Are you looking for a free or free ish video editor that's online so you can
access it anywhere, no matter what computer you're on? Well, this guy did the
research! And found the best 4: Headliner, Clipchamp Create,
Wave Video and Adobe Spark. If you want to know why this guy likes it and
why you should consider them keep watching!
I'm Alex with Your Local Studio. I'm Evan! And we are excited to
share the research on using online video editors. Now, why would you
use an online editor versus "just, hey let me download a program and have on my
computer"? Right! So, a lot of these online tools are very much the same, the focus
seems to be more in creating simpler videos fasters. A lot of them have social
media specific use cases and features and that sort of thing, and they're not
as robust as say the stuff you download to your hard drive, like FinalCut or
Premiere Pro or one of those, those kind of things. And some of them are geared
more towards teams or brands, so if you've got, let's say, a team of people working
in a company that you work with and that you're creating video content on a
regular basis, some of these options might be might be good so you can
collaborate all live. Interesting, ok! So tell me these four again...
Yes, Headliner, Clipchamp Create, Wave video, and Adobe spark. Starting with Headliner!
It's the first one because it's totally free! Uh! I like
free! We're not sure why, but it's free, for now. Hopefully it'll stay
that way. So Headliner is really great, I've noticed, for creating social content
so if you're creating square stuff on specific social platforms, you know, so if
you upload your own video or if you're working with something, the timeline
it'll automatically generate captions for you. Uh! Captions are so important for social media.
Yes, so it saves you the trouble of having to go to some other outside site
to get like an SRT file, you can just kind of do it in there. I tried it,
not quite perfect. I didn't have to do a lot of like tweaking but so the concept
of having to do it all in just one spot was really helpful. As soon as thing
you're able to bring all the things you need into one place efficiency goes up.
And then auto captions probably gets you 80%, 85% there,
then you have to fix the rest. That's a nice feature though. Something I did really
like is this was a seemed like the only place that's offering this, those
audio and visualization videos. So if you may have seen on social
platforms people who upload something like a podcast file from like a clip
from their podcast and it's like a static, like photo or something and
there's a little audio bleed for a rap thing going. So this has a template for
creating that you know automatically so you just upload your audio file and
it'll create the visualization you can customize "My color" but what the waves
look like. So if you're creating that kind of content, videoish
content from podcasts clips, this kind of has the solution for you
free! That is so probably, we keep seeing that requests all the times, like
I just want I have this soundbite I want to put it on Facebook or LinkedIn and
you can't just upload an audio file make it into a visual visualization free
using this tool. That's right! Really cool. So definitely great. Also, like I
said, it's free, so definitely worth checking out. Ok, next one from that is
called Clipchamp Create. This is a freemium or free ish, which you know
what that means. This is very simple and easy to use, very similar to
iMovie or FinalCut, in terms of the look, like the dark grey and the
purple highlighting colors and stuff. So it's very similar but everything is pretty
much laid out, so if you've never touched an editing platform in your life you can
easily just jump right in and figure stuff out. So it's pretty intuitive
controls! Pretty simple! Ok. And most of these
premium online tools have access to some sort of stock footage
library, so you can just immediately pull a quick poll, I need a file here that I
can put text on or music or something like that. So, or if you want to
create content that's specifically your an exclusively stock stuff only, with
like text overlays and that kind of thing, this is kind of an easy solution
to make that kind of stuff. You don't have to like jump over to this site and
this other site, this file, you upload this file. It all
integrates. Again, saving you time, if that's the type of video that you
want to create. Simple, very simple stuff. So the kicker here is there is a
freemium model, so if you want to try it out you can do it for free and those
features are very limited. So we're talking like watermark on your video of
the company, we're talking like you can only export it's really small, small
resolution. So not that great quality! So if you're using it for business it's
really just to try it out. You're not gonna stay on that freemium. Exactly!
But you can test it to explore it! Yes, so this one starts at $6 a month
for a subscription and it kind of has different
tiers, depending on what you need and all of them are like this. There is all
kind of like feature based and it unlocks different features for different
tiers. So if you're interested in these kind of tools it really is going to
pend upon what features you need. If you need to access to a lot of stock stuff
because you use that kind of stuff on a regular basis, some of the tiers include
the unlimited downloads of stock stuff. It's kinda like the higher priced
one but if you need that there's that option. Or if you just want you know
basic minimal stuff but a higher resolution quality, then there's like a
cheaper of tier that allows you to do that. $6 dollars! Yeah, roughly. Roughly.
