As a YouTuber, you have to be creative. Your creativity shouldn’t be limited to how you choose the content to record but also how you refine your recordings.This is a basic requirement for every YouTuber.If you have a great idea, a good recording moment, good content, or even a good recorder, that’s not enough.You need to have proficient editing skills, allowing you to present videos in near-perfect quality.
You don’t want to present your recordings raw. You need to edit it to improve its quality; makes it look more attractive, removes bad segments, adds information, and so on. If you are Mac user, you need to have a video editor for Mac.
You can now find lots of video editing tools with ease. Here are some popular video editing tools:
1. FilmoraX
Filmora for Mac is a video editing software made by Wondershare with premium quality. There are several Wondershare products that are useful for editing videos but in this article, we will focus on only one, FilmoraX. The folks at Wondershare updated their Filmora9 video editor and brought FilmoraX to the market, the evolution of its previous version with some updates and news that make this video editing software even better.
Here are some of its features
Keyframing: this new function in FilmoraX allows us to rotate, enlarge and move graphic elements from point A to point B previously defined. For content creators, this means a huge creative leap.
Color Matching: now FilmoraX allows us to homogenize the colors of different sections of our videos with a simple process worthy of the best video editing software on the market.
Audio ducking: now FIlmoraX allows us to Auto Duck the audio of our videos. Ducking is when our software automatically lowers the volume of an audio track so that another track is more prominent in the set. Audio ducking is very common in dubbing when we do “voice over”, dialogue in interviews dubbed in other languages, etc.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts: from this Mac video editor you can customize the keys you use for keyboard shortcuts and make everything to your liking and save even more time.
2. iMovie
This video editor application is an application made by Apple itself.This application was previously a video editor application specifically developed for devices with the Mac OS operating system.But now, this application is available for devices with the iOS operating system.So now, iPhone users can turn their videos into a movie through their device. This editor application, which is specially made for Apple’s platform, also offers a variety of special effects that can enhance the story in the video to be shared, such as effects to adjust the speed and so on.
3. Final Cut Pro
This is a video editing software that is exclusive to Apple users. More specifically, Mac users (be it iMac or Macbook). In the world of video editing, Final Cut is usually juxtaposed with Adobe Premiere Pro. Despite being in the upper class, both are still friendly for beginners who are just starting out with video editing. In Final Cut Pro, the multicam feature allows editors to synchronize 64 angles at once and edit a maximum of 16 angles simultaneously. This feature really speeds up the editor’s work, especially if there are many angles and not much editing time.
4. Adobe Premiere Pro
It is a non-linear editor (NLE) based video editing program from Adobe Systems. Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful editor and filmmaker software with advanced settings to produce extraordinary videos and movies.
Advantages:
– Timeline that has 99 video columns and 99 audio columns
– Can directly browse to the hard drive
– There is an additional Adobe Media Encorder application
– Works best on 64 bit computers / laptops
– It supports HD
– etc.
5. Adobe Premiere Rush
Adobe Premiere Rush is not a free application, but you have the option to try it for free by selecting the Starter Plan. While trying, you are free to create as many projects as possible, but only three can be exported, and the available cloud storage capacity is also limited to 2 GB. The features look quite similar to Adobe Premiere Pro.
Now you know that being a YouTuber is not as difficult as it was a few years ago.There are various video editing tools that you can use. However, if you ask for our opinion, we would answer it based on our experience. Without a doubt, we say FilmoraX is the best.