Recently, I accepted a new technological task: editing my church's services into programs that will be broadcast on a local public-access TV station. Obviously, one of my first tasks was to find a video editing program that I could use. While I could have spent hundreds of dollars on software like Adobe Premier or Final Cut, I wanted to see if there was something I could use that would be cheaper.
I experimented with a wide variety of free, open-source software for both Windows and Linux, and I have to say that I was highly disappointed until I came to one of my final options. Some of the editors I tried did not work at all, and others had only basic video editing features. However, when I came to Blender, I found a program that would fulfill all my editing needs.
Blender is actually an animation program intended for creating Pixar-like animated movies. However, it also contains a video editor that can be used for editing any type of video. While I do not have a substantial amount of experience in the video editing realm, reviews online say that Blender's editing features rival the expensive paid software options I mentioned earlier. Since it is open source, you can always submit requests for new features to be included in future versions of the software. Plus, if you know the Python programming language, you can write your own custom scripts and include them.
Blender does use some different key combinations than other software, so if you are familiar with Premier or Final Cut, you may find that it takes some time to get used to Blender. However, there are a wide variety of tutorials available on Youtube that discuss both the animation and video editing features of Blender.
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