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Grogster

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Posted: 07:55am 19 Feb 2025
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Hi all.  

I am looking for a simple video editor, that just allows me to drop video files into the timeline, and perhaps add some captions or text on top.

Nothing fancy at all, but I would need the finished product rendered as a SINGLE output video file.

Can anyone suggest anything?

Free is good(not wanting any kind of fancy effects), but will also happily look at shareware that does what I want.
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Mixtel90

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Posted: 08:24am 19 Feb 2025
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I think Windows 11 has Clipchamp built in. It's also available for Windows 10.
At least it's free (no watermark up to 1080P and with a some limitations).
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Martin H.

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  Grogster said  Hi all.  

I am looking for a simple video editor, that just allows me to drop video files into the timeline, and perhaps add some captions or text on top.

Nothing fancy at all, but I would need the finished product rendered as a SINGLE output video file.

Can anyone suggest anything?

Free is good(not wanting any kind of fancy effects), but will also happily look at shareware that does what I want.

I have had good experiences with kdenlive .Even without much experience and free of charge.
Edited 2025-02-19 19:19 by Martin H.
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PhenixRising
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Posted: 11:00am 19 Feb 2025
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  Grogster said  Hi all.  

I am looking for a simple video editor, that just allows me to drop video files into the timeline, and perhaps add some captions or text on top.

Nothing fancy at all, but I would need the finished product rendered as a SINGLE output video file.


Wanted the same thing awhile ago and so consulted with my son who works for big-media. At first, I thought he'd misunderstood my simple needs when he recommended DaVinci Resolve because it looked a bit big and intimidating.

Turned-out to be child's play  
 
cosmic frog
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Posted: 01:06pm 19 Feb 2025
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I use Capcut

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stanleyella

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Posted: 03:53pm 19 Feb 2025
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vlc is free
 
Mixtel90

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It's not a video *editor* though. Their editor VLMC isn't available yet (only as source code).
Mick

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vegipete

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Posted: 04:40pm 19 Feb 2025
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Another vote for kdenlive.

There's a bit of learning, but it's easy enough to get nice results.
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Grogster

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Posted: 05:18am 21 Feb 2025
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Thanks very much for all those posts, chums.  
I appreciate it - several things to research now.  
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