What does everybody use for editing videos?
Please provide Pros, Cons about your recommendation.

Thanks in advance.

Well, if you have a Mac, it comes pre-loaded with QuickTime Player which will let you trim clips and recombine them. A more robust application, iMovie is also included which will let you do all but the most sophisticated video editing.

I confess that I haven't done any serious video editing for some time, but when I did, I used Apple's Final Cut Pro which was then in its infancy. It did pretty much everything. I liked it because I could edit audio as well as video all within the one application.

OK. Maybe I will clarify. I am looking for Windows applications. Adobe is pretty expensive. I know it would be really fast for me to use because I am already really good at using Lightroom but it is just really expensive.

You can have a look at this survey: https://www.cyberlink.com/blog/the-top-video-editors/91/best-video-editor-windows?affid=2581_-1_478_PDR-NB_Blog&gclid=Cj0KCQiA1pyCBhCtARIsAHaY_5cT5BQlbKn4hohK8mbWdJIWCghC1XPkCniPcMkPbkf6CA6WWQGbuTYaAmufEALw_wcB

I have generally found Corel's products to be excellent value for the buck, even though they won't work on a Mac.

Alternatively, for a little more coin, you could try Adobe Premiere Elements. I have the Photo Elements version on my laptop when I can't access my desktop and I find that it works well.

Good luck!

The standard recommendation is Magix Vegas (formerly Sony Vegas).

It can be bought for about £50 and it's pretty much industry-standard.

I used to use Windows Movie Maker, which had terrible compression. Vegas is fast, slick, and orders of magnitude better at compressing files when you render down to MP4.

(ta to Soundguy for the original recommendation of Vegas).

I had actually found their products earlier and was about to pull the trigger but I wanted to see if anybody else recommended it. Thanks for the advice.

Used a few at work. My personal favourite (serif) was killed off a few years ago sadly, but no longer really do any video editing.

Adobe CC - expensive, but probably the most commonly used. It has its reputation, can be buggy, but still seems to be the market leader.

Davinci Resolve - basic is free, but you can pay for extras. Can be buggy, and from having had a play with it had a few crashes and it wasn't the most user friendly. It's a rival for Adobe, but still some way to go.

Premiere elements - A step down from MovieMaker before it was effectively killed off. Clunky, unreliable and generally a pain.

Hitfilm Express - did better than I thought it would. Was used for a month or so by one of our comms team at work before one of the adobe full suites came up which they literally bit my arm off for.

Vegas - offered it to the team to look at, and was resoundly told no. Not very quick to render and not meant to be particularly user friendly. If you are interested in it, they do (or at least did) have a free trial for it on their website

I use VideoPad ... https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html
and find it very good; does everything I want it to, and does it well.

Here's a good one you can use online
https://www.kapwing.com/tools/free-video-editor

Interesting. Please could you explain what the compression thing means DM.

I'm fortunate enought to have the last version of Premiere Pro before everything Adobe went cloud-based and subscription. It might be a little behind the times, but it handles most HD video well, and more importantly I can use it without being connected to the internet all the time. No idea whether this can still be found anywhere now...

I use Davinci Resolve.

It has everything I need, and it's pretty powerful for being free. I've used other free editing software before, and was not impressed.

Personally, I think if Adobe is the gold standard, Resolve should get a solid bronze. It's a little more finicky than Adobe, but considering it's 100% cheaper, I don't have any hard feelings.

18 years of using Vegas Pro. It's simply the best option if you don't want to spend 5 figures for Avid, the high end standard for film and TV. Right out of the box, the basics are powerful and easy. Rendering quality is superior to most other editors due to the codecs used. Unlike many editors that are resource pigs, Vegas will use anything/everything you allow it to, but can run on even low end hardware at the expense of some speed. As you get more proficient, you can go thru the menus and learn how to do the advanced stuff like image stabilization, color grading, motion tracking, and the hundreds of available FX plugins

Vegas started life as a multitrack version of the audio editor Sound Forge, then they added video features in the early 2000s, many of which seem to be clones of Avid functions. Due to its pedigree, the audio features are some of the best in the business and anyone with a live or studio background in sound will feel right at home with the workflow.

Most importantly, it's one of the few remaining editors that you buy outright and don't have to pay stupid monthly fees to use. It's currently on version 18, but I have several workstations still on v14, with older installs of 12. I have a legacy machine that I only fire up to burn CDs and it's still running v9. The nice thing about Vegas for people who have been in the business for awhile is the full backwards compatibility. v18 will open a project file from any version that has ever existed, unlike several inferior editors (looking at YOU,Premier and FCP) that choke and die on old project files.

Filmora 9. Does everything ever other editing program does for a fraction of the cost.