One of the things that is exciting about all this is having to very quickly get to grips with various elements of filmmaking that I haven't had to worry about before, such as editing, after effects, colour-grading and so-on. I'm having to learn on the job.
Frugality is key here, I want as many features as possible on a free version of a good editing suite, but I also want there to be scope to learn and accomplish more for future projects. No standing still allowed! Obviously, the main players are one step ahead of me here, DaVinci and Final Cut etc, so although there are some excellent suites out there, they are either sparse in their free iterations, or incredibly expensive in their full-fat ones, and always a bit daunting for relative newbies like me.
However, I have narrowed it down very quickly after a lot of dithering and a near miss. I had tried OneShot initially, it seemed familiar and easy to grasp, but it lagged a fair bit, admittedly on my old laptop. HitExpress was the suite that was tried on both the old and the new hardware, and although it fared better on the new, it was still perhaps a bit of a drag for someone like me. So, Jenna (producer, better-half, spreadsheet advocate and drawer-upper of financial guidelines) and I decided to upgrade our laptop situation, and this has definitely widened our horizons as to which editing suites we can use well.
With the new hardware, I have opted for ShotCut. It is easy to use, but with a sliding scale so that new things can be learned, and there are a good raft of features that aren't usually available for nowt. And that gives me a confidence that the others didn't, not just short term, but for being able to experiment and evolve in the future. It will also make things easier for when the inevitably tight deadlines roll around. Once principal filming is done, I want things finished as quickly as possible, and that means being able to use an editing suite in an intuitive fashion.
https://shotcut.org/
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