What video editor do you use?

[Daniele63]

Also, check out Shotcut, it's a simple open source video editor.

[ee]

I decided to switch to OpenShot Video Editor yesterday.

is it any better?

[solinus]

Started with Kapwing in 2021, limited usage in 2022 due to enshitification, finally totally stopped in 2025.
Moved to RunwayML in 2022, stopped using in ~2024 due to how buggy it was and the genAI bs
Moved to Shotcut in 2024, stopped using in late 2025 due to bugginess (fighting with it to make a usable gif for 20 mins was the last straw)
Currently using Davinci Resolve.

[xrossmediabar]

I decided to switch to OpenShot Video Editor yesterday.is it any better?

Yeah. It's got unlimited layers, but the text effects aren't the best so I just make them in Keynote, export them transparently and put them on top of the video layer. It's also got lots of aspect ratio settings for like DVDs and YouTube and other stuff. And it arguably looks better (dark theme is the best)

[xrossmediabar]

NOPE IT IS NOT BETTER JESUS CHRIST WHY IS BASIC FUNCTIONALITY SO HARD

I switched to Videopad for now, if I don't like it I'll try Shotcut and Olive

[Vaking Voda]

Openshot is like using basic tools made with fiberglass handles, you won't like it.

That's my opinion.

[solinus]

Openshot is like using basic tools made with fiberglass handles, you won't like it.

That's my opinion.

sidenote but its kinda odd that the only really good foss softwares (Blender, Godot) are the ones that work with 3d, which would be assumed to be very difficult to get right.

As stated before, I used shotcut before I threw it out the window because the export functions were unintuitive, and it took me 20 minutes of fiddling around till i got a usable gif out of it. Inkscape isn't as popular but it's not bad.

[coolepicname]

Windows movie maker, 6.0 and final build(stupid i know)

[TheCableGuy08]

It sounds silly, but my main video editor is Windows Movie Maker 6.0. It's simple enough for the kind of videos I make, and it gets the job done. Since my videos aren't anything that requires complex and rich editing, WMM is more than appropriate.

[nazzy]

these days i use kdenlive for video editing! back in the day i used to use adobe premiere cs4 and cs5 when my folks had copies of those but then i went down the open source rabbit hole. kdenlive is pretty good if i say so myself! at least it does what i need/want it to do anyway. in the past i have tried vegas and openshot but don't really remember anything about my experiences with those. and ofc i used movie maker from time to time :3