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The free version of Davinci Resolve and Gimp serves me well for my video and (limited) photo editing needs. Just kind of depends on what you are doing.

Resolve is something I can definitely stand behind, awesome program that is quite fully featured and should run great on a Ryzen 5 1600 (you may want to right click the video on the timeline and "Generate Optimized Media" for smoother playback on higher quality footage).

Gimp is a program people love to hate, but it works fairly well, I just don't have a ton to add to the conversation about it, since I don't do photo editing much.

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I'm off to the dominican on Friday for 2 weeks and i intend to take lots of video/photos with my gopro6/note9. I'd like to make one of those montage videos with music in BG etc for when i get back. Could anyone point me to a decent paid/unpaid video editing software for myself to use.

 

I'm a complete amateur in videography. Cheers.

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The free version of Davinci Resolve and Gimp serves me well for my video and (limited) photo editing needs. Just kind of depends on what you are doing.

Resolve is something I can definitely stand behind, awesome program that is quite fully featured and should run great on a Ryzen 5 1600 (you may want to right click the video on the timeline and "Generate Optimized Media" for smoother playback on higher quality footage).

Gimp is a program people love to hate, but it works fairly well, I just don't have a ton to add to the conversation about it, since I don't do photo editing much.

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5 minutes ago, Minibois said:

The free version of Davinci Resolve and Gimp serves me well

i second

 

and maybe something to decode because it doesn't support h264

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1 hour ago, Minibois said:

The free version of Davinci Resolve and Gimp serves me well for my video and (limited) photo editing needs. Just kind of depends on what you are doing.

Resolve is something I can definitely stand behind, awesome program that is quite fully featured and should run great on a Ryzen 5 1600 (you may want to right click the video on the timeline and "Generate Optimized Media" for smoother playback on higher quality footage).

Gimp is a program people love to hate, but it works fairly well, I just don't have a ton to add to the conversation about it, since I don't do photo editing much.

 

6 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

i second

 

and maybe something to decode because it doesn't support h264

Thank you both for the quick and informative replies =]

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8 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

i second

 

and maybe something to decode because it doesn't support h264

Good point, I actually wanted to edit something some days ago which was an .mov file which Resolve didn't support..

2 minutes ago, Noctus said:

Thank you both for the quick and informative replies =]

It's probably wise to install a program like Handbrake too - depending on the filetypes you record/maybe get from others - Resolve might not support all.

Handbrake is basically a program that turns a certain video file into another.

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2 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Handbrake

handbrake, that was the name i was looking for

 

the ui is all over the place, but it works so well

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6 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Good point, I actually wanted to edit something some days ago which was an .mov file which Resolve didn't support..

It's probably wise to install a program like Handbrake too - depending on the filetypes you record/maybe get from others - Resolve might not support all.

Handbrake is basically a program that turns a certain video file into another.

 

4 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

handbrake, that was the name i was looking for

 

the ui is all over the place, but it works so well

Yeah, ive used that before years ago when uploading mmo gameplay because the format wasn't playing nice :)

 

Will get that as well !

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Yeah, ive used that before years ago when uploading mmo gameplay because the format wasn't playing nice :)

 

Will get that as well !

alright, anything else i can help with?

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1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

alright, anything else i can help with?

Nah man, was just looking for options on which editing software i should use. Got few videos on youtube i'm planning to watch for gopro settings etc and whats best for post editing. Thanks again.

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Nah man, was just looking for options on which editing software i should use. Got few videos on youtube i'm planning to watch for gopro settings etc and whats best for post editing. Thanks again.

no problem

 

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