There are many similar software, but of the ones I’ve seen, I truly liked the quality of this one. It compares very favorably with the likes of iMovie and Windows Movie Maker, which are similar products, while being much more lightweight and nicer to use than either of those. Despite being a pro myself, I didn’t mind how pared down it is,įor a small video editor suite, it packs quite a respectable wallop. The MiniTool MovieMaker software is free to download from the website and is a surprisingly excellent tool for crashing together professional-looking videos without any need for skill or hard work. The pricing is really not unreasonable, and if you find the software gives you good results, the only question left to answer is how often you’ll use it. The annual subscription has all of those features but costs $35.99, which is a considerable savings over the monthly rental.įor those who eschew subscriptions altogether, there’s also the option of a one-time lifetime buyout tier, the Ultimate Plan, for $59.99, with a license for three PCs. To release that limit, upgrade to the paid plan, a monthly subscription of $12.99 per month per PC, with free upgrades and no limit on length. Your first three exported videos can be any length, but the max length will shrink to two minutes per video on your next video. The free edition gives you access to all video effects, texts, elements, etc., and allows you to export 1080p videos without a watermark. The software is clean and simple, and it makes filmmaking no fuss. Making a video was easy and fun, and it’s not often that I say that about video software. Yet, still, MiniTool Moviemaker is very easy to use, and just dragging and trimming clips on the timeline is very easy and intuitive. Instead, you need to click on the clips to snap the cursor to the beginning of the selected clip and can scrub from there. Additionally, you can’t click anywhere on the timeline and put the play head there – you have to drag it there. You can work around this by making a black still image and fading between that and your first shot. The transitions work “between clips,” so of course you can’t put one in front of the first clip. I had trouble figuring out how to fade up from black at the beginning of video, and it took me a while to figure out why.

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