The video editor from the creators of VLC Media Player
The developers of one of the most popular video players in the world, VLC Media Player, have started a new, promising project: Videolan Movie Creator.
We say “promising” because Videolan Movie Creator is still at a very early stage of development. According to developers, it’s just a pre-alpha release, with many key features missing and lots of bugs. But we were so eager to take a look at it that we couldn’t resist the temptation!
I must say that our testing of Videolan Movie Creator has been quite an adventure. Yes, the program is unstable and buggy, so expect quite a few crashes. Also, I wasn’t able to import images into the editor – only videos and audio files. But despite these problems, I think Videolan Movie Creator could become a really nice, easy-to-use video editor.
First of all, Videolan Movie Creator features a well-designed interface, in black, gray and orange. Also, it includes a wizard that guides you though your first steps with the program and which comes in especially handy when you’re creating your first project.
Finally, managing media in Videolan Movie Creator is really simple. You have the typical dual-screen interface featured in many video editors, and a timeline at the bottom. All you need to do is drag and drop your media there and then you can arrange it any way you want - cut it into fragments, add effects, you name it!
Videolan Movie Creator is still a very early alpha version, but it’s a very promising tool that will hopefully turn into a simple, powerful video editor.
User reviews about Videolan Movie Creator
by A JNorse
Complete garbage. Cannot import a gif. You can import a video to the preview section, then it gives you fake buttons to set markers and cut, then do absolutely nothing with it. No buttons work, no way to copy paste, ctrl + V puts it nowhere. Cutting a clip from media to put in the video is the most basic function of a video editor, and this program can't even reach that step. Can't drag media either. More
by Anonymous
Soo much potential!.
So yeah, at this point, it's not a ready to use program. Either way I downloaded it to test it out as I love the VLC Player. I have a lot of experience editting, and with this program it looks liek it hits on a number of key areas that other free software miss (I looking hard at you Movie Maker). For one, being able to apply multiple layers of both audio and video. Being able to easily serperate the audio layer from a video. Zooming in on the timeline for easy and precise movement of media. A seperate plane to view/hear imported media. Being able to import multiple media files quickly, easily, and in to a single easy to find location. Effects didn't work for me so can't make any comments on the interface for that, but hopefully they will do that interface well too. Only comment I would say it when zooming in on the timeline you are limited to only moving media as opposed to being able to crop and adjust them. Hopefully that's just for now. So much potential for something so young tho!!
Pros:
Simple, clean interface
Supports many file types so far
Imports mutltiple media files and types very easily
Media is easy to manage
Preview plane for imported media
Can work with multiple layers of video and audio
Can easily seperate audio from video
Can zoom in on timeline for easy/precise layer allignment
Cons:
Too young to use as real software
This program right now WILL CRASH on you as a result of the above mentioned More
by Anonymous
Quite unstable..
I look forward to the stable release. This version has more bugs than I can count. The editor itself is great, it just doesn't work like it should.
Pros:
Easy to use Cons:
Very unstable
Lots of bugs More
by Anonymous
Not ready for use!.
This program is not ready for use or even for testing for that matter!Crashed every time when trying to view a video after importing.The recovery feature did not work.Uninstalled!
Pros:
Free-ware I guess
Cons:
Does not work at all More