VSDC Free Video Editor

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Developer(s) Flash-Intergro LLC Size 35.1 Mb		Operating system Windows License Freeware

Initial release 2011; 6 years ago (2011) Stable release 5.7.5 / February 2017; 2 months ago (2017-02)

VSDC Free Video Editor is a non-linear editing system (NLE) published by Flash-Integro LLC. The program is tailored for editing digital video and audio files in various formats including high-definition and ultra-high-definition resolutions, offering professional post production effects, as well as the ability to export in 4k resolution, capture video from screen, record voice, burn discs, save multimedia files to a number of supported formats and publish them on OneDrive, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, and Flickr.

Layout

VSDC Free Video Editor does not require any specialized hardware to run properly, allowing it to operate on Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7/8/10.

The layout consists of timeline area, scene area, status bar, quick access toolbar, editing tools(standard tools, paper tools, layout tools), command bar with media library (video and audio effects, transitions), properties window and resource window. The timeline area has a by-frame / by-second track and adjustable layer layouts. Wizard sequence feature offers express transition effects and defines sequence of digital objects on the scene.

Importing footage

A user can either import video, audio or images from computer hard disk drive, or capture video from camera and computer screen.

Supported import formats:

Video formats: WebM, AVI, QuickTime (MP4/M4V, 3GP/2G2, QuickTime File Format), HDVideo/AVCHD (MTS, M2TS, TS, MOD, TOD), Windows Media (WMV, ASF, DVR-MS), DVD/VOB, VCD/SVCD, MPEG/MPEG-1/DAT, Matroska Video (MKV), Real Media Video (RM, RMVB), Flash Video (SWF, FLV), DV, AMV, MTV, NUT, H.264/MPEG-4, MJPEG, H265/HEVC.

Audio formats: MP3/ MP2, WMA, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Ogg, RA, RAM, VOC, WAV, AC3, AIFF, MPA, AU, APE, CUE, CDA, FLAC.

Image formats: BMP, JPEG/JPG, PNG, PSD, GIF, ICO, CUR.

Editing and output

Any digital object may be dragged and dropped anywhere on the timeline. Once on the timeline, video can be duplicated, split, cut, muted, cropped, flipped, rotated, played backward, resized, etc., its speed can be slowed down or increased; audio may experience amplitude and delay effects, filters, tempo and rate change, reverse effect, etc.; color corrected and enhanced. VSDC Free Video Editor gives the opportunity to save an output file to a computer hard disk drive with the resolution based on the targeted device (PC, mobile devices, iPhone/iPod, MP3/MP4, Blackberry, etc.), adjust bitrate, framerate, quality or burn to DVD disc. Supported output formats:

Video formats: AVI, DVD, VCD/SVCD, MPEG, MP4, M4V, MOV, 3GP/3G2, WMV, MKV,RM/RMVB, FLV, SWF, AMV, MTV, Webm

Audio formats: MP3, M4A, AAC, OGG, AMR, WAV

Image formats: BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF

Supported devices:

Personal computer, various DVD players, iPod/iPhone/iPad/iTunes, cell-phones and smartphones, Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei, Google Nexus, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Sony PSP, Play Station, Xbox, Blackberry smartphones, Zune, Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen media players, Windows handheld PC and other portable MP3/MP4 players, action cameras (including GoPro Hero 4 and 5) and all drone types.

Basic editing

Cutting, splitting and merging video and audio tracks;

Speed change;

Splitting a video file into audio and video tracks and editing them as separate objects;

Text and subtitles insertion;

Integrated video downloader;

Integrated converter tool supporting more than 20 formats;

Integrated screen recorder;

Slide-show wizard offering 70+ transition effects to make one object smoothly go into one another, dissolve or overlap two video or image files;

Zoom effect - magnify or reduce the view of the image;

Snapshots - capture a particular moment of a video clip.

Pro features

Gradient tool supported;

Deinterlacing filter added;

Blending modes and a mask tool supported;

Instagram-like filters and Quick styles tool for express color correction;

Color correction (brightness, temperature, contrast, saturation, gamma, etc.) effects - allow adjustment of tonal range, color, and sharpness of video files and images;

Grayscale effect creates a black and white video image;

TV effects (Aging TV, Broken TV, Noise TV) – either create an old movie effect adding scratches, noise, shake and dust to video, as if it's being played on an old projector, or make a torn film footage effect when a video's occurring from the bottom part of the screen and is disappearing in the upper part;

Blur and sharpen effects - visually smooth and soften an image, or make video image better focused;

Pixelazation effect – imitates enlarging of a digital image further than the resolution of the monitor device;

Audio amplitude effects (normalization, fading in and out, amplification) helps to correct audio track;

Delay, time-stretch and reverse effects are tailored to give the audio track the relevant sounding: as if sung by a chorus, stretched in time or played backward;

Simultaneous work with several audio tracks;

Sprite option - several objects on the scene can be gathered into a sprite in order to apply needed effects on an entire group of objects and save space on the timeline;

Movement – the objects on the scene can move following the set trajectory;

Animation – illusion of motion and change of any static objects on the scene by means of the rapid display of a sequence of these objects;

Chroma key option - add video overlay half transparent so that only part of it is visible and all the rest disappears to reveal the video underneath;

3D charts including Pie, Radar, Torus, Bar, Bubble, Spline, Step Line, Spline area, Funnel, Pyramid, etc. for optimized display of any complex data;

Editing of 2k and 4k resolution videos.

Release history

The initial release of VSDC Free Video Editor was made in 2012.

References

VSDC Free Video Editor Wikipedia

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