I Edited The Same Video on Every FREE Software

we all know that editing softwares are not cheap I spend £84 a year on just Premier Pro which half the time wants me to fail I swear to God surely there is a

free alternative out there that has the same functionality right well there are literally dozens of options out there ranging from the good

to the bad to the downright ugly but which of these are worth using well who better to save you and me some precious Cod points money than the inventor of

editing me finza yes I invented editing and yes I am in a deep and never- ending pit of crippling de so how am I going to do this today we'll be testing eight different free alternatives to premere

Pro I'm going to be creating the exact same video with all of them a video that's designed to test each software's ability to do animations transitions key frames text and audio design so here's

that video made with premere Pro exactly the way I like it now let's remake that in our first free software Da Vinci resolve so we're going to start with da

Vinci resolve which does kind of feel like cheating because it's already such a polished program with great functionality and yes I have made presets for this but we're not going to be using those today because that really is cheating we're going to do everything

from scratch let's begin the first thing I did was download Da Vinci from the Blackmagic website now you really got to be careful here because there are so many other websites advertising the Vinci resolve and I imagine that they're probably trying to scam you or just make

you download their own software which I totally don't fall victim to later in this video but it but on the Filmore website it says hit film Express so make sure that you download it from blackmagicdesign tocom and then when

you're in there you sign a form and then it's downloading in every single software I'm going to be recreating an animation which I made in Premiere Pro in about 2 to 5 minutes what do you think Jack can I recreate

that let's begin animation I'm happy to report that key frames in Da Vinci are really easy to use using those little key frame buttons up top I managed to get a very simple movement done in seconds now obviously I want to change

these key frames so that they match the smoothness of the ones that I made in premere Pro in D Vinci is as simple as clicking on this little key frame icon and then going into the correct key frame variable and changing it from

there not a fan of how dark these lines are I just can't see can you see I can't see anyway I changed the individual key frames by pressing these buttons here they create either a smooth key frame or an adjustable one

and with a little bit of tweaking I managed to make key frames that look just as good as the ones from here when you don't got transformed to do all the blurring for you you do the blur yourself these are the hands of a

working man that's right instead of automatically having blur like in Premier if you use the transform effect in the free version of Da Vinci I'm going to have to apply it myself using a separate Effect called directional blur

I simply key frame it so that it intensifies with the movement and so that it also follows the direction of where my character is going I apply some smoothness to those key frames and this is what it looks

like oh hey hell yeah making that transition in the background was really easy and da Vinci applying it was super simple and it has the motion blur included a massive thumbs up from me now it's time for an adjustment layer in

which we're going to add a zoom now this is important because as an editor I want to be able to add zooms on top of everything rather than adding individual zooms on each layer unsurprisingly IND

viny this is possible but and this is a huge butt you have to go into nodes to use them if any of you have seen my

video on Flame you'll know that I hate nodes hate using nodes so anyways nodes aside this Zoom worked pretty well and

the next thing to do was the text to copy that text animation that I made on Premier Pro all I had to do was key frame the scale in the text now as you'd expect this was really easy to do

in Da Vinci and I had it looking pretty great within literally my first try so I've just finished the da Vinci resolve export I think it was pretty easy I mean it's not not quite Premier but it was easy enough let's see how this

looks now on to the next software hit film Express I seemingly find this online very easily download it and start editing straight away all right we're downloading HIIT film Express when all

of a sudden something doesn't quite feel right and then I realized just hilm Express I fell for the oldest trick in the book I'm in fil MOA HH w share had used Google ADW words to have Phil Mor show

up when you search for hit film Express AKA false advertising which I just fell for I'm on Phil Mor 13 you you downloaded fil MO is that okay fil Mo

got you I'm using fil Mo now it's free pting I guess it's free generally speaking fil Mora is a very smooth software to use I don't mind the UI UI is fine which as a free software is

