video editing programs for youtube

With a good video editing, the material can change completely for the better. Writing a script is a good idea (we'll talk about it later) and if it is complemented by some great improvisation on the recording even better. It is preferable that on material before it is missing, so it is preferable to make many shots.

Once we have the recorded content, it's time to edit the video. We have free and other payment options.

Next we will explore the free options, understanding as such those that are completely free, since there are payment options that also offer excellent free versions , but with limitations. We show them later in this post.

Windows Movie Maker was the video editor that was installed by default in Windows versions up to Windows 7. Simple and basic, but easy to use and well functioning. Windows no longer offers it for download, but it can be obtained this way .

iMovie is the Windows editor for Mac. A good editor that allows you to add titles, filters, effects, soundtrack, etc.

OpenshotIt is an excellent option, powerful and open source. However, problems of instability have been attributed to him. Conversions for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Avidemux is an open source classic. It works really well, although it is somewhat limited in its possibilities. There are versions for Windows, Linux and Mac.

HyperEngine AV is an excellent quality Mac tool. It works very well, although its latest update is from 2015.

IvsEdits is for Windows and despite being free, it is considered as a completely professional video editor .

VideoBlend is another editor for Mac, very convenient to use, allowing you to insert videos, images, audios and make transitions.

ShotcutIt is a free and very professional program, open source and cross platform alternative. It also allows you to take screenshots. If you want to see its possibilities you can consult this tutorial .

Jahshaka , more than a composition and prosproduction video editor, is a special effects video editor, ideal for science fiction or musical films.

VDSC is a video editor, which in its free version has no support and has ads, but is fully functional and unrestricted. It is not one of the best known, despite being a very intuitive nonlinear editor. 

VirtualdubIt was created as an open program about several years ago. Although it was very good in his day, unfortunately it has been somewhat outdated. It is not compatible with some modern formats such as mp4.

Wax is a video editor to create special effects in 2D and 3D. For Windows. Unfortunately, it does not recognize the mp4 format.

ZS4 Video Editor is a good video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux, although its interface is somewhat obsolete.

Zwei-Stein is a great free video and audio editor for Windows, which has many tools. Its disadvantage is that its interface is very technical and not very intuitive.

Hitfilm expressIt is the free version of the Hitfilm program. It has a very intuitive interface, which you can expand with packages (such as those that create science fiction effects, such as laser swords) from € 10, in addition to other types of packages and effects . Its free version is very functional. Ideal for science fiction lovers.

Also the well-known free video player VLC media player allows you to edit videos . Some of the functions included are merge videos, rotate, effects, etc.

Wondershare's Filmora is one of the most popular programs for Windows and Mac users. It is very easy to use, has many possibilities and its price is affordable, costing € 59.99. It also has a free version with limitations (watermark). In any case, the price-quality ratio is excellent .

WeVideo is an online video editor, with cheap monthly subscriptions. It also has a free version, with more limitations.

VideoPad offers numerous possibilities, such as sound selection, conversion to · D, etc., and is easy to use (drag and drop). Its price is relatively cheap, it is less than 100 euros (depends on offers). It has a limited free version. NCH ​​has created forSeveral programs for video and audio editing.

AVS Video Editor is a very versatile tool because it offers many possibilities for video and audio, three hundred video effects and transitions, image stabilization, etc. The annual or limited subscription costs less than 100 euros, depending on the offers.

Movavi is a video editor for Mac and Windows. Very intuitive and therefore easy to master its operation, it has a timeline and numerous effects, video stabilization, etc. It is a cheap program, since it only costs € 29.95.

Magix Video Deluxe is a MAGIX program, creator among other programs of the well-known music editor Music Maker. From € 69.95 to € 99.95 depending on versions.

Adobe Premiere ProIt is one of the best known. It is a professional tool, whose handling is not simple, but offers excellent results. The subscription is monthly, depending on the plan, the cost being from € 12.1 to € 96.78, and there may be offers. In the same house is Adobe After Effects to create stunning effects for video, with similar subscription plans.

Sony Vegas is another very popular program among professional youtubers. It is a very veteran program, since it is over 20 years old and of proven effectiveness. The problem is its price, from € 249, depending on versions. He has a younger brother, Movie Studio , much cheaper, since it costs € 39.99.

