Founder Danielle Fong says she built custom video editing software after systems engineer Yacine joked about writing his own
Yacine sought software recommendations while starting a YouTube channel.
Many users strongly recommend DaVinci Resolve as free, easy, and professional-grade while others warn against building custom editors or using Adobe due to time and cost risks.
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alright. day 3 of being a youtuber. what's the best video editing software out there? surely i'm not going to have to write one myself right?
@yacineMTB I love Final Cut. CapCut is good. Davinci is the best technically but it’s a lot more to learn
alright. day 3 of being a youtuber. what's the best video editing software out there? surely i'm not going to have to write one myself right?
I highly advise learning to edit yourself.
None of the OSS options are good enough for full edits without slowing yourself down massively. I love ffmpeg and losslesscut but I still do the real edit in FCPX
CapCut and FCPX have a magnetic timeline flow that makes flying through edits way easier. I can do an hour long video in 40 minutes.
I do not have any videos on this sadly, but I talk about it a lot on here. You really just got to pick a program and spend a few days learning the hotkeys.
iJustine has INCREDIBLE FCPX pro tip vids that helped me a lot
@kentcdodds Falling in love with editing is a big part of why I think my channel worked out
Can I get to help you get more enjoyment from it?
@theo interesting. i'm going to use openshot because it's open source
@yacineMTB I love Final Cut. CapCut is good. Davinci is the best technically but it’s a lot more to learn
@doodlestein thats' what i've done so far but i need an interactive UX tool for me to watch play back and stuff.
nevermind there are some pretty good open source ones out there
@yacineMTB DaVinci Resolve
@theo if i'm going to fit in video editing into my insane schedule i am going to need to either hire or really really streamline my process
@theo do you have any videos up that describe your video editing autism skill level? i want to learn
@theo interesting. i'm going to use openshot because it's open source
@theo @yacineMTB davinci is very easy to learn though
one of the best apps ever
not without bugs of course
but damn it's good
@yacineMTB @doodlestein Been using Remotion so far for exactly this, highly suggest: https://www.remotion.dev/docs
@yacineMTB just prompt codex with hyperframes on the video
Premier Pro is the best paid overall but Davinci Resolve is also great and FREE but everyone I know that try’s davinci that daily’s premier pro inevitably goes back to premier pro. Also Adobe fucking suck the life blood out of you with shoving their creative suite down your throat.
Best!
@yacineMTB hahahaha ya know that's what i ended up doing
alright. day 3 of being a youtuber. what's the best video editing software out there? surely i'm not going to have to write one myself right?
@yacineMTB
@yacineMTB yes, you're going to write your own shit and make a video series of the process. you know that's what's going to happen.
@yacineMTB After using Vegas for 10 years I moved to Premier. After using Premier for a decade I moved low level projects to CapCut and use Premier for high quality edits.
I hate to say it, but it's easy and the render times are fast, regardless of hardware.
@yacineMTB I saw a good tool with a timeline recently. I'll see if I can find it. It's open source.
@yacineMTB wrap that shit and sell it
@yacineMTB What's your channel name? I wanna follow