Later this year we’ll focus on VIDEO EDITING as a digital theme. We’ll bring you beautifully formed explainer videos using the popular editing applications below…
Adobe Premiere Pro
Part of Adobe Creative Cloud and paid for by yearly or monthly subscription, Premiere Pro is targeted at enthusiasts and professional creatives. It includes all the tools you’ll need for importing files, sequencing and exporting a video masterpiece! This software is a proven choice in a range of professional environments, though for specialised editing roles in TV and film you may also like to take a look at AVID Media Composer, which is geared towards team-based production environments.
A 30 day free trial of Premiere Pro is available – Long enough for you to work through our explainer series!
Vegas Pro
Vegas Pro can be purchased outright or on a subscription basis. The subscription version includes access to stock video clips and audio files and additional functionality including high quality text-to-speech and mobile-to-timeline support. Vegas Pro runs well on average laptops and is popular with content creators who need more than the basics but don’t require a full Adobe subscription. You can download a 30 day trial.
The free option: Shotcut
A completely free video editor just for you! If you’re taking your first steps this year there’s no need to pay a penny. Feel free to download it now! Note we won’t be covering Shotcut in our explainer series.
AI enhanced video editing: runway.ml
As part of its suite of online generative AI tools, runway.ml includes a simple timeline video editor. If you’ll be editing video for ideation and storyboarding, this could be the perfect 2025 option for you! We’ll be using runway.ml later this year to generate short video clips, though we won’t use it as a dedicated video editor. You can start with runway for free, while a paid account includes credits towards a range of generative AI features including image and video generation.
AI storyboarding and visualisation: LTX Studio
It’s not strictly speaking a video editor, but as a starting point for storyboarding and blocking out your next epic video it can’t be beaten! Just enter your filmic idea (E.g. A futuristic fantasy where AI has gone rogue – Again!) and it can generate a shotlist for you. It can even generate short video visualisations for each shot, which you can tweak until you’re happy!
Worth a look: Davinci Resolve
Offering a generous FREE version and full-length tutorials, Resolve sits alongside Premiere Pro in the ‘enthusiast to pro’ category of video editors and is also a popular option:
