images to the screen and there is a lot of this "I know what users need!" behaviour). Openshot is much, much better but it doesn't realize that not all text is cinematic titles.
Kdenlive still terrifies me every time I open it, so, so many things on the screen at the same time.
Thank you. I WILL download the spreadsheet.
Thanks for quickly outlining the features in your video!
Dude how you have grown, I've been following you for a long time but I didn't get involved for a while because I wasn't doing anything related to design. Now that I got to see this video I see that you passed 200k, incredible, when I followed you, about a year and a half ago, you had about 30k or less.
Olive Video Editor (Release build 0.1.0 appimage) with the Community Effects Pack are my weapons of choice.
weapons? 💀👿🔥🔫
Loads of people are using the free version of Power Director too... It watermarks but works well... I like Shotcut♥️♥️♥️
I found blender the most serious software between them. Davinci resolve is very professional and intuitive, but it is very bad in importing most video formats. Kdenlive is feature-full but it is very clunky and not very stable.
Well, I'm a resolve type of guy. I've tried the top two and a few others. But, from what I could remember kdenlive wasn't as stable and shotcut wasn't as feature packed. Maybe worth a revisit though as resolve is getting to use more CPU being free, where paid will use more GPU.
Great video and list of video editors :) i use Shotcut and its powerful enough for me. Please make more videos like this!
Shotcut is a great video editor, been using it 8yrs and going
Vsdc is the best. I have been using at for quite a while. I think you had not given it a proper try. It is surely is much better from shotcut and some other you have mentioned it is featured rich you can custom animate objects and much more. :)
I started tinkering with Shotcut and Openshot in 2019. Openshot was such a steaming pile of crap that I abandoned it. Shotcut was also extremely buggy but I stuck with it and they've vastly improved it over time, though it can still be temperamentally buggy some days. On the whole it does the job, and is friendly enough that I can't be bothered to go learn something else. Do wish it had more animations/transitions/text functionality. A lot of my feature desires are in their published road map, so I know it's on the way.
My beef with Resolve is that they don't remove the limited features from the free version. Restrict some features, sure, but leaving the buttons there so I have to constantly tip-toe around what is usable and what will throw dialogues at me is too annoying to be productive. I gave up on it.
I installed Kdenlive a few weeks ago but haven't bothered to learn it. It looks similar to Shotcut to some extent though so maybe one day I'll sit down and figure it out. Until then, Shotcut it is. Excellent video.
There are NO watermarks with Davinci Resolve! There are advanced features in the Studio version but even the FREE version is basically a PRO app for sure.
Nicely Explained....... please make a video on open source programs for designing Comic Books
Thanks! I'll see what I can do for Comic Book specific tutorials... Off the top of my head Inkscape and Krita come to mind as good choices.
@@TJFREE yea krita is a good one
Not free or open source but my sister has been using clip studio paint for making for first comic. And I use it for more complicated photoshoping. That i can't do in Gimp.
Great comparison. Thank you for your work!
Kdenlive - when you save a project does that project just link to the original file location or is there a way to save the project source files? In other words are those source files included in the project save?
A while ago you did a nice video on Olive, another open source editor. Any reason you didn't include it in this lineup?
Probably because it's still in an alpha stage and isn't intended for serious usage at this moment
But it's surprisingly better than some of the options here though even in its alpha stage
I am a windows user. I chose a video editor for a long time and found it - Shotcut. Unfortunately, kdenlive on windows is not stable and is over-saturated with effects that are often repetitive.
Shotcut for me all day, 8yrs and going
0:17 Nicely done, but I have to put Shotcut first. Kdenlive is not hardware acceleration friendly to Windows Intel users.
My laptop can't handle Davinci resolve so I went crazy to find a good editing software and luckily as I was trying to find it I saw "TJ FREE" and I was like let's go now I don't need to worry now Bro you are always helpful thanks
lol ive been using vsdc for a few months now and yeah it is terrible, will be trying out your recommended stuff soon ^.^
I wish I had the brains to use other editors. The old Movie Maker is the only one I can use to know what to do!.
i used avs4you for years, but it does crash now and then and it cant run on my laptop. i tried davinci resolve, it was enjoable to say the least, but it crashed many times, and it also can not run on my laptop. I did try shotcut on both my pc and laptop, and it runs pretty smoooth on both and has not crhased a single time so far (had it for weeks) It has less featuers but resolve is honestly overkill unless youre making high quality content
something's clearly wrong with your machine if VSDC output is as you said in the video: glitchy, blinky etc. I'm using it on low-mid range laptop with 8GB RAM and onboard video...works fine no glitch no blinky blinky.
