VSDC Free Video Editor

The program offers rich functionality and yet has a simple and intuitive interface, allowing you to create videos with a bare minimum of efforts.

Features

Non-linear video editor

Our editor is a non-linear tool. This means that unlike in most other editors, where scenes come one after another in a linear sequence and certain order, our software allows objects to be placed in any position on the timeline and have any size. Besides, various parameters, shape and position of objects can change arbitrarily over time.

Visual and audio effects

You can apply various visual and audio effects to your videos to achieve the necessary result. Since the number of available visual effect is very high, they are split into five categories for ease of navigation: color correction, object transformation, object filters, transition effects and special fx.

Blending modes and Instagram-like filters

One more way of changing the look of your video image according to your preferences is color blending. Using a wide array of adjustable parameters, you can attach a unique professional style to your video. Newbies or those, who would like to save time, can benefit from stylish Instagram-like filters applied in one click.

Masking

VSDC Free Video Editor allows for creating different shaped masks for hiding, blurring or highlighting certain elements in your video. You can use it to apply special effects inside or outside the masked area. One of the most common reasons for masking are to blur a face to protect the identity or remove unwanted marks.

Motion tracking

The Motion tracking tool allows for registering and tracking movements of any objects in a video and then assigns the resulted trajectory to other elements – titles, captions, icons, images, masks, and more. With its help, placing a censorship mask on a moving object or making captions follow a selected element in a video becomes easy.

Easy export to social networks

To prepare a video for Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Vimeo without any problems, VSDC Free Video Editor offers you special export profiles which significantly reduce the stress of selecting a suitable format and meeting all the requirements.

Subpixel accuracy

Objects in a scene are positioned with subpixel accuracy, which makes for smooth animation, rotation, transformation and precise relative positioning.

Support of popular formats

Our software supports virtually all video, image and audio formats and codecs. That is why you won't need any additional conversion tools to edit your files, as is often the case with other programs.

4K and HD export

VSDC is currently the only free video editor that allows you to export in a new H265/HEVC codec to maintain the highest quality at a minimum file size which is essential for those often 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 diagrams of different kinds, including 3D diagrams: 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, Candle Stick. These objects can be based on dynamically changing data of different types. Besides, the appearance of diagrams is fully customizable (appearance of charts, coordinate axes, user-defined axes, legends, names of charts and axes, lines, labels and other elements), which will help you tailor them to your specific needs. Integrated color themes make it possible to quickly change the way your charts look.

Video library (to be included in the next program release)

The editor software lets you create your own library of multimedia files with brief or detailed descriptions. This will help you organize your video collection and simplify access to the necessary files.

Video stabilization tool

Footage taken from drones, action cameras or other devices on the go often needs improvement. VSDC Stabilization tool, as your virtual tripod, helps remove jitter or any other shaking effects, caused by camera movement and turn it into a much smoother video image.

YouTube uploader

VSDC Free Video Editor not only provides ready-made profiles for exporting to social networks, but also offers you to upload your video directly to YouTube right from the app without switching windows or tabs.

Built-in DVD burning tool

The editor comes with a DVD burning tool, allowing you to easily burn the results of your work to optical discs.

Video File Converter

The application is designed to quickly 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

The video editor features a desktop video capture utility that saves captured footage to a video file for subsequent processing in the editor.

Video capturing

Another feature of the our editor is the ability to capture video from various video tuners, webcams, IP Ñameras and save the captured footage on your computer in an arbitrary format for subsequent editing.

What's New

VSDC 11.3 expands the editor with AI video and image generation, AI-powered image editing, new Garmin and DJI telemetry data, and major improvements to the Key Editor and scene editing workflow. The update also enhances project recovery, multi-object editing, interface customization, Lens Distortion accuracy and overall stability.

• Added AI-powered content creation tools:
  • AI image generation;
  • AI video generation;
  • AI-powered image editing.
• Expanded Garmin and DJI telemetry support:
  • Garmin telemetry now supports cadence, heart rate and compass data;
  • DJI telemetry now supports coordinates, speed and altitude.
• Improved the Key Editor for faster keyframe editing:
  • added Y-axis auto-scaling;
  • improved zooming and scrolling while changing the scale;
  • added multi-selection and simultaneous editing of multiple keyframes and points.
• Enhanced scene editing and object transformation:
  • added orthogonal movement while holding Shift for objects, custom points, FreeShape/Polyline points, service/tracking points and control points;
  • added proportional resizing for transformed objects while holding Shift;
  • added resizing relative to the object center while holding Alt or Alt+Shift.
• Project files now preserve the state of Timeline and Key Editor tabs, making it easier to continue editing after reopening a project.
• Added the ability to copy Basic Effects property values to selected objects by pressing Enter in the input field, improving multi-object editing.
• Improved Windows shutdown handling: VSDC can now create a recovery project when necessary if the computer is turned off while the editor is running.
• Added a dedicated menu command for removing offline media files from projects.
• Added Ribbon customization for a more flexible editing workspace.
• When multiple objects are selected, Basic parameters with different values are now highlighted in green for easier comparison.
• Added the ability to assign custom hotkeys to the compositing and waveform menus.
• Improved the precision of the Lens Distortion effect for more accurate image correction and creative distortion workflows.
• Added object type filtering through the Properties window to simplify navigation in complex projects.
• Minor improvements and bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where Quick Access Toolbar customization did not work correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where the Quick Access panel in the Telemetry templates window could disappear after restarting the application.
  • Fixed an issue where columns in the Link media window could be deleted without an option to restore them.
  • Improved rendering of curves and shapes on sharp bends.
  • When combining objects into a sprite, applied effects are now transferred to the sprite as well.
  • Improved keyboard shortcut handling.
  • Fixed an issue where block movement could become locked when snapping to the grid at 200% zoom and with negative coordinates.
  • Fixed an issue where a pane could not be dragged between monitors in certain multi-monitor configurations.
  • Fixed Unicode handling in XMP metadata.
  • Other stability improvements and minor fixes.