I want to edit videos but not spend a dime, and using ffmpeg is starting to feel a bit too ghetto
Davinci Resolve, it's not open source, but it's the only freeware that is actually used in the film industry.
(Edit: Besides Lightworks, but unless you are working for Scorsese it's pretty much EOL)
Libre is free as in freedom, the source code is open and you can modify the program, extend it, use it for whatever you want.
Gratis is free of cost, but you can't modify it or even see how it functions and there's an end user licence agreement with a list of things you cannot use the program for.
Thank you kind sir, may your upvotes be bountiful and your bacons thorougly narwhaled
Or you could just get it from one of the many places that won't give you those.
I find it hard to believe anyone can rely on any source of pirated software to not have malware. It's the bread and butter of crackers.
private trackers arent the ones cracking the software, and a lot of that shit isn't detectable using antivirus
Supposedly Blender (the open source 3d model editing software) has a decent built-in video editor.
Disclaimer: I tried to use it once. The longer I used it, the more confused I felt.
My wife just switched from lightworks to adobe premier pro (pirated) And she likes it a lot better.
Somebody already said it but pirate Premiere. I have almost no video editing experience but found it very easy to use, there's tons of good tutorials and specific guides so basically anything you come up with you can do. It was incredibly satisfying to think "I want this title sequence to look like it's on a CRT TV, complete with the low hum, those lines across the screen, and a fuzz effect when the title changes" and to be able to bring that into existence relatively easily.
Idk how free ones compare in terms of features but I don't imagine there's much you can't do with Premiere (god what a horrible sentence. sorry I just woke up)
olive is a new project that looked promising. I haven't tried it since more than a year though https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Otherwise I use kdenlive.