Final Cut Pro XIt is a professional video editor for Mac, with great possibilities and numerous editing options. Its price is € 329.99, but you can try it for free for a month.

Screenflow is another excellent video editor for Mac from TeleStream, which has several such programs. Its price is somewhat cheaper than the previous one, € 129, although it allows, prior registration, its download with a watermark. It also allows you to record the screen.

Pinacle Studio is a video editor for Windows, whose price in the cheapest version is € 59.99. It has numerous effects.

PowtoonIt is an online tool that allows you to create videos and presentations with images or cartoons. It has plans from $ 16 per month, although it allows free use on a personal basis with a duration of up to 3 minutes.

Wideo is a simple and intuitive video editor, which has many templates. It has different subscription options from € 19 per month. You can try it for free for 7 days.

Lightworks is a multiplatform option for Windows, Linux and Mac. Its price without limitations of use ranges from € 19.99 per month or 337.99 without any limitations. It has a free alternative with some limitations. Avid Media Composer

It is a video editor for Windows and Mac that does not restrict the weight of the files it works with. Its price is by monthly subscription in which the cheapest is € 19 / month, although it has a more limited free version. Corel

VideoStudio has many effects and is simple to use. The cheapest version costs € 49.99.

Davinci Resolve has been used in Hollywood movies. For Windows, Mac and Linux, it is famous for its color treatment https://ift.tt/2Pnf1xm professional program, which requires good hardware, its price is €, however its free option is very interesting.

Hitfilm proHe is the older brother of Hitfilm Express, his free version. It is a powerful creation tool. Ideal for science fiction and 3D lovers. It costs about € 300, but you have 12 free monthmonth

Screen recorders allow you to record what is going on the screen of our computer. Very useful for games (gamers) or programs, and in general for all types of editing. Many of them are also video editors.

Loom is included as a browser extension, being very simple to use and existing versions for Windows and Mac.

Apowersoft  is another very complete tool, for Windows and Mac, which also allows other possibilities, such as inserting text, notes, icons, etc.

OBS Studio allows transitions, mix audio, stream live, etc. For Windows, Mac or Linux.

Camtasia is a screen recorder and video editor. Its price is over € 250. It is one of the best known, appearing in numerouslists of video editors as favorites.

Screencast Matic (Screencast-O-Matic) is a very intuitive screen recorder and video editor. Its price is very cheap, as it allows monthly subscriptions from € 1.5 per month. The free version allows you to record up to 15 minutes, so it should be considered for those who do not want to spend money.

VokoScreen is a screen recorder for Linux. The instructions are in German language.

Another Adobe product is  Adobe Captitative , to record the screen, very focused on teaching, and also works with subscription plans, € 41.13 / month.

Allow to compress the videos so that they weigh less and convert them to other audiovisual formats.

Any Video Converter is one of the most popular. Free and for Windows users. It allows you to convert between different formats and extract audio.

Handbrake is another handy video format converter for Windows, Linux and Mac, simple and free.

4Videosoft is a suite that allows you to convert between different video formats, improve their quality, remove noise, extract audio, convert to 3D, etc. Its price is € 35.19.

Freemake Video Converter is a compressor and converter of video formats for Windows. It is completely free.

In addition to the images we record, ours, of the computer or any other type, there is also the possibility of creating a video using cartoons or presentations, or interleaving all these options.

Blender is a completely free program that allows you to make videos and moelado in 3D. Its possibilities are huge , from games to video editing. It is an online tool.

As a complement to Blender nation MakeHuman based primarily on human figures. Completely free.

Stykz is another free and very powerful program for Windows, Mac and Linux. Easy to use to create basic animations.

Wings 3D is an open source program to model and create 3D models. Very powerful, but somewhat complicated for the neophytes on the subject.

Web Cartoon Maker allows you to make simple drawings in an easy way. Free, simple and simple to use. 

Daz 3D is a free 3D cartoon and modeling program, but registration is required. You can also buy 3D models.

Clara.io is a completely free program to model and render in 3D online. It has a gallery of 3D models of lilbre use.

SmartBody is a free animation and character creation program. It can be used for the creation of games and animations.

