How to Choose Video Editing Software

 

A step by step guide to navigating past the marketing and towards choosing the best video editing software to suit your needs.

How to Choose Video Editing Software

The overall theme of this site started off as an effort simplify the process of how to choose video editing…

Prices and Budget

This is a more detailed page as part of the series on how to choose the best video editing software…

Making Sense of the User Interface

One of the first things you will see when you open any video editing program is of course the user…

Video File Format Compatibility

Video File Import and Export Choices As I mentioned in the basic editing functions post in this series on how…

Basic Editing Functions

The software you will be looking at for home video editing goes by the name of Non-Linear Editing (NLE). NLE…

Number of Tracks Available for Editing

This feature of modern consumer editing software is somewhat prone to marketing hype and useless "gee whizz" promotion. Don't be…

Video Transitions – Much Ado About Nothing

One of the questions regarding video editing for the home user that I most often see on the various user…

Video Editing Special Effects and Filters

If there is any area of video editing where you can go hog wild and create all sorts of crazy…

Audio Editing Features

The history of audio editing capability within video editing software products was such that in the past I never even…

Video Rendering Encoding Features

All non-linear video editing software handles the video and audio assets you are using to create your project in a…