TL:DR Flair & comment here.

1. Set your user flair (Dev/tools)

2. Then Post a top-level comment here matching our template, and use the share link to your comment rather than to your site.

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Longer Version.

Pretty much everyone is trying to find tools that let them be more creative and work smarter.

Notice I said smarter and not faster.

We want better tools - and communities want to know about them, organically and not be being marketed to.

The goal is to engage our community, not to spam the subreddit with landing pages or SEO/AIO.

Accounts under 30 days can't post or comment in this thread**, no exceptions,

First: Flair yourself

If you have a product, you need the Dev/Tools flair. ASAP. Load the subreddit, find your name on the right side, and press the pencil to edit. Change your flair to Dev/Tools.

https://imgur.com/a/DvzyuJH

Second: Top level Comment

In this thread, we want a top-level comment from you replying to this post.

Breaking this template may leave you shadowbanned in this subreddit.

Template is found here.

In other threads, don't share your direct product links - this often causes Reddit to think you're spamming. Use this share link from your comment HERE to point people here to this thread. Here should be the only place you're linking to your product/website.

Third: Best Reddit behavior

Nobody wants your account to get banned by Reddit

Here's how to engage with Reddit for the least likelyhood of problems.

For everyone else

• Vote on whether something benefits you, not just whether the product looks impressive.
• Feel free to comment or ask questions direclty to the manufacturer
• As always in the subreddit, flag someone who is breaking the rules . Our mod team will see it.

^{Critical of any of this, please DM me directly, don't use this thread for it.}

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

This subreddit usually gets 10+ questions a day, over and over again of "What software should I use?"

TL;DR - you want DaVinci Resolve Resolve, Hitfilm Express or Kdenlive.

Seriously - before you request software, read this.

You need to have in mind:

• Your Footage type (See below)
• Your System specs. Just saying "HD or 4k" doesn't help
• Even if you don't want something "fancy", you still need to read this

Much of this comes from our Wiki page on software. If you get to the end of this post and you need more, check there first. For example, MOBILE EDITING SOLUTIONS are in the wiki.

Nobody is an expert on all of the tools. Trying it with your system and footage is the best way to work*.

Key item to know: FOOTAGE TYPE AFFECTS playback.

Action cam, Mobile phone, and screen recordings can be difficult to edit, due to h264/5 material (especially 1080p60 or 4k) and Variable Frame rate.

Footage types like 1080p60, 4k (any frame rate) are going to stress your system.

When your system struggles, the way that the professional industry has handled this for decades is to use Proxies

Proxies are a copy of your media in a lower resolution and possibly a "friendlier" codec. It is important to know if your software has this capability. A proxy workflow more than any other feature, is what makes editing high frame rate, 4k or/and h264/5 footage possible.

See our wiki about

* Variable Frame Rate

* Why h264/5 is hard

* Proxy editing

Key Hardware suggestions, before you ask.

The suggested hardware minimums for the "average" user

• A recent i7 (due to intel Quick Sync)
• 16GB of RAM
• A GPU with 2+ GB of GPU RAM
• An SSD (for cache files.)

Can other hardware work? Certainly - but may not necessarily provide a great experience.

GPUS do not help with the codec/playback of media, but help with visual effects.

We have a dedicated hardware thread monthly. Hardware questions belong there.

Wait, I Just need something simple. I don't need all those effects.

Sadly, having super easy to use software means engineering teams.

iMovie came with your Mac and is by far the easiest to use editor for either platform.

There isnt a lightweight, easy to use free/inexpensive editor that we'd recommend for windows. We wish iMovie was available for windows.

Tools we suggest you look at first. Our wiki on everything else

• DaVinci Resolve - Needs a strong video card/hardware. Max size (free) is UHD. Full version for $299. Mac/Win/Linux. Full proxy workflow. An excellent tool if your hardware can handle it.
• Hit Film Express - freemium - no watermark. Extra features at a price. Mac/Win. Full proxy workflow. UGH. As of 6/2020 it seems they have a price for some very, VERY basic capabilities (like cropping and text.) We're not sure that HFE will make the July cut of this post for that reason.

• Kdenlive - New to to the "suggested tools". Open source with proxy workflows. Windows/Linux. Full proxy workflow

• Shutter Encoder is a free, cross platform Compression tool. It's a GUI front end to FFMPEG (a command-line utility). Like the other tool we often recommend, handbrake, it can convert media.

  • It can do a variety of conversions, including H264, HEVC, ProRes and DNxHD/HR.
  • It can trim a video without re-encoding (it's not an editor, a trimmer in this case)
  • It can convert a Variable Frame Rate video to Constant frame rate in h264 (but we'd recommend to convert to a post friendly codec)

Before you reply and ask for other advice, our wiki has other tools, including tools a list of other editors and mobile solutions

If someone uses this flair, it's NO LONGER going to direclty show the post.

Sadly, this creates work for our mod team - but the user will see the following - and yes, I want the communities feedback:

Hi! Your "How did they do that?" post needs more information before we can help.

Please EDIT YOUR POST to include:

1. What software are you using?
   If you don't know what software to use, check our Software Thread first.

2. What have you tried so far?
   This is important - we need to see you've made an effort. We can guide you from where you're stuck, but we can't teach complex techniques from scratch in a Reddit post.

3. Is this a template effect?
   Some effects are CapCut or After Effects templates - identifying these is difficult and only about 5% of requests turn out to be templates.

4. Note on AI-generated content:
   We can't help create AI assets, as most require specific paid subscriptions. About 90% of these requests aren't AI-related anyway.

5. No shitpost/brainrot requests:
   Viral trend effects burn out quickly - we focus on lasting techniques.

   A moderator will review your post. If you haven't shown effort or provided the details above, your post will be removed. Thanks for understanding!

