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      I’m voting for kdenlive. And krita for image creation, I use both (although my wife uses the tiktok editor whatever it’s called on her phone and her videos are great, so there’s that…)

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        *capcut it’s called capcut apparently the free version is pretty good although I dunno if it works on desktop

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          Not sure why everyone keeps on using Capcut on Android other than to stay under Bytedance’s ecosystem. In my experience InShot works much better and is much friendlier. For better results it’s worthwhile to just wait and use decent desktop software though. Smartphone apps should be a last resort.

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    Why use that obvious scam trap ?

    Use open source software where you have an editor that is free as in freedom AND free as in beer

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      Like Davinci? Wonderful piece of software without a doubt but OMG is it hard to pickup for someone that doesn’t want to become full time video editor…

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        I use shortcut, can do a lot of cool things and it’s not overwhelmingly difficult. A few simple guides and you’re up and running.

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        That’s only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it

        With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.

        From the standpoint who doesn’t do much coding it’s probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can’t use one of your favourite programs anymore.

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      Came here for the blender mention. I don’t edit video often, but blender is fine for basic work! (and maybe more but I’m not a good enough editor to know)

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        Blender can do very advanced editing and even motion graphics, but the learning curve is steeeeep.

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      Yep, was gonna say this, at least if you’re on linux.

      A bit of a confusing UI, but it doesn’t seem to be as resource intensive as other editors with similar feature sets.

      (Though I do have very little experience with video editors/editing in general… shotcut ‘clicked’ for me after a few hours of just brute force fucking about with no manual or anything)

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    This stuff drives me crazy. I’m not an artisty type, but sometimes I wanna enhance a photo, enlarge something, remove a background, on layer images, so I search up “free online whatever tool,” go through the upload and whatever, and then all of a sudden it’s all “nah, I changed my mind. the thing I told you I did I’m gonna have to charge you for or make you sign up for an account or whatever.”

    If I wanted to go through all that, I’d already have a dang tool installed! Thankfully after enough of these roadblocks, I’ve got a pretty good arsenal of free utilities, though nothing to help you out here. It looks like some other comments do though!

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        PDF is copyrighted by Adobe (or something similar).

        That is why all the PDF editors are paid for, since they need to pay a license to Adobe in order to be allowed to edit PDFs.

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          Isnt it owned by ISO Nowadays but they charge for the standard (correct me if am wrong)