incredibly High Praise filora had some pretty basic animation presets like a slide up which I Dred on for the first slide and then I used custom key framing for the rest of it the key frames are done in a similar layout to Premier Pro

except it isn't quite as easy to navigate but what is easy to navigate to is the transitions tab yes there is a tab dedicated to Transitions

well d da so I go in there and I slap on a fast slide right I'd say it looks pretty good but it doesn't have the customization options to make it any smoother than it already is so moving swiftly on to that all important Zoom

annoyingly filmar just doesn't have any adjustment layer capabilities okay adjustment layers don't Zoom that's fine so I'm going to have to group those two clips together and then apply the zoom on that grouping which once again with

the key framing is easy enough to do this is what that looks like now moving on to the text and there is absolutely no way that I'm not using the hilarious text presets there is quite a

bit of choice here and they all look pretty cool but I ended up going with this one right here I added sound effects very quickly really nothing to write home about and

then I was done in order to export the project I have to sign up to their services and all that stuff which I guess at this point I should do but I've made this whole thing without signing up to it and I've still managed to make it

so I'm going to go Against the Machine a little bit here I'm just going to record the screen of the whole thing and then crop into it and show you as the final piece and that's it if you want to use this software then you could to probably

have to sign up for that you understand what I'm saying now I'm going to use hit film Express for real this time and the whole thing starts off like a PowerPoint

presentation welcome to hit film where you can imagine create and share your videos in the next few minutes you'll learn everything you need to create your first video

you I'm a pro I don't need no no tutorials from Hit film I don't need your hand out I'm I invented editing wo there's a lot of stuff going on first

thing we should know about hit film Express is that you cannot drop a folder in there and have it be organized already a huge thumbs down arrow keys move the whole clip redo is control and Y this is confusing as hit film was

a very different experience to all of the other editing softwares it felt very much like its own thing that really requires you to learn it from scratch maybe I should have listened to that tutorial but there were some cool

effects and features that definitely aren't included on any of the other free softwares oh particles and simulations blood spray oh my God look at that onto the key frames and they were pretty

difficult to use mainly because I just couldn't find where to do things we can make it manual bu yet but how how do we change that though how does one make a good key frame on this once I'd figured out how to open key frames the rest was

pretty easy and actually quite good to use W motion BL yes please thank you this was the kind of Animation I got to make with it and it had motion blur a solid singular thumb up for that transitions were easy with a drag and

drop slide then I rendered the whole thing brought it back into the project and added the zoom on top of that because adjustment layers don't exist and then finally I did the text which looked awful is definitely the weak

point of this software this is what the final thing looked like now on to shortcut shortcut short shortcut short shortcut now on to

shortcut whoa look at that right there the first thing that pops up Phil Mora now this is the first open source software that I'm testing and as soon as I open it the layout is pretty simple

all right all right what the hell I actually quite liked how the key frames worked once I got used to them the only thing that kind of sucked was the lack of adjustment layers or even nesting so I had to do that zoom on each clip

individually but luckily being the inventor of editing I managed to make it look quite good the transitions however sucked but the animation generally worked out well so I'm happy enough

anyone who uses this to make full videos like I respect my shot uses shot cut shotgun my shotgun I respect you shot cut uses cut

gun shotgun just switched to something El maybe Da Vinci the free one so here's the final render from shotcut onto light works and Jesus Christ let me tell you straight away me and light works did not get on very well

this software immediately felt like a slap in the face compared to the last four softwares light works is more of a traditional software in the sense that it's similar to how people would edit with physical film and that's why it's

thma shoemaker's editor of choice good for you Thelma you can keep this one this software would definitely work better with a physical console to use which is not helpful for this kind of editing and especially not when you want

it to be free so anyways I managed to get a pretty good- looking animation even without adjustment layers or motion blur but the fact that it all took me over an hour to do is making me question

my whole existence so here is the final render from light works now I always preach to you that it's really important to take breaks when you're editing and I stand by that still

