Update March 4, 2022: Starting with a video released on March 4, 2022, I’ve switched to HitFilm Express. Shotcut is still a good video editor and it served me well, but HitFilm Express has a few extra features that I find too useful that were missing from Shotcut at the time I wrote this update.
To reach a wider audience, I upload my music to YouTube. To do that, I need to make a video to accompany my music. After using various other tools in the past and having done a lot of research and watching reviews and tutorials, about a year ago (2020) I started using Shotcut and have been doing so ever since. It’s free, has a helpful forum, plenty of YouTube tutorials and is under active development to keep improving it.
I’ve found it easy to use for slide show style videos, merging video clips and for an unintended application: cartoon-cutout-style animation. Any video I’ve made since July 2020 has been made with Shotcut.
See my Shotcut videos here: Virtual Playing YouTube Channel
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