As for the user interface, yeah it's a bit cluttered compared to others but the layout is fully customizable. I actually prefer the original classic layout coz it resembles the layout in Godot, Unity and Roblox Studio (those are game engines).
If you gonna make update video on this one, please redo the VSDC test coz the glitchy blinky you experienced are not normal.
Tips: VSDC often does giveaways on the Pro version which means full GPU support along with other premium features.
Till now the best oprn source videos editing software os da Vinci resolve, very well made, professional, good UI, very powerful, can do all things. However it's GPU intensive sometimes.
Thank you for the review. I've been using Kdenlive for my utterly basic video editing needs. Kdenlive is great but whenever I need help and find a YT video for my issue the solution it shows does not apply for my version of the sw. Will give Shotcut a try.
Kdenlive has been my goto on linux for years. I'm using it now on a windows machine and it is so fucking broken.
I absolutely love Davinci Resolve but it's so damn resource intensive so I've been looking for a different editor. Thanks for this bro. I'm looking to try out KdenLive
Hi did you try kden live are satisfied?
Great comparison video with lots of good info!! Thank you!
My favorite free editor is VideoProc Vlogger.
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I use DaVinci resolve and Kdenlive.
Really want to thank you for this video and information. As someone who's interesting in learning more about editing video and getting free, user-friendly software, this was VERY VERY helpful!!!
I found Kdenlive very buggy (both my Linux distro's version and the more recent binary from the website). The worst bug for me is the smooth animated keyframes reverting to linear after save-close-reload. The other very annoying one is the rotoscoping mask often being displayed in the wrong place when zoomed in. It's also unusably slow when I have four or more layers, like e.g. when I want to create a simple animation from a handful of modest size images on top of the video or even just on a plain colour background (png images with transparency). I don't understand why people like this video editor so much. Maybe there is something wrong with my setup but I tried it on two very different systems and the same problems arise on both.
It's simple, free, opensource, it gets the job done, has an easy learning curve
Is not buggy when I use Kdenlive. I am sticking with Kdenlive because is free,full version does it job. Also kdenlive has the ability of applying LUTS out of the box. Not like DaVinci Resolve the free version doesn't allow Luts without paying.
@@chileaus Resolve Free allows Luts, what are you talking about?
@@EugeniaLoli That's good, the reason I said that is because the previous version wasn't allow to apply LUTS in the free version.
@@chileaus They always allowed luts in the free version. I've been using Resolve since 2012.
Thank you. I'd be curious to know you opinion about a few more video editors (some if not all of them may not be cross-platform) such as pitivi, olive, lives, flowblade, cinelerra and even 'blind' CLI video editor.
I like Flowblade and Olive, but didn't include them since Olive still needs a lot of development, and Flowblade is Linux only. I actually chose these 10 programs based how often they were mentioned in comments of my previous RUclips videos. People were like, 'what about Filmora??' so I included them to show how they compared. I have explored Cinelerra, Pitivi, and Lives, but have not been impressed with them.
Thanks for your time and effort ! Excellent review, and also a good starting point to make a choice.
VSDC is the most unintuitive video editor I've ever seen.
Can support GPU
I am starting to learn kdenlive (thanks to your tutorials 🙂, I am not into video editing etc. ). However, was wondering if it will be possible to do a refresh on your kdenlive tutorial playlist 🙂 - seems like a lot has changed since then, including the interface.
You are doing the amazing job , A spreadsheet for camparing the video editors ,Really!! But this video clears my all doubts regard this topic , keep hardworking ,you will surely achieve success one day ❤️👍👍
watermark on the exports is a deal breaker to me. This is why I consider videopad much better, because it doesn't have that problem. Just kidding I'll stick to kdenlive until there is a competitive opensource alternative.
With many you have quality loss but i find one with full quality; davinci resolve.
In conclusion Davinci Resolve & Kdenlive+Natron (In the Future Olive Editor 0.2 Whit Node Editor)
Thanks a lot for the video. Appreciate!!. On your website now
(Windows) Shotcut has loads of bugs unfortunately (the Linux version is slightly better).
The more you use it the more frustrating it gets.
It's a shame because I like the layout and most things about it.
Close, but no cigar.
Great summary.
