These days there are so many social networks, blogs, websites out there that have easy to use online video makers embedded on them. Here are some of the most popular ones that you can use right away. I have reviewed each of these free online video makers based on how easy they are to use, their performance, ease of editing, convenience and how efficient they are when it comes to making all types of videos.
So, that said, here are the best tools that will make you more productive!
Lightworks
The best overall free video editing software
Lightworks includes a simple and intuitive interface, so it’s easy to pick up. Lightworks also offers a collection of detailed video tutorials, making it one of the more accessible and easy to learn Linux video editing software options on this list.
Lightworks has a suite of original stock videos and music clips licensed for use in any videos you edit on the program, letting you give a polished look to any marketing video.
Features include:
- High-quality simple trim functions for fast and precise video editing
- Speed optimization, letting you continue to edit while importing new content
- Multicam editing for syncing clips from multiple cameras
- Real-time team project sharing with full control over which user has editing access
- Easy sharing of videos with fast export to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Instagram
- Support for a wide range of video formats
Available for: Windows, Mac, and Linux
Price: Free, $24.99 per month for Pro version
VideoPad
Best free video editing software for beginners
VideoPad is one of the great free editing programs for anyone who wants to create high-quality videos without spending a dime. With VideoPad, you’ll find all kinds of simple and easy-to-use features—such as 3D video editing and a sound effects library—to try different video compositions and styles.
You can edit your videos with special effects, overlays, texts, and transition, as well as color adjustment and sound effects. Then export all your finished video to YouTube, Facebook, Google Drive, and other mobile devices quickly and easily.
The only drawback is that it may be too simple for advanced video editors. It doesn’t come with as many advanced features as some of the other free video editing software on this list, but with options to add light effects, fine tune colors, and overlay text and images, there’s enough here to make it worth the free download.
Features include:
- Double built-in screen (one to preview selected clips, one to preview complete sequence) for easy and intuitive editing
- Pre-made, customizable transitions for polished professionalism
- Exporting presets to easily create video files optimized for specific platforms—such as Facebook and YouTube—and post them directly from within the software
- Social media sharing and publishing tools to share videos online instantly
- A large library of video transitions and visual effects to customize videos
- Video optimization tools, such as stabilization
Available for: Mac, Windows
Price: Free
HitFilm Express
Simple free video editing software with professional visual effects and tutorials
If you don’t have a lot of experience with video editing, HitFilm Express may feel a little advanced at first—it’s used to produce Hollywood-style films—but it’s worth the learning curve, as it’s one of the best all-in-one free video editors available. (HitFilm does ask you to share a social media status update when you download the software, but that’s a small price to pay.)
The free video and editing software includes animation tools that let you create and edit audio and video transitions without the need to create composite shots, which is a huge time saver when editing.
Features include:
- Professional-grade video editing with motion tracking, color pickers, and cropping tools
- Composite shot enhancements that allow you to animate two separate shots together for surreal video effects
- An auto-stabilizer to make shaky footage look smooth
- Unlimited video and audio timeline track creation
- An adaptive trimmer that lets you re-trim your clips after adding them to the timeline
- Ability to copy a group of attributes from one clip and apply them directly to another or to a whole project
- Audio mixer for fine tuning sound for professional quality output
- Various transition options, such as push, zoom, and dissolve
Available for: Mac and Windows
Price: Free, $349 for the Pro version
Headliner
Headliner might be the easiest way to create a video with captions. (Remember that designing for sound off is key for social videos!)
With Headliner, you can upload a video and let it automatically transcribe the audio into captions or create a video simply uploading an article or an audio file. You can also upload or search for images, videos, and GIFs to be added to your video.
Bonus: The team at Headliner has a hilarious page explaining why the tool is free.
Clipchamp Create
Clipchamp Create is one of the most generous free online video editing tools I’ve found in my research. The free plan lets you create unlimited video projects, gives you access to all basic editing tools, and allows you to export your videos in 480p output resolution without watermark! (There’ll be a watermark if you use the stock footages, which I thought is reasonable.)
You could upgrade to Premium or Business for just $9 per month or $19 per month respectively to gain access to their stock library and to download your videos at higher resolutions.
Clipchamp also provides a few other video tools, such as video converter, video compressor, and webcam recorder.
Quik by GoPro
GoPro has two free video editing apps for creating and sharing content from your smartphone and GoPro devices. (It doesn’t have to be GoPro footages at all, and the videos created won’t have any watermark!)
Quik is the simpler of the two, which aims to let you create videos with minimal effort. As GoPro stated, “it automatically analyzes your footage to find the best moments, adds beautiful transitions and effects, and syncs it all to the beat of the music.” (Mindblown!)
Splice by GoPro
Splice is the other video editing app by GoPro. According to GoPro, Splice “puts the power of a professional desktop editor at your fingertips”. You can select transition style, trim your footages, add text, change the video speed, and more. Splice also provides a huge library of free soundtracks for your videos.
Adobe Premiere Clip
Adobe Premiere Clip is a mobile video editing app (available on both iOS and Android devices). Once you have selected your images and video clips, you can let Adobe Premiere Clip create a video for you automatically or create a highly customized video yourself. You can change the music, edit the image and video clips, add titles and transitions, and more.
If you subscribe to the Adobe Creative Cloud, this app also works with Premiere Pro CC, Lightroom, and Capture CC.
FilmoraGo
FilmoraGo is such a comprehensive video editor app that you might feel like you are editing your videos on your desktop. Besides the usual features such as themes, text, transitions, it also offers a range of video editing features — trim/split, ratio/crop, speed control, reverse, voice over, audio mixer, and picture-in-picture. It’s amazing that FilmoraGo is free and it doesn’t add a watermark or limit the length of your videos.
FilmoraGo is available on both iOS and Android devices.
Typito
Typito is another drag-and-drop online video editor with a forever free plan (so wonderful!) An interesting unique feature Typito has is the ability to add a branded banner on your video. This will allow your audience to easily recognize your videos on social media. Typito also lets you resize your video in seven different sizes with a click.
Most video editors I found doesn’t let you remove watermarks on a per-video basis but Typito lets you remove their logo from your video for $5.
Adobe Spark Video
Adobe Spark Video provides multiple storyboards, layouts, and themes to help you put together amazing videos. You can access all the features for free! The only catch is there will be a tiny Adobe Spark watermark in the bottom-right corner of your videos. (If you are already paying for Adobe Creative Cloud, you’ll access to Adobe Spark’s premium features, including removing the watermark.)
DaVinci Resolve
Top free video editing software for advanced editors
DaVinci Resolve combines professional 8K editing, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production in a single production tool, which is why it’s one of the free tools for video editing many professional editors of films, television shows, and commercials use.
DaVinci allows for both offline and online editing, and its high-performance playback engine saves time when editing and trimming—even for processor-intensive file formats like H.264 and RAW. DaVinci Resolve’s complex features may be too extensive for some users, but its free version is perfect for more advanced projects.
Features include:
- Dual timeline for quick navigation, cutting, and trimming
- A dedicated trim interface that gives you the ability to edit in minute detail
- Intelligent auto-editing that syncs audio and visual clips for you
- Built-in tools for picture-in-picture effects, retiming, stabilization, dynamic zoom, text, and audio
- Facial recognition that detects faces in your clips and automatically creates bins based on the people in each shot
- High-quality motion estimation speed changes and frame rate conversions to easily and realistically speed up or slow-down clips
Available for: Windows, Mac, and Linux
Price: Free, $269 for the full Studio version
Conclusion
Video can really engage your audience and provide a memorable experience to your fans. However, you may not have the budget for professional video services so it becomes necessary to consider using free tools.