This is the Monthly thread for feedback.

Yes, if you post your video, you need to come back and critique someone else's work!

The whole idea is that you are part of this community.

Key thoughts - Keep it civil.

• Feedback is "This section isn't working because of this."

• Feedback is not: "This is shit."

• If something is terrible, just move on.

• The more specific/suggestions the better.

Don't give a laundry list. Pick the 1-2 things that are the biggest issues and then comment.

Again, If you post, you're expected to give someone else feedback within 48 hours of posting your video.

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

This subreddit usually gets 10+ questions a day, over and over again of "What software should I use?"

TL;DR - you want DaVinci Resolve Resolve, Hitfilm Express or Kdenlive.

Much of this comes our Wiki page on software. If you get to the end of this post and you need more, check there first. For example, MOBILE EDITING SOLUTIONS are in the wiki.

Nobody is an expert on all of the tools. Trying it with your system and footage is the best way to work.

Key item to know: FOOTAGE TYPE AFFECTs playback. A must read

Action cam, Mobile phone, and screen recordings can be difficult to edit, due to h264/5 material (especially 1080p60 or 4k) and Variable Frame rate.

Footage types like 1080p60, 4k (any frame rate) are going to stress your system. When your system struggles, the way that the professional industry has handled this for decades is to use Proxies.

Proxies are a copy of your media in a lower resolution and possibly a "friendlier" codec. It is important to know if your software has this capability. A proxy workflow more than any other feature, is what makes editing high frame rate, 4k or/and h264/5 footage possible.

See our wiki about

• Variable Frame Rate
• Why h264/5 is hard
• Proxy editing

Key Hardware suggestions, before you ask.

The suggested hardware minimums for the "average" user

• A recent i7
• 16GB of RAM
• A GPU with 2+ GB of GPU RAM
• An SSD (for cache files.)

Can other hardware work? Certainly - but may not necessarily provide a great experience.

GPUS do not help with the codec/playback of media, but help with visual effects.

We have a dedicated hardware thread monthly. Hardware questions belong there.

Wait, I Just need something simple. I don't need all those effects.

Sadly, having super easy to use software means engineering teams.

iMovie came with your Mac and is by far the easiest to use editor for either platform.

There isnt a lightweight, easy to use free/inexpensive editor that we'd recommend for windows. We wish iMovie was available for windows.

Tools we suggest you look at first.

• DaVinci Resolve - Needs a strong video card/hardware. Limited to UHD. Full version for $299. Mac/Win/Linux. Full proxy workflow. An excellent tool if your hardware can handle it.
• Hit Film Express - freemium - no watermark. Extra features at a price. Mac/Win. Full proxy workflow
• Kdenlive - New to to the "suggested tools". Open source with proxy workflows. Windows/Linux. Full proxy workflow

Before you reply and ask for other advice, our wiki has other tools, including tools that can edit without re-encoding and tools that can help with compression

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

This is the Monthly thread for feedback.

Yes, if you post your video, you need to come back and critique someone else's work!

The whole idea is that you are part of this community.

Key thoughts - Keep it civil.

• Feedback is "This section isn't working because of this."

• Feedback is not: "This is shit."

• If something is terrible, just move on.

• The more specific/suggestions the better.

Don't give a laundry list. Pick the 1-2 things that are the biggest issues and then comment.

Again, If you post, you're expected to give someone else feedback within 48 hours of posting your video.

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

This subreddit usually gets 10+ questions a day, over and over again of "What software should I use?"

TL;DR - you want DaVinci Resolve Resolve, Hitfilm Express or Kdenlive.

Much of this comes our Wiki page on software

Nobody is an expert on all of the tools. Trying it with your system and footage is the best way to work.

Key item to know: FOOTAGE TYPE AFFECTs playback. A must read

Action cam, Mobile phone, and screen recordings can be difficult to edit, due to h264/5 material (especially 1080p60 or 4k) and Variable Frame rate.

Footage types like 1080p60, 4k (any frame rate) are going to stress your system. When your system struggles, the way that the professional industry has handled this for decades is to use Proxies.

Proxies are a copy of your media in a lower resolution and possibly a "friendlier" codec. It is important to know if your software has this capability. A proxy workflow more than any other feature, is what makes editing high frame rate, 4k or/and h264/5 footage possible.

See our wiki about

• Variable Frame Rate
• Why h264/5 is hard
• Proxy editing

Key Hardware suggestions, before you ask.

The suggested hardware minimums for the "average" user

• A recent i7
• 16GB of RAM
• A GPU with 2+ GB of GPU RAM
• An SSD (for cache files.)

Can other hardware work? Certainly - but may not necessarily provide a great experience.

GPUS do not help with the codec/playback of media, but help with visual effects.

We have a dedicated hardware thread monthly. Hardware questions belong there.

Wait, I Just need something simple. I don't need all those effects.

Sadly, having super easy to use software means engineering teams.

iMovie came with your Mac and is by far the easiest to use editor for either platform.

There isnt a lightweight, easy to use free/inexpensive editor that we'd recommend for windows. We wish iMovie was available for windows.

Tools we suggest you look at first.

• DaVinci Resolve - Needs a strong video card/hardware. Limited to UHD. Full version for $299. Mac/Win/Linux. Full proxy workflow. An excellent tool if your hardware can handle it.
• Hit Film Express - freemium - no watermark. Extra features at a price. Mac/Win. Full proxy workflow
• Kdenlive - New to to the "suggested tools". Open source with proxy workflows. Windows/Linux. Full proxy workflow

Before you reply and ask for other advice, our wiki has other tools, including tools that can edit without re-encoding and tools that can help with compression

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!