Nice! Next option this option is Wave Video,
very similar, another freemium model, simple to use interface, pretty
much breaks down for you. So again if you've never touched a video editing
platform or software this is like the goodie for dummies to you jump right in
and get to work. That's helpful! The thing I like about this is there is
a hold kind of tabs across the top of the interface that are social media
specific, so if you knew where you wanted your video to live, which platform:
Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram. And if you want a specific size like square,
vertical or whatever, you just click one button and kind of format your timeline
in your video and everything for you. Almost sounds like Canvas for
photos and stuff you can just...Yes, same concept but for video. It would
automatically resize and reformat the video. Wow! I ain't really trapped myself so you
might if you were to do that maybe to do some tweaking if you hadn't working with
a clip or something that's not quite format that correctly. But the
point is that if you're creating content regularly for social media, for
specific platforms and specific sizes this is a really easy way to just like
one-click, get what you need, with a lot of other it's like software specific
editors on your hard drive, those kind of tools, you're gonna have to do that
manually. So you create a project, you kind of figure out the size and
dimensions and you're gonna have to kind of line everything up so this saves you
a lot of time, if this program is does it for you. Exactly!
Good, something to consider! Seems to be aimed more at brands and
small to mid-size teams. How so? There's a way to like add watermarks, but
your own watermark. So if you have a brand logo you can kind of add that to
their video. Kind of you can create a brand template so for your team
to be able to quickly create something and automatically that branded template
can come on. That kind of stuff.
So if you're working with a team of people and maybe you're not the only
person doing video but a couple different people are, then maybe Wave is
a better option for you. I've noticed Clipchamp creates more like it was aimed
at individuals, more so than brands. So then if you're have you're working with
a team then maybe Wave might be a better solution. And this
one the other one is free ish and then it starts at $39 a month for
subscriptions. So a little bit more than that $6 dollars or whatever. But
some nice features! Yes, sure. And then we'll close with the last
one which is Adobe Spark, which is part of their whole Creative Cloud
membership thing. So if you have one of those, you're already
already paying for it. Already in the program!
Exactly, try it out! Very similar to the other ones and it also has access
to stock footage because this is Adobe, so their Adobe stock is kind of
built into that, which was pretty cool. The thing I liked about this was
very interesting way of creating video is it had templates for specific types of
videos, so let's say you going to make an educational video there's an option you
click on that's what I'm making thing and then it would just open up this kind
of like a most like a storyboard than timeline it would give you suggestions
on what to put where. So it's almost helping guide you through the process of
creating a video, that template and then you just plug in your content
throughout it. So it could save a lot of time if you're making videos like that,
you can also do it manually so it's not like you have to follow that
template. But I did like the emphasis on on storytelling, which is kind of where
they start you with, it's kind of what story are you telling, that's how
figures out the the template and stuff like that. So if you weren't trying to
create a specific video like type of video, trying to get a specific
message across through that video then Adobe Spark makes it really easy to kind
of walk you through that process and get there and create a final finished video.
Nice, guided process to the end. Again, the whole purpose that is trying to speed up,
make it more efficient and get it done faster. So yeah, I'm definitely
sensing the trend here among these four different online video editors, if you
need to get it done very quickly and efficiently and you're probably
producing on a regular timeline and they're not that complex videos, there's
a reason to have an online video editor or maybe a collaborative workspace to
jump on other people or multiple people using this, doesn't matter what computer
they're on, there's not just one editing computer that someone has access to huge
stock footage libraries, you can just immediately pull in you
don't have to buy download and then upload it or pull in. And then also for
social media purpose. That's probably the biggest one. Reformatting it to
square, vertical, horizontal, whatever those other formats are into this
different places immediately all done for you. There's some power behind this!
Yes. Now if you want to do more robust things of major effects or keying or
other things are multiple having lots of multi layer camera or multi cameras,
this is not your correct for you. I'd stick with the big boys: FinalCut, Premiere Pro,
that kind of stuff. But some powerful features in these four
online video editors. Awesome! So if there is an online video editor
that you like or a thing that we didn't mention, leave a comment below, let us
know what it is and why you like it so we can look at. Thanks so much
guys for spending time with us!