 Welcome back fellow techies. Today's video is something different. It's the tech talks. Episode 2. And today we're going to be talking about video editing software. But which one should we use? There's so many out there, and so many do all sorts of different things. Well, we're here to have a discussion about them today. Well, we have some free ones, we have some expensive ones, and we have some ones that just do some basic editing and some basic techniques. Some that work on PC, some that work on Mac, some that work on both. I'll be giving a top five list on the softwares and which one should you use and which one's interesting standard. The first one we're going to talk about today is iMovie. iMovie is an Apple based free software that comes with all Apple products. It comes with Macs, iPhones, iPads, etc. It's perfect to edit on the fly on your iPad or on your iPhone. You can edit with pictures. You can push images and videos from your phone to your iPad to your computer using iCloud. It all communicates very well together. It's a basic bit of software. It does everything you need to do. You can add title screens, transitions, music. You can add themes. You can create storyboards. You can do all sorts of stuff in iMovie. It's very easy to work around and it makes it very simple to edit films. The next one we're going to be looking at is Windows Movie Maker. Now, Windows Movie Maker is a PC application only, but with issues. Now, with Windows 10 coming out, Windows Movie Maker is no longer available for download for Windows 10. It only works on older versions of Windows. Now, instead, Microsoft have tried to implement the movie editing softwares in the Photo app. Now, a Photo app can be found in Windows 10, but by searching it in the taskbar at the bottom, Photos. In Photos, you can make and create videos and music. You can add text to it. You can add motions. You can add filters. You can do 3D effects. You can do all sorts of different editing techniques. I've tried to use it. It's a bit complicated to get your head around because it's just a Photo app. Basically, you can make PowerPoint slides and all sorts with it. So, I don't know if it works better with still images than film. So, it's one to try out. Obviously, it comes free with a Windows machine. So, it's something to try out at least as a free bit of software. The next one is Adobe Premiere Pro. Now, Premiere works on Mac and PC, but it comes at a cost. That cost being for all the applications, it's $49.94 per month, inclusive of VAT. Or, you can just buy the Premiere Pro package itself at $19.97 per month, inclusive of VAT. Now, if you were to do that, it's every month, a continuous subscription every month to use the software. So, you need to make sure that you're using it to the full potential. I tend to use it quite a lot during video editing if I'm doing a bit more of an advanced edit. Simple edits, I would just quickly smack them up in iMovie, but if I want to do something a bit more advanced with some proper transitions and timings and everything like that, I would use either Premiere Pro or Final Cut. Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the industry standard video editing softwares out there. It allows you to edit with various tracks. You can do layers, you can do cuts, you can do fades, you can do all sorts of transitions. It's basically a highest spec version of iMovie. You can put two screens, you can have one playing this video, you can have one doing your editing screen. You can do all sorts of stuff in Premiere, which you can do in iMovie, it's just a lot more advanced in Premiere. The next one we're going to go on to is Premiere Elements. It runs on Mac and on PC. Premiere Elements is very similar to Premiere Pro, it's just the cheaper version of Premiere Pro basically. Now, you can buy it as a one-off license instead of buying it on monthly installments. So, for the full license, it's £86.56 at the moment, including VAT. That is for one license, but again, it does exactly the same as what Premiere Pro do. It's just a cheaper full license. Premiere Elements struggles with certain formats. WMV files are supported, but yet Quicktime Player and AVCH files aren't when they are mostly to do with Apple. Now, this had may have been changed with the recent update, but they have been struggling with those certain softwares. Premiere Elements is more to facilitate uploading files to YouTube and Facebook, because it is easier and because it makes it more compressed. Premiere Elements is still pretty difficult to use for a basic bit of software. So, for beginners, it's pretty difficult to use. Now, it allows you to do pan and zoom tools with photo editing, but it's still a bit rough around the edges. So, if you were to use an Adobe package, I would recommend using Premiere Pro and not Adobe Elements. Our next bit of software is Final Cut Pro X. Final Cut Pro X is an Apple bit of software, and it is again industry standard. So, there's Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X. So, depending on which