If in search for a comprehensive video tool for free you may consider trying VSDC Free Video Editor. Though advertised as a video editor, this full-featured video utility allows you create new videos (via your webcam), mix video files and add other media to the mix, create slideshows, capture your screen activity, convert video files, and a wealth of other functions and editing features.
For a free software tool, VSDC Free Video Editor offers many more tools, utilities, options, and functions than most open source and free video editors available on the Web. This extensive functionality translates into a set of interfaces that are far from being the most intuitive ones. Thus, to make the most of this free tool, be prepared to climb a steep learning curve. Only the main interface offers a set of large and intuitive icons to help you choose the right “project” or task. Here you can choose amongst creating a new video (Blank project), create a slideshow, import content (for editing, mixing, and enhancing), capture video, and record your desktop activity. From here onwards, you’ll be presented with a set of dedicated interfaces that make many professional and expensive tools pale in comparison in terms of functionality and complexity.
Not all projects demand a high level of expertise, though. Capturing video, producing slideshows from your best photos, and recording your desktop are fairly simple activities, and are likely to get excellent results without having to become a video expert first. They resemble very much the average look and feel of other similar tools. Editing video, mixing audio and video tracks, adding effects and filters, and even converting video between formats are much less intuitive. They’re closer to the wealth of features that you usually find in professional video editing tools.
Thus, enumerating all the functions and features made available for the various projects would be both cumbersome and useless. Suffice it to say that VSDC Free Video Editor is an all-in-one tool that covers all the stages of video production and edition. With this free utility, you can produce high-quality videos in any of the most widely used file formats and burn them to disc or upload them to your favorite social network straight away. To this end, the program offers you a set of export profiles that match the most common requirements needed to upload media to YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Vimeo.
v2.3 [Dec 10, 2014]
The new VSDC Free Video Editor 2.3.0 update released by Flash-Integro adds 3 dedicated utilities to download, burn, and convert videos, speeds up exporting and preview, reduces memory consumption and improves the use of multi-core CPUs for fluent and smooth performance.
VSDC Free Video Editor keeps delivering new functions and options with every version. And the latest one brings an impressive number of useful options too. In the center of the new update are: enhanced performance of the application thanks to reduced memory consumption, better utilization of CPU multiple cores, and the reworked algorithms of cubic and supersampling interpolation resulting in 3 to 4 times faster resizing. The latter option also greatly speeds up exporting and previewing of videos. Parallel processing of scenes on multiple CPU cores increases the smoothness of previewing and promotes 50-100% faster format converting.
In addition, VSDC Free Video Editor now features 3 new capable tools to manipulate videos easier. The first instrument is a video format converter equipped with optimized format-to-format conversion presets. While in-editor conversion is still possible, using a devoted tool delivers better size/quality ratios. The disk recording utility can now burn any files the user wants to a CD/DVD/Blu-ray disk, not just projects created in VSDC Video Editor. Finally, the Downloader tool can retrieve videos for editing from multiple web video services starting from YouTube.
Among other novelties are full-featured group operations in the Wizard for easier handling of multiple objects in the timeline, better thumbnail visualization, and new filters and effects that also work faster than ever before.
