Video editing help

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I tried (I think) the AVS video editor. As i remember it was pretty good and there is a free version that you can test. It puts a water mark on your video from time to time if you use the free version.
Here is a link to the website that I’ve used for many years to get free software etc.
http://www.snapfiles.com/downloadfind.php?st=video+editing&action=s&offset=10&lc=4&searchsort=

[Heather Holm]

Video editing just IS time-intensive.

For Windows, there’s Movie Maker which is available for free from Microsoft if you don’t have it already. For Mac there’s iMovie, which has more options than Movie Maker, e.g. for layering video so the one on top shows in the rendered movie. To get that for Windows, a few years ago I bought Adobe Premiere Elements, which is a baby version of Premiere, the professional program. Good enough for me.

You do have to separate the audio from the video somehow, so if you open the file in whatever and save the audio only as mp3 or wav (I’m guessing that Shotcut can do this), you can add a different visual in a new file.

A still image rather than a moving one should make a smaller file for a quicker upload to YouTube.

If you want a moving image you can buy stock video from places like
https://videohive.net
https://www.istockphoto.com
and lots more. Read their terms and conditions, though.

Or you can make a slideshow of your own photos, with pan and zoom effects. That takes a long time to put together, however, especially for a session of an hour or more!

A great source of free, beautiful still photos is https://unsplash.com/

For myself, I usually listen to other people’s session videos while I’m cooking or gardening as if it were radio anyway. I’m not watching. A still image would be fine, as far as I’m concerned.

[Candace Craw-Goldman]

Hi Elisa

Google every single one of your questions and the internet will also respond with a load of suggestion (Heather also gave great suggestions thank you.)

Video editing – no matter what – is a skill you cannot fake… you have to spend time learning them.

YouTube tutorials are available on almost everything. Also go to youtube and search TUTORIAL on all of your questions!

Good luck!!!

[Chrysilla Lewies]

Have a look at pexel video. I’ve used that before.

[Elisa Herrera Wright]

Thank you all! I had tried Googling and it was overwhelming so I figured I would filter it down some here and then google from there.

[Candace Craw-Goldman]

I like Filmora. The tutorials are pretty good. The whole program is very basic and pretty intuitive.