I have a few occasional family videos I want to crop, that's all I need.
Apparently Movie Maker was removed from Windows. Is there a simple, free and easy to use video editor anymore?
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I used shotcut for my work injury video thing.
Its nothing fancy but it does do its job and its open sourced.
Not that it matters, those videos have 0 views which is really strange to me because ive watched them a few times, and i know my family has too.
Kdenlive is free and good enough for basic tasks
Second that. Ive had good luck with it.
VirtualDub
Blender
Opening a can of beans with a CNC machine
Never thought I would see that suggested.
I remember it as a particularly difficult to use 3d rendering software package. It originally had no menus, no buttons, and no offline help, only hotkeys that weren't documented anywhere in the program. I remember taking to somewhere without internet for a Christmas vacation to learn it and it was almost entirely useless without the forums to tell you which keys did what.
I know the devs finally broke down and made a proper GUI(they were adamantly against it in their forum posts back then, insisting people should learn the hotkeys like with the vi text editor), but never thought I would see it listed as easy to use or as a general purpose video editor. Interesting.
I probably haven't looked at it in nearly 20 years.
I use clip champ on W10. I’m not doing anything complicated but it works well for me.
Windows 10 has stolen more from me than I realized.
RIP my one dumb unfinished Street FIghter IV combo video.
openshot is also a good choice
I've long used OpenShot, which is simpler than the already-mentioned Shotcut for beginners.
I'm pretty retarded and i've tried a bunch of video editing software for more difficult tasks. I borrowed davinci resolve from the internets and it's fairly easy to get into although the interface is confusing at first. I've also tried a bunch of smaller/simpler ones but they usually have a pretty poor interface so the simplicity has a price.
I used to use VirtualDub back in the day, not sure it still works anymore.
I use the ffmpeg commandline for everything now. It is the opposite of easy to use.
Unregistered Hypercam
Immediately seeing those words makes the song Bodies by Drowning Pool play in my head.