The Advance Chroma Key tool let me get the green out with its Hue, Chroma, and Intensity delta sliders. The feature finally started working (I'm not sure why), though the Simple Chroma Key tool left some green from the green screen in the result. To do so, you need to open the Filters panel, hit the plus sign, and choose an adjustment (lighting and color, for example), filter (such as old film), or effect (think fade out and circular frame).ĭespite following the tutorial video, at first I was unable to get the chroma keying effect to work with my sample footage, which hasn't presented a problem with any other software I've tested. EffectsĪpplying effects is less intuitive than in most consumer video editors, but once you discover the process, it's not too bad. As with pro video editors, you can use the keyboard shortcuts J, K, and L to control playback, and I and O to set in and out points, however. You can't drag clips between tracks, which is a bit inconvenient you can only drag them from the source panel. That's not bad, but it's nowhere near the choices available in products like PowerDirector or Pinnacle Studio. By default, you get a cross-fade, but there are 24 basic wipe-style transitions built in, and you can also download custom wipes. Instead, you drag adjacent clips in the timeline to overlay, and a transition appears. I tested on my trusty Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC, with a 4K touch screen and running 64-bit Windows 10 Pro.Īdding transitions isn't as straightforward as in most editors, which let you drag canned transitions from a source panel. It's updated with surprising regularity for an open source app, and on first run the app asks to check if you're running the latest version. For a video editor, it's a lightweight download of only 184MB. In addition, your GPU must support OpenGL 2.0 or DirectX 9 or 11. Your CPU should be 2GHz, with 4 cores for 4K video, and you need 4GB RAM for SD video, 8GB for HD video, and 16GB for 4K video. It runs on Windows 7 through Windows 10 for Apple desktops, macOS 10.8 and later is supported Linux machines need at least GLIBC 2.13.
Shotcut is available for Windows (both 32- and 64-bit), Mac, and Linux. It's free, too, so you have nothing to lose by kicking the tires. Shotcut offers many standard video editing features, and after you spend a little time figuring it out, it's not that hard to use. In some cases, like the GIMP photo app, you take a huge usability hit, but video editing software Shortcut is only moderately less usable than the commercial offerings like PowerDirector and Pinnacle Studio. For those who don't want to pay for slick interface design and all the latest features, there's always open-source software.
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