Best Free Video Editor .. ?

Back in the day, the best video editor for simple, basic editing was Windows Movie Maker.

It was a great, no-frills editor which allowed you to do so much, but there came a point I needed a bit more, nothing fancy, bit just a little more.

That was when I discovered Serif's MoviePlus software and actually paid for X5 after trying a trial since it was cheap at about £15.

It had everything Movie Maker offered and the bit more I was looking for, that being markers.

Obviously it had other extras which were a nice bonus, but that was years ago and doesn't work anymore, so the next obvious choice everyone was recommending, DaVinci Resolve.

Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing editor with quite literally everything you could ask for, but there's quite a learning curve.

So recently, I was looking around for a free video editor which works how I wants and has what I need.

That was when I discovered ShotCut.

I tried kdenlive, but seemed to take forever to load and I couldn't work out what to do, it was a little confusing.

OpenShot is kind of ok, the interface is a bit too cutesy for my liking, but it's quite capable of doing what you need.

I eventually went with ShotCut though due to it being the closest experience to what I was used to.

I still need to figure out a couple of things and it seems you can't add a lot of text in an overlay, but I like it ... at least, so far.