Editing Software looking for better editing software that's not expensive

[BensTechLab]

I always use Virtual Machines for all my work, and some programs won't run in a VM which limits the choice, which is why I ended up with VideoPadEditor

@Alby Tastic VideoPadEditor works in a Virtual Machine? It doesn't sound like it from the name.

FYI, I do this kind of stuff at my day job (remote access to virtual machines) and all of the mainstream video editors will work in a VM just wonderfully (even "in the cloud" like AWS, Azure, GCP). The key is that you want to pass a GPU into that virtual machine for performance. You can do this at home if you are familiar with virtual machines (I use ProxMox for my hypervisor) and in the cloud you just have to pay for it, not cheap, but you also don't need to know anything. This is how the "big shops" do their editing these days, all in the cloud in VMs - all distributed work.

Anyway, "for now" I'm editing on a local machine. In the future I may do a YouTube video of setting up a remote access video editing workstation so that I can sub-out my video editing without giving them my raw media files. That will be a fun project!

 

[Alby Tastic]

Thanks for that, I use VirtualBox for all my machines because I'm used to it and it works well for what I do.
I use this VM, (The one I'm talking to you now on) as my digital workshop.
It contains all the editing software I use as well as my browsers, Opera and Firefox.
Most of my VMs reside on a 1TB SSD connected to my computer so they are all transportable etc.
So in that way they can easily be connected to different hosts should the need ever arise.

 

[Kindred]

I started using Wondershare Filmora recently and love it so much - you truly get your money's worth imo

 

[Ikerot]

There's also Shotcut as well if that hasn't been mentioned yet.

 

[amisclinic]

i would also recommend filmora .. Cool one..

 

[HenryBR]

I agree with Ikerot. Shotcut is a fairly good software for video editing. Plus it's free. From what I remember.

 

[eljthejod]

Davinci resolve is the best option there is. Its a free editing suite with god-tier features.

 

[The Storm is coming]

I'm using cyberlink powerdirector 365. I think the lowest price is +Γé¼4.99 a month. But using the free version currently and it's doing well so..

 

[Doug B]

As others have said, DaVinci Resolve is amazing and free. They also have a lot of free training available. IΓÇÖm signed up for a 5-day course starting June, all free.

 

[Baumi]

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