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I Found a Decent Video Editor
I have been an avid user of Camtasia for several years. However, recently, I became a bit disillusioned by the product. The recent updates didn't seem feature-packed enough to justify paying for updates. I opted not to upgrade.
As you are aware, when you don't upgrade software, after a while the company stops supporting older versions. This means that sooner rather than later, TechSmith (the company that created Camtasia) will stop supporting the version I have.
I decided to check out alternatives just to see what is available. I have done this in the past and most alternative video editors didn't measure up to Camtasia, until now.
I found a great software suite of products that includes screen and video capture along with a robust video editor. I thought for sure this product was going to cost as much (if not more) than Camtasia. To my surprise, it is free. Even if you decide to upgrade, you looking at a cost of $20 per year.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the company and don't receive any compensations or kudos from the company.
The software is VSDC and you can find it at:
http://www.videosoftdev.com/
The free version is not restrictive meaning you can save and there are no watermarks added to your videos. It also seems feature-packed enough for most uses. I have picked up the pro version upgrade. But, you can start without it.
My biggest complaint with the software is the documentation could be better. The company does provide videos and I have not had the chance to check them all out. But, I am sure they will include more or third-party people will fill in any gaps as they start using the software. Could be an opportunity for content for all of us - just saying!
Anyway, I don't see the downside of downloading and trying this software. It is still new to me so I admit to not knowing everything about it. But, so far, what I have used it for works and I am happy that an alternative to Camtasia seems to be available on the market now.
Enjoy!
Best Regards,
Jim
P.S. Let me know what you think. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to comment on your experiences with the software both good and bad.
Update: I posted these in a comment below,but here are two more free video editors that are supposed to be decent as well:
https://shotcut.org/features/
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/davinciresolve
VSDC looks like just what I've been looking for since the one I'd recently been using for screen recording, Monosnap doesn't seem to want to work right lately.
I'd been using Monosnap without a glitch for a few screen recordings, but now it's not letting me save the video at all. I keep getting an error message and then it completely shuts down. So frustrated with it, lost two screen recordings already while doing digital paintings!
It's going to be a rather large project to put together, since I'll have to piece things together now, so I'll need the video editor capabilities too. Anyways, this is awesome to find one that has both a recorder and editor in one program!
Thanks again for sharing! Definitely trying this out!
Best wishes :) ~Sherry
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Ken
I can see something right off the bat that it will replace for me - having to flip and rotate videos by way of command lines in VLC. VLC is great for what it does but it does come with having to look up and memorize commands.
Windows is FAR more push-button than Linux is!
I have not run any projects yet with it but I can see I will need to go with the Pro version which will enable me to edit sound. I have several projects coming up very soon, when I get a hold of a powerpoint presentation I need to incorporate into associated videos.
There are tons of these things out there but most of them are either incredibly complicated, require rendering and/or re-encoding, or just plain junks.
Not many of the video-clipping programs I've tried hold up very well with larger projects as this often interferes with key frames.
Others work very well but then you must wait for rendering, which can take hours, even for smaller videos.
Still others I've had editors in them but the inability to import anything already made (ActivePresenter an example, which is a comprehensive program, but requires screen or region-capture, hence real-time recording to get what I want into the editor.)
I gave up on Camtasia years ago.
This program looks promising! Thanks for featuring it here. It may be the very one-stop program I need for Windows. My Linux computer is strictly VLC, which works much better in that operating system than it does in Windows by a long shot, being that it is native to Linux.
Thanks, I appreciate this!
Best Regards,
Jim
https://shotcut.org/features/
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/davinciresolve
This is a video tutorial (which does say some things do take practice) that will help you get started with it. No doubt, and with this program doing some things differently, there will be learning curves. These demonstrations should help folks get their feet wet with VSDC.
https://youtu.be/J0GK5o8j6LY
Daniel
You are the only person who needs to get used to how your speech sounds when hearing it on a recording.
In my opinion, using a robot voice would make your videos that much more inferior. When I come across a video that uses a digitized voice, I tend to pass it by.
Of course, this is down to you. This is just a suggestion that you don't revert to using a robot voice. It may have negative effects on viewers' trust.
