- What's the best video editing software for Windows right now in 2020? Well here's our roundup of the latest options with our picks for the best video editors in every category. From the best free software to paid and professional options with everything that you need to know to help you decide which one is the best one for you. Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video where we help you grow an audience and scale your revenue with online video. If you're new here, make sure you click that subscribe button and all the links to everything that we mentioned in this video, you can find linked in the description box below. So let's jump into it.
Now video editing software updates so fast. So we do a roundup like this every 6 to 12 months for both Windows and Mac. And every time we go back to the drawing board, we restart all of our research and we retest a ton of options. And we eventually narrow the list down to our recommendations for the best video editing software across every budget.
Now as always, there have been some big changes since our last video, some of my prior recommendations still make the cut, whereas others have fallen behind and some newer options have stepped into their place. Now, just like last time, I'm going to break this overview down into multiple pricing categories, including free, paid and more professional software so that you can see what's available at each level.
You can hear our recommendations. And if you're just starting out in one of the lower brackets, you can know exactly what you'll be unlocking if you do jump into one of the higher brackets. And once we're done with my recommendations across every pricing bracket, we're going to wrap up with three quick tips that you can use to level up your video editing and edit faster in any editing software.
Okay, so here's the pricing categories that we're gonna be breaking this down into. The first one is free software. So obviously, that's all the stuff out there that is free. Now I do want to say here, that every piece of software that we are mentioning in this video is watermark free, meaning that you can actually get good results and use this software to create your videos without any branding or watermark on the finished product.
The next category is sub $200, or all video editing software under $200. Now when we're running through this software, we're also going to include free software in this category as well, because if you are interested in spending up to $200 for video editing software, your options are also going to include free software. So we're going to put the two head-to-head. And the third category includes all software that is $200 and above, and again, to make this a fair assessment, if you were going to spend that money on video editing software, we've also included the sub $200 and the free stuff in there as well so that you really see which is going to be the best option for you moving forward. So for the first category free software, there's a lot of options out there, and those include things like VSDC the free version, HitFilm Express Lightworks, Shotcut, Avid Media Composer First, and DaVinci Resolve.
Now typically what you would find with free software is that it's very limited in what you can actually do. Normally there's not a lot of pro features, normally there's not a lot of control over your actual editing, and a lot of them are just theme based or template based editing.
But that's not always the case. So from testing all of these to narrow this down, my shortlist includes HitFilm Express, VSDC Free, and DaVinci Resolve. And really, you're going to be able to create great videos using any one of these. With HitFilm Express, I think it's got a really good really clean, easy to use interface. So for someone who is an absolute beginner, it's going to be easy for you to jump in here and quickly figure out where everything is and to start editing your videos down. But it's not just a video editing application.
They've also got some amazing features in there for special effects and for motion graphics and those sorts of things as well. Now if you do want to unlock some extra and more advanced features in there, you can either purchase some of their add on packs, or there is a pro version of HitFilm available as well, which we will cover a little later in this video.
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