Boats Animator is an open source program to create animations. Its interface is simple to use.

Pencil 2D is oriented to the creation of cartoons in the classic style. It can be used to create animations, animated GIFs or classic video games.

Synfig Studio, although free and open source is a very complete program, since in addition to its possibility, it has a large number of special effects and the possibility of synchronizing with a soundtrack.

Powtoon allows you to make presentations with animated cartoons, online. Its price is from € 16 / month, but it has a free version with a watermark and without functionalities.

With Wideo you can make cartoons online, with numerous usable templates. The cheapest version costs € 19 / month.

Animaker is a paid tool, but it allows you to make free videos of up to 2 minutes.

ScratchIt is a free tool created by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), which allows you to create movies, games and animations.

Visme is another free application. His interest is that it allows you to create all kinds of visual content from royalty-free images on the Internet.

Imageflip allows you to create an animated GIF from a video or a YouTube link. Useful when we need an animated GIF image to promote our videos.

There are many more programs, but we have focused mainly on free ones as they can be a complement to create videos on YouTube. There are other programs, many of them professional and paid, talk about all would exceed what is a post about videos, since it would be more specific to a specific one on this topic, however you can check other programs in this link about animation programs .

One way to make videos is to record presentations. In these we can combine videos , insert images, animated GIFs, videos, sounds or text, even as creating a small movie or documentary, using screen recorders, which we have previously seen.

PowerPoint is the most used program for presentations. It is integrated into the Microsoft Office office suite. The latest versions of the program allow recording of the presentation in video format. There are also possibilities to convert a powerpoint to video format .

In SlidesCarnival , a web in continuous growth, you have hundreds of free PowerPoint templates and Google Slides themes for your presentations.

Google Presentations is a free program of the giant Google to make presentations. They can be saved online and shared.

Impress is the presentation creator of the free office suite LibreOffice. It allows to save the presentations in PowerPoint format.

Presentation WPS is similar to the previous one, from the free WPS Office form package. It also allows you to save presentations in PowerPoint format.

KnovioIt is a tool to create presentations that combine these with videos. In the free version you can combine 3 videos or presentations with a maximum duration of 7 minutes.

Prezi is another tool widely used to make presentations in a very dynamic way. It is very simple to use. S can convert PowerPoint presentations to Prezi . It is paid, with monthly subscription, but can be used free for a week.

Genial.ly is a tool that seeks to create presentations with fun and attractive animations. There are several prices, but the free version is quite attractive.

Sway is a free Microsoft program that allows you to create and share reports, presentations, personal stories, etc.

Canva Presentaciones is a free program that tries to compete with PowerPoint. It has a large number of templates and designs.

VideoScribe is an online tool to create presentations from videos. Requires monthly subscription per month

When creating your videos for YouTube you should keep in mind that using copyrighted third-party materials is not legal, you can have complaints that can reach the close of your video or channel. But can I use any fragment only as a sample? If it is with that exclusive intention and not another, you would be protected by the right of appointment, which depends on the legislation of each country. In Spain, it can only be used for teaching or research purposes, by appointment or for analysis, comment or critical judgment, indicating the source and name of the author, it must be a small fragment that cannot be considered as a simulated reproduction and substantial of the content of the work. The legislation of other countries is similar. If in doubt, it is best not to take risks to avoid problems.

There is a lot of material that can be used for your videos completely legally. However, its conditions of use must be clearly read. If so stipulated, authorship must be recognized, it is fair and legal.

On the other hand, it does not mean that everything that appears free or without copyright means that it really is, so it is convenient to access and read its conditions of use.

Videeezy offers free HD and 4K videos, some of high quality. In the license you can check their conditions. Most require attribution, but allow commercial use. If you do not want to attribute you have to buy them, being the price of one 5 to 10 dollars. You do not need registration to download the videos.

The famous Pixabay image sharing site also allows you to share high quality videos, in 4K and HD. Pexels

videos are free of copyright, no registration or attribution is required. In Videvo there are completely free videos and others in which you have to attribute their authorship. They are sorted by categories. POND5

It has a huge amount of videos, images and sounds, free and paid. Requires prior registration.

Vimeo is the well-known video platform, but it also has the possibility to download free videos in HD. Some are completely free (CC0 license).

