Overview
| Product | Free | Freemium | Open-source | Freemium | Free | Free & Inbuilt |
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| High Quality Render Engine | |
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| No output limits | |
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| Paid plan | Forever free! | |
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Features
Video Editing
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| Main Interface |
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| Organize workspace | |
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| Timeline & Tracks | ||||||
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| Multiple tracks | |
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| Edit frame-by-frame | |
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| Timeline markers | |
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| Real-time preview | |
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| Timeline rendering | |
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| Smooth scrubbing | |
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| Cut, split, trim | |
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| Crop, rotate, flip | |
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| Ripple delete/edit | |
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| Upscale, downscale | |
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| Blur video | |
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| Split screen | |
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| Picture in picture | |
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| Speed ramping | |
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| Motion crop | |
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| Cut-to-the-beat | |
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| Slideshows | |
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| Stop motion | |
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| Blend mode | |
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| Filters, Effects, Templates | ||||||
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| Stock video effects | |
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| Transitions templates | |
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| Text & title templates | |
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| Color grading filters | |
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| Custom LUTs | |
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| Transitions | ||||||
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| Presets | |
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| Customize transitions | |
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| Add in bulk | |
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| Texts & Subtitles | ||||||
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| Add ass, ssa, srt | |
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| Add lyrics (.lrc) | |
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| Text templates | |
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| Title templates | |
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| Video Speed | ||||||
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| Speed up/down | |
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| Time stretch | 1000x or more [2] | |
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| Motion presets | 28+ | 21 | |
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| Pan and zoom | |
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| Cinematic opening & closing | |
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| Camera movement | |
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| Dynamic reframe | |
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| Keyframe controls | |
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| Crop | ||||||
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| Crop freely | |
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| At fixed aspect ratio | |
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| Color editing panel | |
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| Color filters | |
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| HSL secondary | |
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| Import LUTs | |
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| Masking | |
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| Wheel/Curves | |
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| Scopes | Histogram | |
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| Compositing | ||||||
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| Blend modes | 22 | |
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| Transparent channel | |
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| Chroma Key | ||||||
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| Chroma key | |
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| Fine-tune | Tolerance Smoothness | Threshold, fading, feathering | Color space delta, shape, edge, slope, operation | key softness, remove spill, invert, reveal | min brightness, chromaticityU, chromaticityV | Softness, clean-up |
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| Add keyframes | |
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| Video Fix | ||||||
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| Fix low-light | |
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| Deinterlace | |
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| Sharpen Video | ||||||
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| 1-click sharpen | |
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| Fine-tune | Amount, radius, threshold | |
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| Remove fisheye | |
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| Video Image Denoise | ||||||
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| Enable denoising | |
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| Fine-tune | Deviation, coefficient, edge threshold | Strength, smoothness | Radius, strength, threshold | |
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| Capture screen | |
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| Working on proxy | |
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Audio Editing
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| Cut, trim, split Change speed Reverse play |
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| Adjust volume/mute Fade in/out Extract audio |
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| Record voiceover | |
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| Control pitch | |
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| Change Voice | ||||||
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| Customize pitch | |
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| Reverb | |
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| Auto Pan | |
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| Denoise audio | |
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| Add noise | |
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| Audio Equalizer | ||||||
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| Graphic Equalizer | 10-band | 20-band | |
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| Parametric Equalizer | |
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| Beat detection | |
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| Onset detection | |
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| Silence detection | |
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| Manually add markers | |
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| Equalizer | |
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| Reverb | |
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| Normalize | |
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| Compressor | |
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| Measurements | ||||||
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| Audio waveform | |
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| Audio RMS meter | |
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Input & Output
Input
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| HDR 10bit | |
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| Log-GOP | |
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| HEIC | |
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| 4K/8K | |
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| Raw images | |
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Output
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| 1080p/4K without limitations | |
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| Popular formats | MP4, MKV | |
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| Audio Only | MP3 , M4A, FLAC | |
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| Snapshots | |
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| Max. FPS | 120 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 120 | 60 [3] |
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Tech Specs
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| Windows | 7/8/10/11 | 7/8/10/11 | 7/8/10/11 | 7/8/10/11 | XP SP3 to 11 | |
| Mac OS | 10.11 or later | 10.9 or later | 10.12 or later | 10.11 or later | |
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| Native support | M1/M1 Pro/Max | |
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| Languages | ||||||
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| English | |
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Support
| Learning Resources | ||||||
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| User manuals | |
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| Free tech support | |
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Ratings
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| Overall | 4.6/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 |
| Ease | 4.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 4/5 |
| Feature | 4.2/5 | 4.5/5 | 4.5/5 | 4.5/5 | 4.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Design | 4.8/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 4.5/5 |
| Support | 4.5/5 | 4.5/5 | 4/5 | 4.5/5 | 4.5/5 | 4/5 |
| More Info | VideoProc Vlogger Review | VideoPad Review | Lightworks Review | Shotcut Review | VSDC Review | iMovie Review |
Keys/Symbols
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- Not well/fully supported
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- It is a paid feature
Notes
- Time stretch: In VideoProc Vlogger, you can change the speed by dragging the edge of the clip to fit a duration without the need to know the exact percentage. It is a useful technique in video editing. Using the constant speed change option, you can speed up to 32x; with time stretch, you can go higher, such as 1000x (or lower for slowing down).
- Frame by frame editing: In VideoPad, you can zoom in the timeline to 0.001 sec, but that doesn't correspond to the frame. In this sense, you can not edit frame by frame in VideoPad.
- iMovie for macOS only exports 60fps video in 1080p.
- iMovie in the comparison is in the latest version 10.3 that requires macOS 11.5.1 or later and 3GB of available disk space. Earlier versions are still available but lack some features and stable performances.