But kdenlive and shotcut is a very slow and sometime it's freezing 😞 but I'm always using kdenlive
How well would Blender+Kdenlive+Natron combination turn out?
I've used vsdc free and I have had no problems with it I would put it top 6. It might have corrupted files for you but idk.
I made a video to complement an original song but the song audio has too much reverb. I can reduce the echo on the audio but How do I reduce it while keeping it attached to the video itself.
Thanks,
Warren
I use kdenlive, but I'd use blender alongside it just for the scrolling text for my EAS scenarios.
[Macro]
I've been using the free ver. of LightWorks on and off again for 5 years, and constantly for nearly 2 years. I recommend it for newbies that want to mess around with making videos; for it's ease of use.
I've been able to push lightworks pretty far by using it and GIMP to get around the limits of the free ver.
The keying features is pretty good. And I've used it for making pseudo animations.
But I have been moving to using DaVinci Resolve now for it more robust features.
There was a learning curve for me going from one to another. But I'm looking for what I'l be able to do with it.
[Micro]
When making the pseudo animations for my project. I have to have make them in a separate project. Then export it, so I can add them to my main project. Because it keeps lightworks to run smoother. I do have to fight lightworks sometimes when there is lage amount of keying being done. Some of it was my inexperience, but now a lot of it is lightworks crapping out on me. (I don't have any of them uploaded yet. So I can't show what can be done with the higher end keying in lightworks)
[Tech]
I have used a laptop to edit.
It took me longer to start trying DaVinci Resolve because my old laptop could not run it. I would start the program and my computer would shut off. When my laptop died at the end of last year. I bought a higher end laptop. And DaVinci Resolve has no problem running now.
question... maybe that matters more for me, coz I work with music, but the audio bar on the right side from Kdenlive supposed to freeze when I stop the video? like you see the sound spectrum, but it doesn't go down. Davinci doesn't have that, but I wonder... is there an option to change in the setting? I have the last version of Kdenlive
Have used 4 of these! Kdenlive is my favorite (on Mint and Win-doze), Resolve on Windows platform is number 2.
Where pitivi?
"This might be a good one for kids to get started using" Bro did not hold back 💀💀
you forgot Olive ?
Can you make a video about free animation apps on mobile
And rank it or rank tier
i use kdenlive and lumafusion both are great simple progams
openshot is buggy
What can you say about Cinelerra?
Cinelerra is not my favorite, but it is a decent video editor. It's not cross platform. I do like how it presents filters and effects.
OM GOD.! lot of analsysis on comparing softare.. this is called the best video
Can you make a video on how to purchase davnci resolve.
really helpful video, thank you for this video man
Your videos are super nice. You simply need to make more attractive and exciting thumbnails. Your view count will blow up
.............KA......BOOM ! Lol !
Filmora has changed lifetime license
Kudos! You did a great job comparing all these. But can you please make a short video describing in your experience the best multiplatform (and preferably GPL license) programs for making titles. I liked how your Shotcut titles look. Good looking animated titles are extremely important. As for me, just few days ago I switched to Kdenlive. Took me max 4 days to learn it. You did great tutorials, great presentation skills. The reason kdenlive have no presets shocks at first, but now I know why - the program is soo simple and intuitive, that it need no presets. I personally (I am the average RUclipsr) started with Windows Movie Maker in 2008 and used it for 2 years. In around 2011 switched to Magix Movie Edit Pro (commercial product, but back then I disliked the free products and it was better than Windows Movie Maker). Used it for almost 11 years (upgraded 2-3 times). Not perfect but did what I needed. Around 2018-2019 learned Davinci Resolve, but it was too heavy and complicated (and Blender looks so too), so I stayed on Movie Edit Pro. By accident learned about kdenlive and it works lightning fast, compared to what I have experience with, so I am switching to it. Only thing which I really need are good animated titles. Movie Edit Pro have some animated half-vector half-raster graphic presets, which so far do what I need, but I want to ditch it completely. So, I need something not much complicated than kdenlive for vector animated titles. And I wonder what software do they use to make these lyrics music videos where lyric words line up on the page coming from all directions, sorta like playing Tetris. But in my personal opinion, kdenlive suits what most RUclipsrs and home video enthusiasts need. Most people get pirate copies of Adobe Premiere, but why, when you have a free and much lighter product, which also is multiplatform...
Titles, subtites and the "Transform" effect are TOP three Kdenlive features. Transitions are next! Once learned it's great, my favorite editor on Linux and Windows.
you must be reallly back 😁
since you chnaged your fb page profile pic .
