Why use that obvious scam trap ?
Use open source software where you have an editor that is free as in freedom AND free as in beer
this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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Enshittification
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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Like Davinci? Wonderful piece of software without a doubt but OMG is it hard to pickup for someone that doesn’t want to become full time video editor…
That's only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it
With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.
From the standpoint who doesn't do much coding it's probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can't use one of your favourite programs anymore.
Davinci Resolve homie
Kdenlive
This looks like a phone app though?
It's Linux software, idk if there's some phone thing by the same name, but I've used it a little. It's pretty good.
Yes I’m aware. I prefer OpenShot myself. But at first glance it doesn’t look like OP is on a desktop.
ah my mistake, thought you had looked up Kdenlive and mistook it for a phone app
they were saying the photo in the post looks like a phone app
I'm voting for kdenlive. And krita for image creation, I use both (although my wife uses the tiktok editor whatever it's called on her phone and her videos are great, so there's that..)
*capcut it's called capcut apparently the free version is pretty good although I dunno if it works on desktop
From which version onward?
Nothing gets me to uninstall faster.
“Unlock 3 undo’s for only 9,99 (savings: 19,99!)”
kdenlive
Shotcut
Yep, was gonna say this, at least if you're on linux.
A bit of a confusing UI, but it doesn't seem to be as resource intensive as other editors with similar feature sets.
(Though I do have very little experience with video editors/editing in general... shotcut 'clicked' for me after a few hours of just brute force fucking about with no manual or anything)
Runs just fine on windows. A little slower than on Linux but it works.
What software is this?
Blender non-linear editor
Came here for the blender mention. I don't edit video often, but blender is fine for basic work! (and maybe more but I'm not a good enough editor to know)
This stuff drives me crazy. I'm not an artisty type, but sometimes I wanna enhance a photo, enlarge something, remove a background, on layer images, so I search up "free online whatever tool," go through the upload and whatever, and then all of a sudden it's all "nah, I changed my mind. the thing I told you I did I'm gonna have to charge you for or make you sign up for an account or whatever."
If I wanted to go through all that, I'd already have a dang tool installed! Thankfully after enough of these roadblocks, I've got a pretty good arsenal of free utilities, though nothing to help you out here. It looks like some other comments do though!
Needed a PDF editor on my phone once. Was a fn nightmare to find one.
Google links need upvote/downvote buttons!
Correction: Freemium
I think that “free” anything is the new €0.99
Is there any good video editor for phones?
Capcut i guess?
None of these pro tags are real... Yet