Cheap (or free), easy-to-use editing software

Thirith

I'll be doing a short film with friends for a local quiz. It won't be anything fancy: the video will consist of 30-40 one-second snippets recorded with an iPhone, I might record some sound separately, and if I can add some kind of simple '70s-style filter, all the better.

What would people recommend? I've done some work in the past with Adobe Premiere (10+ years ago) and Vegas Movie Studio (about 3-4 years ago), but really just simple amateur stuff. I'd most likely need the software for a couple of days only, so I could imagine getting a one-month subscription if necessary, but obviously I wouldn't be against free software. However, I'd rather pay a little something than have a watermark displayed on the resulting video.

localhjay

For what you are describing, getting full fledged software is probably excessive. I do a lot of video editing on my phone these days. I don't know if the app is available on iPhone but, I use an app called VideoShow on android and it does everything you need and is free (ad supported) or the ad free version is a few bucks. For instance to remove the watermark you watch a 30 second ad. I've used it years now. If your phone can handle it, it can render at high resolutions and frame rate.

Thirith

Thank you for that suggestion. I have to admit that I prefer doing this kind of thing on a PC, but that may be because I've never done it on a portable device.

Feral

Don't take this as a strong recommendation because I don't have much experience with it and I don't do much video editing

But consider Davinci Resolve

Thirith

Cheers, I might give that one a try.

Caedwyr

For something that you are doing for a short period, it might just be easiest to grab a demo version of the software of your choice and just use that.

djmitchella

Davinci resolve (free version) is what my kid uses to make/edit videos for his school projects, and as far as I can tell he hasn't found anything that it can't do yet.

Thirith

Caedwyr wrote: »

For something that you are doing for a short period, it might just be easiest to grab a demo version of the software of your choice and just use that.

Generally a good idea, but the problem with this seems to be that demo versions tend to have watermarks, and that's something I want to avoid.