Oh man, you're watching! I actually just regained access to that Facebook page, I've been locked out for the past year!
Thank you, very helpful!
Where would olive rank?
Good question. I think it would be in the top 3 when its finished being developed and more stable. I really like Olive a lot!
Shotcut is the video editor you will need.
Two things:
One: Thanks, this helped allot!
Two: I dare you to reply to this, my brother said you wouldn't, so please reply xD
Replied! Glad it helped. Hope you and your brother have a great day!
@@TJFREE Wow, you actually replied, ok lol.
You have a great day too!
If choosing between kdenlive and blender video editor, what would you recommend
Unless you already have experience using Blender for 3d work, I would recommend Kdenlive.
How come Power Director didn't make it to your list?
It's extremely popular.
What about olive
Muchas gracias por compartir tu gran trabajo
Hello,sir! I want to ask you why I downloaded Blender but It doesn't support or I can 't run the software on my computer.
maybe due to low RAM
Could be your graphics card or drivers that are outdated , update your drivers or try an earlier version of blender , at the moment I'm running version 3 of blender on one computer and version 2.6 on my much older computor
Thank you so much!
Very good thanks
First...... 🎉
Lightworks can export 1080p IF you link a vimeo account, which is free
And then download it in 1080p too? Then upload to RUclips?
@@StephenSE9 No, you don't necessarily have to upload do vimeo, neither download from it. You just have to link to a vimeo account and the option to export to 1080p just becomes available. It will in fact try to upload to vimeo automatically right after rendering, but you can just kill the process while it is uploading and the video file will be in your default rendering directory. You could also temporarily turn off network to prevent a the upload.
@@lucazfcI understand. Definitely worth trying.
How CapCut?
Thanks for the info. I'm currently using PowerDirector 15. The reasons I haven't upgraded to a newer version were partly financial, but also because PowerDirector nowadays REALLY makes you jump through hoops unless you get their subscription plan - which I FLAT OUT REFUSE to do. So one of the better ones of these might be what I am looking for.
How come he didn't evaluate PowerDirector?
@@trinifirst6702 It's not free.
My exact experience! My first RUclipss (first 7) , were created using Cyberlink PD 15. Started using Kdenlive when I added Linox OS to my system. Most of my videos since 2014 have been about using Kdenlive, which is GREAT for me! My RUclipss are just for fun.
who Wons?
i use blender and davinci
Wow 😮 Nice
You can create a timeline for this nice video! It's better for use!
it's in the description
@@mrmalio It's better to exist on his timeline video too!
thanks
kdenlive is unstable, and crashes constantly. How can it be on the first place? Oo
There are a lot of complains to it on youtube
This hasn't been my experience, and I feel like I have tested it on a variety of machines over many years. I will say I have never tried Kdenlive on Mac, and also not very much on Windows... It could be that certain work flows are more prone to triggering crashes. I have also helped a lot of people to get started using Kdenlive, and it has always seemed stable to me.
On windows kdenlive is crashing everytime i use it
@@TJFREE Maybe it depends on hardware? Because The Linux Experiment complained about kdenlive stability, DistroTube made a whole video why he hate kdenlive for glitches a bugs, TechHut made a video why he switched to davinci from kdenlive
So this is not an individual case, this a systematic problem. And these guys definitely used Linux as their system
It could be hardware, or I also think certain workflows could be to blame. I think the negative thoughts about Kdenlive by the RUclipsrs you mentioned have changed by now. They all seem to be currently using, recommending, speaking highly of Kdenlive.
@@TJFREE You are trying to promote the free apps, but the truth is that kdenlive, and ALL other apps seen here, are unstable. Heck even Resolve is a bit unstable. Video editing is not easy to program, it's among the most difficult of all kinds of apps because there are too many moving parts. Part of the reason why all these open source apps are unstable is because they rely on ffmpeg or mlt framework and many other third party libraries. Too many bugs on these libs are making the editors buggy as well.
But overall, Resolve runs circles around any of the suggested apps, and it's more stable because it has implemented and tested everything in house. And the watermark is not a watermark, it's simply a reminder that some features are Studio only. You are not supposed to use these features unless you upgrade your app to Studio. They are there only for preview reasons, to quickly see what they do, to make you decide to buy Studio or not. But the Free version is more than capable on its own. Certainly more than Kdenlive.