one you want to purchase or which route you want to go down, either Mac or PC, obviously, Premiere works on both. Final Cut only works on Mac. Now, Final Cut is 299.99 for the full package, and this needs to be downloaded from the App Store, or you can get pre-installed on your machine once you purchase it from Apple. Premiere Final Cut does exactly the same as what Premiere Pro does. It's an industry standard bit of software. Just like Logic and Garage Band, Final Cut is iMovie's big sister. So, whatever you can do in iMovie, you can basically do in Final Cut, but a lot more advanced. So, if you want to do different cameras, you can input different camera shows. So, you can have about four or five different camera shots, and you can flick between them by cropping, or you can flick between them by cutting them up. You can jump between shows. Now, with iMovie, you can only layer one track in. So, you can see there's already a big step up in editing techniques in the arrange window. You can do all sorts of mixes well with Logic Pro X because they're both Apple products, so they mix really well together. So, if you are looking at going audio and video editing side, then I advise potentially Final Cut and Logic for audio as well. The next bit of software we're going to just have a quick chat about is Sony Vegas. It is Mac and Windows based. Now, Sony Vegas is used by quite a lot of YouTubers out there. It is £229 to buy the license. It does exactly the same as what Premiere Pro and Final Cut do, but it doesn't have the same reputation as what those two bits of software do. It has a reputation of it's somewhat crashing every so often, or freezing, or not handling large HD files. But it still works exactly the same, and the same layout as what it does on Premiere Pro is exactly the same. I've had two screens next to each other, one using Sony Vegas and one using Premiere Pro, and they both look exactly the same. You will realise once you start using the video editing software that they're all very similar, all very similar layouts, just like a DAW or video editing are exactly the same. So, once you get used to using one, they all work out to be the same. Obviously, keyboard shortcuts are all slightly different key commands, but Sony Vegas allows you to do stabilization, a flick between different camera scenes. It allows you to do motion tracking. It's very good at editing, but it's had its flaws, and like I said, the reputation is just not as good as Premiere Pro or Final Cut. And the final bit of software we're going to be talking about today is Filmora 9, or Filmora. Now, Filmora works on both Mac and on PC. It is not free, but you can download the trial version. But the only problem with the trial version, it has a little watermark. So if you're doing a bit of free editing for university or college, and you don't mind if there's a watermark on your work, then Filmora 9 works perfectly fine, especially with the free trial. But if you can get your hands on some free bit of software, if you've got an Apple product, for example, then iMovie is brilliant for that. Obviously, it comes at a cost. The cost is $69.99. So that's for the lifetime plan. That's the most popular plan out there. They obviously do business plans, individual plans and educational plans. Now, from using it a little bit of the free trial, obviously with the watermark issue, it works just like any other video editing software. It does all the motion tracking, it does motion blur, it changes all sorts of title pages and transitions, does everything you need to do. But again, if you don't want to pay for it, you've got that issue of a watermark. If possible, I would use iMovie for a free bit of editing. Now to go into the final stage of the video. I'm just going to rank all the softwares we've talked about today in order. Now I couldn't split up between Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X, so I've marked them both as number one. They are both industry standard bit of software, so they both work the same and they both do every limitation you need them to do. I've put Sony Vegas as number two because it does exactly the same as Premiere Pro and Final Cut, but it's got the reputation of not being very good. I've marked iMovie as number three because it's simple and it's free and it comes with a lot of devices. I've marked Premiere Elements as number four because it just does more than five and six marks on our list here. I put Fillmore nine as number five because of it being the watermark. It is slightly free, but again, you do have to pay for the full package and I put MovieMaker slash photo app as number six because MovieMaker doesn't exist anymore and the photo app is a bit clunky to use. These are just my opinions obviously. If you feel they're ranked in a different order, now please leave a comment below. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like the video if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more and also ding dong that notification bell to get further updates. Thanks again. Goodbye.