Coverr is ideal for creating headers, since they are short, very expressive and completely free videos.

Distill is another platform similar to Coverr. Upload HD videos every 10 days for personal and commercial use.

X stock video allows you to search videos with filters according to the theme.

Fancy Footage is ideal for cinematographic videos or to create your own shorts. The only problem is that the page is no longer updated.

VidsplayIt allows you to download a huge amount of videos, sorted by categories, which you can previously view.

IgniteMotion has many videos in mp4 and quicktime, many of them ideal for science or science fiction.

Movie Tools allows you to download many videos with effects, in wmv and mp4 format.

CuteStockFootage allows you to download free videos ideal for use as effects or transitions.

Flixpress is ideal for creating video intros. The problem is that you must first register. Beachfront B-Roll pretends to the Blogger platform. It has very well made videos sorted by categories. Openfootage

It contains numerous videos, to highlight those of panoramas and landscapes, and animations, free and paid.

Stock Footage For Free is completely free and registration is not required. There are many videos of Nature and landscapes.

The well-known Internet Archive web archive also allows you to download a huge amount of videos. You have to read your license beforehand, because there are all kinds.

Open Video Project is a collection of videos that can be downloaded for free. In theory they are freely shared and can be used, but the issue of licenses does not appear clearly.

Free Animal Video , as the name implies, is a page to download free videos of animals.

Detonation FilmsIt is another specialized page of free videos, in this case of explosions.

Wikimedia Videos is the Wikipedia page where the videos are hosted.

Motion Background contains many videos, some very abstract, so they are good for introductions. 

Free Video Footage allows you to download many videos, with many three-dimensional animations.

There are more websites where you can get free videos, you can check them on 25 websites to download free videos free of rights and on 20 platforms to download free videos .

If we are going to have to use several images to make a video, they should be completely free, that we should not attribute authorship, because if not, the credits will be very bulky, unless the image is worth it, we can even raise the possibility of buying it.

One way to search for free images is with Google Advanced Image Search . In rights of use we filter why they can be used or shared freely .

Pixabay is one of the best known image banks. They are free, but you have to check if recognition is necessary.

Picjumbo has a premium option, but the free one is really good.

UnsplashIt contains many completely free images sorted by categories.

Magdeleine contains many photos and of very high quality. Your license appears in each photo. Completely in English.

All Pexels photos are completely free, which makes this site very interesting.

StockSnap has completely free photos with CC0 license, sorted by categories and with excellent quality.

If you are looking for food or food photos, you will love Foodiesfeed . Ideal for videos or feed blogs.

Stock Up is a search engine that allows you to search among more than 25,000 royalty-free photos. AllTheFreeStock is a similar search page.

MorgueFile has a huge amount of completely free photos for commercial use. The only problem you have is that the search is not very simple.

A network of Canadian photographers maintains Pix's Life by offering high quality photos.

Open photo contains a large number of free photos organized in categories.

New Old Stock offers old and vintage photos, of not very good quality, but very difficult to obtain by other means.

Stockvault contains a large number of photos and free vector files. Some are paid, such as Shutterstock.

PicographyIt has a completely free photo bank, with CC0 license and they are also high resolution. Many of them are from Nature.

Wikimedia Commons is the image page of the well-known Wikipedia online encyclopedia.

There are more image banks, and you can check them in The 51 Best Free Image Banks to download .

Music in a video can be decisive for its success. You can properly accompany a video or we like the video because we like music. It is very important that it is in its right volume, is not very strident and does not cover the voice of the youtuber, aspect that sometimes spoils a video.

It is very common that many free music download pages also contain sounds.

Audionity emerged as an alternative to the SGAE. There are different types of licenses.

Escena Digital is a website of a Spanish project where you can download free music and voices. There are different licenses.

SoundcloudIt is a community to share music, loops and sounds. It requires registration, but it is worth it, since the content is huge and free, in theory, but you have to be careful in this regard.

You can use the music of Audionatix commercially , but mentioning its authorship.

The YouTube channel itself offers free music for your videos, some completely free and others with a Creative Commons license. It is also offered by the Vimeo channel , although the latter is not all free and you will also have to register.

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