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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