HACKER Q&A
📣 breck

What video editing software has the best UX?


If I wanted to stitch together an hour long movie cut from 100 different shorter clips, what's the best software out there for doing this?

Who has nailed it? I have iMovie on my machine but not sure what the best things are.


  👤 gus_massa Accepted Answer ✓
I'm using Shotcut https://shotcut.org/ . No idea if it has the best UX or not. Sometimes it's great, sometimes not.

The files are saved as xml, so you can try to generate the file automatically, and let the program later handle all the nasty details of video encodings.

(I edited the xml files for very simple changes that are not possible in the UI, like changing the order of the tracks.)


👤 anigbrowl
Adobe Premiere is my favorite, but Final Cut is also good. https://www.openshot.org/ is an excellent open source option.