Movavi Video Editor Plus

About this release

Not every video needs a professional post suite, and this is the editor for the ones that do not. Drag clips onto a timeline, trim them, drop a transition between them, add a title, put music underneath and export. Someone who has never edited anything can produce a watchable family video, holiday cut or short presentation in an evening, and the interface never demands more understanding than the task requires.

Underneath the simplicity there is more capability than the first impression suggests. Multiple video and audio tracks, keyframed movement and opacity, chroma key for green screen work, picture in picture, speed ramping, stabilisation, colour adjustment and a reasonable set of filters and overlays are all present. Enough for a small business promotional video or a channel that publishes weekly.

The bundled content matters for this audience. Transitions, titles, stickers, backgrounds and a royalty free music and sound effects library are included, so a video can be finished without going looking for assets. Titles are edited directly on the preview with fonts, colours and animation timing adjustable in place.

Export is preset driven rather than a codec dialogue. Choose a destination and a quality level and the settings follow. For people who want control, the manual export panel exposes codec, bitrate, frame rate and resolution, and hardware acceleration cuts the render time substantially on a machine with a capable graphics card.

What it does

Simple timeline

Drag, trim, split and reorder with multiple video and audio tracks and no setup before starting.

Chroma key and overlays

Green screen removal, picture in picture and animated overlays on the same timeline.

Bundled content library

Transitions, titles, stickers, backgrounds, music and sound effects included with the install.

Stabilisation and speed control

Smooth handheld footage and build slow motion or time lapse from the same clip.

Preset export

Pick a destination and quality level and the encoder settings follow, with a manual panel for anyone who wants it.

Hardware accelerated rendering

Use the graphics card encoder to cut export times substantially.

Changed in this version

• Timeline redraw is faster on projects with many short clips.
• New transition and title packs added to the bundled library.
• Stabilisation reworked for less cropping at the frame edges.
• Improved import of variable frame rate phone footage.
• Export presets updated for current publishing targets.

System requirements

Install order

1. Unpack the archive and run the installer.
2. Choose whether to install the full bundled content library during setup.
3. Point the project cache at a drive with plenty of free space.
4. Open the application once and let the effect library index before importing media.

Worth knowing before you start

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