reflect on your day and let your honest thoughts come out I love editing so much and now we're going to move ceremoniously downstairs to use my laptop on which we're going to be

editing on iMovie cap cut and Adobe Express video editor all of these are free and all of these are vastly different first we're going to use iMovie if you own an Apple product then

you have iMovie technically it's free I don't even feel like I need to introduce this I think everyone here who's watching this has probably used iMovie at some point in their life I haven't used iMovie ever other than on iPhone

when you get those like trailers that you can make editing on iMovie properly is exactly what you'd expect you can't really get much customization out of it and you have to rely heavily on their

preset but something that is absolutely shocking to me and genuinely so surprising is that this has been the best UI and user experience out of all of the apps so far including Premier Pro everything's smooth everything works

very easy to find everything and there's little like cool little animations all over the place it's so simple that it can afford to do this but it's like it's actually pretty cool and I wish that there was like a professional software

that had that kind of level of Polish anyways I had a lot of fun making what I could out of it and this is the final render [Music]

Moving Straight on into Adobe Express video editor now what is this it's not Premiere but it is Adobe which should mean it's serviceable right let's download it ad I mean we're not going to download it that's right we're not

downloading this that's because this software runs through a URL here's something I've never really tried before editing a video on a purely web based software this felt about exactly how you'd imagine like editing a video in

Google Slides or some sort of strange PowerPoint editor surprisingly I managed to make a few interesting things happen this would be great in a setting where you're working for a team of people and you need to slap something together real

quick it's basically iMovie but online with all of the mess that comes with Adobe there's a lot going for it but it's also really like just not that great so but overall this just came out like a corporate presentation that I do

actually think would blow the socks off of any 50-year-old office bro in hate jar and here's the final render so finally we have have cap cut now let's address the baby elephant

that is indeed lurking in the corner of this room I have been sponsored by cap cut before to use their mobile editor on this video here where me and Jack went to Octoberfest and made a whole video

using only Iphone and editing it on cap cut it's a pretty cool video and you should go and check that out anyway let's edit this video but having said this I want to say now that I am under no obligation to be nice about the

software and this is definitely not sponsored so keep that in mind so cap cut is free you can do this for free you don't need to even make an account but obviously the pro version's got a lot

more stuff with it everything is just labeled with pro pro pro pro literally everything is locked key framing was sweet in cap cut I managed to make some really smooth animations that even

though they didn't have motion blur looked more than good enough key framing looking pretty good on this and with the transitions the only real struggle I had was finding one amongst all of the pro transitions that you'd have to pay for

it's like searching for a needle in a hay stack and I wish that was easier to navigate text is the exact same story but it does have some pretty cool presets available I mean cap card's got some pretty good on it you can tell

that it's made for Content creators one bad point though is that you can't key frame effects so I can't key frame something like the blur in the background to increase or decrease all of these effects are just pre-done I'm

just supposed to drag and drop and that's it no customization I could definitely make a YouTube video using this Des here we go well that was a big Journey lots of

softwares that I am never going to use ever again and now I'm going home going home but I've learned a lot today mainly that I should be grateful for what Adobe premere Pro has to offer me which is

insane customization easy user interface and user experience and smooth overall workflow I'd say the surprise hit in

this was cap cut the desktop app lots of surprising features even for the free version so quite like that but Da Vinci is obviously the PowerHouse here there's no denying it it's the greatest free editing software available for any

editors looking to just dip their toe in or anything just use Da Vinci that's my my recommendation you don't need the paid version to use my presets so go to my website right here and go and find

the so go to my website right here the Vinci resolve presets are very available they're all brand new and we're really proud of them so go check them out it's going to help your editing Journey a lot

better than paying for Da Vinci you know you know what i' I've done enough editing for a little while now I'm going to have to take a big break a real big break I need to get out of here I need to get out of here right now I got to I

got to go Jack Jack Jack I got to go this isn't funny like I'm going oh you're going to be okay you can like run the channel for the week right next

week right sure okay okay see

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