VSDC Free Video Editor edits video files and supports popular video/audio formats and codecs, including DVD, HD, and GoPro videos. Preconfigured profiles simplify making videos for multimedia and mobile devices.
The VSDC Free Video Editor handles video file edits and complex video creation with various visual and audio effects. The software provides rich functionality and features a simple, intuitive interface, enabling video creation with minimal effort.
VSDC Free Video Editor offers versatile features for both home and business use, including text and audio overlay, charts and diagrams, and a slideshow maker.
This program is a non-linear editing system, meaning video files and images do not need to follow a specific sequenceโthey can be arranged in any order. Additionally, objects can change their properties, shape, and position over time.
Hardware acceleration, multi-color Chroma Key, adjustable parameter settings, and enhanced resolution make VSDC a time-saving tool for producing large HD videos in minutes instead of hours.
VSDC Free Video Editor Features:
Visual and audio effects
You can apply various visual and audio effects to your videos to achieve the required outcome. Since the number of available visual effects is very high, they are split into 5 categories for ease of navigation: color correction, object transformation, object filters, transition effects, and special fx.
Blending modes and Instagram-like filters
Another way to customize your video’s appearance is through color blending. Adjustable parameters give your video a unique, professional look. Beginners or those looking to save time can apply Instagram-like filters with a single click.
Masking
VSDC Free Video Editor allows you to create differently shaped masks to hide, blur, or highlight certain elements in your video. You can use it to apply special effects inside or outdoors in the masked area. One of the most common reasons for masking is to blur a face to protect the identity or remove undesirable marks.
Motion tracking
The motion tracking tool enables the registration and tracking of movements of any item in a video, assigning the resulting path to other elements โ titles, captions, icons, images, masks, and more. With this tool, placing a censorship mask on a moving item or making captions follow a selected element in the video becomes easy.
Easy export to social networks
To prepare a video for Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Vimeo without issues, VSDC Free Video Editor offers special export profiles that significantly reduce the stress of selecting a suitable format and meeting all requirements.
Subpixel accuracy
Objects in a scene are positioned with subpixel accuracy, which makes for clean animation, rotation, transformation, and exact relative positioning.
4K Video and HD Video export
VSDC Free Video Editor is presently the only free video editor that allows you to export in a new H265/ HEVC codec to keep up the very best high quality at a minimum file size which is important for these usually processing 4K and HD files.
Creation of videos for specific multimedia devices
Thanks to a large set of preconfigured profiles, you can easily create videos for most popular multimedia devices, such as DVD players, iPod/iPhone/iPad, PSP, Galaxy, any smartphones and regular phones, Sony PlayStation, Xbox, Zune, Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen, Blackberry, MP4 players and many others.
Working with charts
You can create various types of diagrams, including 3D diagrams such as Bar, Stacked Bar, Point, Bubble, Line, Scatter Line, Fast Line, Step Line, Spline, Area, Spline Area, Stacked Area, Stacked Spline Area, Range Bar, Gantt, Pie, Pie 3D, Torus 3D, Radar Point, Radar Line, Radar Area, Radar Spline, Radar Spline Area, Funnel, Pyramid, Pyramid 3D, High Low, and Candle Stick. These diagrams can be based on dynamically changing data of various types. Additionally, the appearance of diagrams is fully customizable, including charts, coordinate axes, user-defined axes, legends, names of charts and axes, lines, labels, and other elements, allowing you to tailor them to your specific needs. Integrated color themes enable quick changes to the appearance of your charts.
Video library (to be included within the next software release)
The VSDC Free Video Editor software allows you to create your library of multimedia files with transient or detailed descriptions. This will help you manage your video collection and simplify access to the mandatory files.
VSDC Free Video Editor Additional Features:
Video stabilization tool
Footage captured from drones, action cameras, or other portable devices often needs improvement. The VSDC Stabilization tool acts as a virtual tripod, helping remove jitter or shaking effects caused by camera movement, resulting in a smoother video image.
YouTube uploader
VSDC Free Video Editor allows you to upload your video directly to YouTube from the app without switching windows or tabs.
Built-in DVD burning tool
The editor includes a DVD-burning tool, making it easy to burn the results of your work to optical discs.
Video Converter
The application software is designed to convert video files from one format to another. It has some basic features for editing videos: removing unneeded segments, splitting your video into parts, and merging several files into one.
Desktop video capture
Desktop video capture utility saves captured footage to a video file for subsequent processing within the editor.
Video capturing
Another feature is capturing video from various video tuners, webcams, and IP cameras. You can then save the captured footage on your computer in any format for subsequent editing.
Changes in VSDC Free Video Editor 9.3 :
- The Wizard features an improved interface for easier utilization of new effects.
- A text conversion utility was added to convert text into separate blocks, shapes, curves, and tracking points.
- Toggles for quick switching between โYesโ and โNoโ options for various settings in the properties window are added. For the following effects โ Segmentation, Noise Effect, Diffuse Effect, Shadow Effect, Aging TV Effect, Random Dot Stereo TV Effect, Distort Effect, and Skew Effect โ these toggles impact the Key Editor.
- Sprites can automatically determine their usage as containers and whether to show effects, eliminating the need for manual adjustments.
- File filtering in the file explorer remembers the extension you previously selected.
- The Key Editor window displays all available options, and you can customize the toolbar to suit your preferences.
- Now you can save more than 10 presets for pane configurations.
- A new disable option for Segmentation is added to prevent overloading your system when working on heavy projects.
- Control handling in the Color Grading circles is improved: you can easily place and move points.
- More precise numerical parameters can be set for effects including Zoom, Rotate, Perspective, Skew, Resample, Distort, Lens Distortion, Motion Blur, Shattered Glass, and Movement.
- Filtering in the Template window is enhanced with a new mode that allows you to view all child effects associated with the element or group of elements you are searching for.
- Position saving in the template tree for better navigation is added.
- A new background fill is available to simplify creating blurred backgrounds.
- New template variations (soft and sharp) are added for Wipe, Push, and Mosaic effects.
- The Video Converter includes Preview and Shutdown options during the conversion stage.
- Now in the properties window, you can simultaneously process parameters for multiple movement points, sprites, lines, rectangles, ellipses, free shapes, tooltips, spectrums, audio abstractions, and duplicates.
- New templates for titles, wedding slideshows, and LUTs are added to the template window.
- A separate option was added under ‘Acceleration Options’ to enable hardware acceleration for decoding high-quality video (4K and higher) when creating a storyboard. It includes an automatic hardware resizer for storyboard thumbnails when the NVidia decoder is selected within these options.
- Minor improvements and bug fixes:
- Issues that prevent editing templates are fixed.
- The issue with Segmentation occasionally failing after a restart has been resolved.
- The duplicate function for tracking points is fixed.
- Copy-paste order across multiple objects and layers is corrected.
- The incorrect movement duration when pasting is improved.
- Recalculation of movement control points after pasting is resolved.
- Quick styles apply correctly.
- The recent Files list is retained after reinstallation.
- Artifacts that appeared when drawing text along a curve are resolved.
- Editable LUT export functions properly.
- The picker tool works across multiple monitors with different DPI settings.
- Fixed parameter setting when selecting multiple objects and pressing Enter.
System Requirements:
- Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (we recommend installing the newest updates and service packs as properly)
- Intel, AMD, or a suitable processor with a working frequency of 1.5 GHz or higher
- Screen resolution: 1024ร768 pixels with 16-bit color or higher
- RAM 512Mb for the software
- Microsoft DirectX 9.0ั or higher
- At least 300 MB of free disk space
- The installation and activation of the software require Administrator permissions.