If you're planning to create videos of your family and friends or get started on YouTube, there are free video editors that can help you produce high-quality videos. In these top five, I will count down the absolute best free video editing software for Windows Mac and Linux they all include professional quality features with no time restrictions or forced watermarks.
5 Best Free Video Editing Software (No Watermark) for Windows, Mac, & Linux
1. DaVinci Resolve
Initially released in 2004 the free edition of this video editor includes so many professional features it's amazing that it's still free some of the key features include multitrack timeline editing, 4k, various trimming tools, multi-cam editing, along with a good amount of cool transitions and effects.
Making DaVinci Resolve even better is that fusion effects are now built in to create film quality visual effects and motion graphics. Their wide selection of color correction tools is some of the best of any Video Editor free or paid.
When you launch DaVinci Resolve you have the choice to continue working on a project or start a new one by selecting new project< give it a name< click on create< to import all of the files you will need for your project make sure that media pool is selected< right-click in the media pool section and select important media.
Major Features include:
- Dual timeline for quick navigation, cutting, and trimming
- A dedicated trim interface that gives you the ability to edit in minute detail
- Intelligent auto-editing that syncs audio and visual clips for you
- Built-in tools for picture-in-picture effects, retiming, stabilization, dynamic zoom, text, and audio
- Facial recognition detects faces in your clips and automatically creates bins based on the people in each shot
- High-quality motion estimation speed changes and frame rate conversions to easily and realistically speed up or slow-down clips
Davinci Resolve is available for Windows Mac and Linux.
2. Shotcut
Just like an open shot, it's completely free and open-source it supports most of the popular audio and video file formats with export resolutions up to 4k. The video effects include transitions, color correction, and various filters. The timeline allows for multiple tracks and adding Clips is easy. The interface is somewhat clunky and looks outdated but once you figure out some of the basics it becomes very easy to use.
To begin a project select your folder< give it a name< select your video mode< click on start. To add clips to your project just drag a clip from any folder and drop it in the main window. Then left-click and drag that clip down to the timeline.
Major Features include:
- Support for the latest audio and video formats via FFmpeg, the leading multimedia framework
- Native timeline editing, which allows users to import video files directly into their project file rather than a media library
- Multi-format timeline for mixing and matching resolutions and frame rates within a project
- Advanced audio filters like balance, bass and treble, bandpass filters, compressor, and more
Shotcut is available for Windows Mac and Linux.
3. Hitfilm express
This powerful free editor is packed full of features to create professional-quality projects. It includes more than 400 effects and presets, advanced cutting tools, audio, and video filters, output resolutions of up to 4k. And a whole lot more.
Hitfilm Express is available for Windows and Mac.
I highly advise checking out the various tutorials available online.
You can install DaVinci Resolve on all major operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Their free Edition includes just about every feature most people would ever need their paid version which they call studio costs $299, it supports multi-user collaboration with additional 3d tools and effects.
Major Features include:
- Professional-grade video editing with motion tracking, color pickers, and cropping tools
- Composite shot enhancements that allow you to animate two separate shots together for surreal video effects
- An auto-stabilizer to make shaky footage look smooth
- Unlimited video and audio timeline-track creation
- An adaptive trimmer that lets you re-trim your clips after adding them to the timeline
- Ability to copy a group of attributes from one clip and apply them directly to another or to a whole project
- Audio mixer for fine-tuning sound for professional-quality output
- Various transition options, such as push, zoom and dissolve
4. Open shot
This free and open-source video editor is great for beginners with less of a learning curve than some of the others mentioned in this article. This easy-to-use video editor includes a ton of features some of those include video and audio effects, transitions, keyframe animations, and supports most file types. Best of all it's completely free the user interface is very well designed.
When you go to export your project it supports multiple resolutions up to 4k. Openshot does contain bugs that could make it crash, but it's been continuously updated, making it more stable.
Open shot is now available for all major operating systems including Linux Mac and windows.
Major Features include:
- Unlimited layers for watermarks, background videos, and audio tracks
- Customizable title-card templates
- Drag-and-drop functionality for easily adding video, audio, or image files
- Digital video effects, including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, and chroma key compositing for green-screen effects
- Powerful key-frame animation capabilities for creating animated videos
Open Shot is available for Windows Mac, Linux, and ChromeOS
5. Lightworks
This nonlinear editing program has been used in many Hollywood productions, including Wall Street's wolf, Pulp Fiction, Mission Impossible, and many others. Light works have both a free and pro version thankfully their free edition includes most of the key features most people would ever need including video capture, professional-level color correction, and allows for the import of most file formats.
What keeps this program from being lower on this list is that the export formats are limited to MPEG-4 with a max resolution of 720p with the free addition of light works.
Major Features include:
- This program is powerful and has a steep learning curve if you want to try it out they have excellent video tutorials on their website
- High-quality simple trim functions for fast and precise video editing
- Speed optimization, letting you continue to edit while importing new content
- Multicam editing for syncing clips from multiple cameras
- Real-time team project sharing with full control over which user has editing access
- Easy sharing of videos with fast export to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Instagram
- Support for a wide range of video formats
LightWorks is available for Windows Mac, Linux, and ChromeOS
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