So what is the best video editing software for Mac or PC? In this
video I'm gonna talk about the best video editing software for MAC. If you
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with our latest videos right so in this video I want to cover the different
areas of the best video editing software because I know for you it may be that
your budget is quite low at the moment you may be getting into video editing
for the first time or you may be looking at it at a professional level maybe
you've used the basic stuff and now you're ready to move on to the next
level so I'm going to break the video down into a few different areas really
into budget-friendly into feature set and kind of like how
easy the programs are to use so if you've got a Mac the clear option I
think for free is iMovie this is included with every mac free of charge
it's made by Apple it's like a cut-down version of Final Cut Pro 10 and it's
actually very very good you've got multiple video tracks multiple audio
tracks there's effects in there there's titles
you can upload directly to YouTube and it's very very easy to use you can even
import footage very easily from your iPhone now if you're moving up a level
and you you think well you know I want to do more than that I really want to
take filmmaking seriously and video editing seriously and maybe you want to
get into the industry you can actually get free versions of avid media composer
it's called Avid Media Composer first and I'll put a link in the description
below now avid media composer I think it's one of those video editing
software's where it feels like it's being left behind it feels to me like
it's just being used by the older generation but trust me any professional
level studio or film studio you go in most of them will still be still be
using me to compose it it's still one of the best-selling keyboards here at
editors keys as well so it just shows that the audience is still there
next it's a DaVinci Resolve if you want to do a little bit of color correction
if you want to get more into that area and you want to do something a little
bit more complex than iMovie DaVinci Resolve is also free and it's incredible
that software like this is available for free what I would say the pros and cons
are for DaVinci Resolve is that obviously the biggest Pro is that it's
free it looks very nice if you're coming from
maybe final car or even iMovie it has that same kind of UI it has that same
kind of theme so just from a user usability point of view I think it makes
a little bit easier the Media Composer to jump into but with that said it has
so many pages now it has an ingest it has a cut page as a edit page it has
stuff the color correction stuff for audio correction so it can be seriously
overwhelming I mean if you want to do this as a full time job get it because
you know there's nothing that the program can't really do for free so
that's DaVinci Resolve we'll put a link in the description below if you want to
check that one out now there's two proper serious
recommendations and if you can Mac then Final Cut Pro 10 is often the most
obvious choice the advantages of Final Cut Pro 10 is that it's made by Apple so
it works pretty flawlessly with your Mac there's very little render time it's
very very fast it's a very easy to use especially if you've been using iMovie
which is free and you jump over to Final Cut now it's all recently not a lot of
people know about this but there is a free trial of Final Cut Pro 10 hidden
away on the Apple website I found it for you and I've put the link below in the
description so make sure you check that out if you want to use Final Cut Pro 10
for free for 30 days if you do want to buy it it's roughly 299 pounds here in
the UK the price does vary depending on your region but the beauty of Final Cut
Pro 10 at that price is that the updates are free so you don't have to pay for a
new version every single year and really for it sounds like a lot that amount of
money but for a video editing package that you can use year-on-year
professionally and it has everything that you could possibly need in it for
most film editors it's very very good value for money I believe you know it's
very very good its limitations are the compared to the Adobe Creative Cloud
which I'm going to recommend next is that the integrations it has aren't
quite as good as premieres it's maybe not used as much as premiere in the
industry and if you have a job and then you know you're used to using a Mac and
Final Cut and then you get a job at a studio and they say right we're on
premiere on a PC you may struggle to make that jump there is quite some
differences between final cotton premiere which you know quite notable
this is often best to stick with one rather than jumping backwards and
forwards I mean if you can edit you'll know roughly what to do but it's just
finding your way through menus and things like that which make it very
difficult so that's final cut Adobe Premiere is
probably what I would recommend for a lot of serious video editors just simply
because you can you get it on a Mac or PC which is great if you ever decide to
move back to a PC or to a PC for the first time and it has great integration
with programs like Photoshop with Adobe After Effects if you want to do some
additional special effects we can use it directly with the link within
after-effects you just kind of right-click the clip and it can go
straight in and pull it back out if you're cleaning up audio you can right
click the audio and take it in to audition clean up and it just comes back
into Premiere perfectly and what I would say the downsides are is that it's a
little bit slower than Final Cut just out of the box you know a premier
handles graphic color graphics cards a little bit better so depending on your
system it may work better but generally you've got a MacBook Pro you may find
Final Cut renders and works a little bit quicker just out of the box secondly is
the price so Final Cut you have to check out this big lump sum and you've got the
you know the software there premiere has a few different options you can pay for
on a monthly basis which for some people the cash flow is potentially quite good
if you're only paying it off for $50 a month for the entire Creative Cloud
you've got more tools at your disposal and you know if you're getting a job
every month the cash flow may be better for you as I'm an accounting purpose if
your student and anyone use premier there's a whole heap of student
discounts where you can get the entire Creative Cloud package either one app or
the entire package usually if they're like more than 50% off but in terms of
the editing stuff it's it's about as difficult to use as final cut but
there's some great training out there so if you want to learn premier we have
some all final cut if you want to learn an EVO of those we have some great
tutorials on this channel if you specifically want to learn premier check
out the premier gal channel she's a good friend of ours and she can teach you
premier from start to finish so let me know what are you filming what are you
editing where do your final videos want to end up leave a comment in the section
below here and I'll get back to every single question because as I say
sometimes the the best video editing software and they not be the best video
editing software for you but let me know I'd love to see your thoughts and then
watching the next set of videos this is for PC and Mac and iOS we've got the
whole series here so whatever you're using will help you find the best video
editing software see you in the next one