• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Why use that obvious scam trap ?

    Use open source software where you have an editor that is free as in freedom AND free as in beer

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      19 hours ago

      Like Davinci? Wonderful piece of software without a doubt but OMG is it hard to pickup for someone that doesn’t want to become full time video editor…

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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        That’s only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it

        With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.

        From the standpoint who doesn’t do much coding it’s probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can’t use one of your favourite programs anymore.

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      "This app needs access to your

      • contacts
      • location
      • phone call history
      • notifications
      • your waist size
      • sleeping habits
      • your firstborn
      • your significant other
      • camera
      • microphone "
    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yep, was gonna say this, at least if you’re on linux.

      A bit of a confusing UI, but it doesn’t seem to be as resource intensive as other editors with similar feature sets.

      (Though I do have very little experience with video editors/editing in general… shotcut ‘clicked’ for me after a few hours of just brute force fucking about with no manual or anything)

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      21 hours ago

      Came here for the blender mention. I don’t edit video often, but blender is fine for basic work! (and maybe more but I’m not a good enough editor to know)

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    This stuff drives me crazy. I’m not an artisty type, but sometimes I wanna enhance a photo, enlarge something, remove a background, on layer images, so I search up “free online whatever tool,” go through the upload and whatever, and then all of a sudden it’s all “nah, I changed my mind. the thing I told you I did I’m gonna have to charge you for or make you sign up for an account or whatever.”

    If I wanted to go through all that, I’d already have a dang tool installed! Thankfully after enough of these roadblocks, I’ve got a pretty good arsenal of free utilities, though nothing to help you out here. It looks like some other comments do though!