Comparison of video editing software

Comparison of video editing software

This is a comparison of non-linear video editing software applications. See also a more complete list of video editing software.

Contents

General information

This table gives basic general information about the different editors:

Program Platform Developer Year of first release Year of latest release Latest version List price (USD) License
Adobe Premiere/Premiere Pro Windows/Mac Adobe Systems 1991 2011
2009
CS5.5 (64-bit only)
CS4 4.2.1 (32-bit)
$799 Proprietary
Adobe Premiere Elements Windows/Mac Adobe Systems 2004 2011 10.0 $100 Proprietary
Avid Free DV Windows/Mac Avid  ?  ? 1.8 Dropped Proprietary
Avid Xpress Pro Windows/Mac Avid 2003  ? 5.8 Dropped Proprietary
Avid Media Composer Windows/Mac Avid 1989 2011 5.5 $2124 Proprietary
Avidemux Windows/Mac/BSD/Linux Mean 2010 2.5.4 $0.00 GPL
AVS Video Editor Windows Online Media Technologies Ltd. 2004 2010 5.1 $59(Unlimited) Proprietary
Blender (VSE : Video Sequence Editor) Windows/Mac/Solaris/Irix/Linux Blender Foundation 2002 2011 2.60 $0.00 GPL
Cinelerra Linux/Mac Heroine Virtual 2002 2011 4.3 $0.00 GPL
Corel VideoStudio Windows Corel Corporation 1993 (Under Ulead) 2011 x4 $79.99, $99.99 Proprietary
CyberLink PowerDirector Windows Cyberlink 2001 2011 10 $69.95, $99.95 Proprietary
Dayang Montage Extreme Windows Dayang 2007 2009 1.2 $898 Proprietary
EditDV/Cinestream Windows/Mac Radius 1997 2002 3.0 Dropped Proprietary
Edius Windows Grass Valley Canopus 2002 2011 6.0.2 $799 Proprietary
Edit Studio PRO Windows Mediachance 1999 2010 6.0.5 $89 Proprietary
Elecard AVC HD Editor Windows Elecard 2008 2010 v. 1.0.100705 $49.95 Proprietary
Final Cut Express Mac Apple Inc. 2003 2007 4.0.1 Dropped Proprietary
Final Cut Pro/Studio Mac Apple Inc. 1999 2011 10.0.1 $299/$999 Proprietary
FORscene Cross-Platform (Java) Forbidden Technologies 2004  ? 15 April 2007 from $2/hour Proprietary
iMovie Mac Apple Inc. 1999 2010 9.0 $15; free on new Macs Proprietary
PiTiVi Linux Open Source Community 2004 2011 0.15 $0.00 LGPL
Kdenlive Linux/BSD/Mac Open Source Community 2002 2011 0.8 $0.00 GPL
Kino Linux/BSD Open Source Community 2000 2009 1.3.4 $0.00 GPL
Lightworks Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X Editshare & soon the Open Source Community 1989 2009 1.3 $0.00 Open Core
LiVES Linux/BSD/Mac Open Source Community 2002 2010 1.3.2 $0.00 GPL
MainActor Linux/Win MainConcept 2004 2007 5.5 Dropped Proprietary
Media 100 Mac Media 100 (now part of Boris FX) 2006 2010 1.5.1 $1295.00 Proprietary
NCH VideoPad Windows NCH Software Non-free Proprietary
Nero Vision Xtra/Nero Video Premium HD Windows Nero 2002 2011 10.6 $59.99 - $69.99 Proprietary
OpenShot Video Editor Linux Open Source Community 2008 2011 1.3.0 $0.00 GPL
Pinnacle Studio Windows Pinnacle Systems 1999 2011 15 $49.99 - $129.99 Proprietary
Pinnacle Videospin Windows Avid 2009 2009 2.0 $0.00 Proprietary
RaceRender Windows RaceRender LLC 2007 2011 2.4.1 $0.00 - $34.99 Proprietary
MoviePlus Windows Serif (Europe) Ltd. 2003 2011 X5 $79.99 Proprietary
Sony Vegas Pro Windows Sony Creative Software 1999 2011 11 $599.95 Proprietary
Sony Vegas Movie Studio Windows Sony Creative Software 2000 2010 10.0 $45 - $125 Proprietary
Ulead MediaStudio Pro Windows Ulead Systems (now part of Corel Corporation)  ? 2006 8.1 Dropped Proprietary
VideoThang TM Windows VideoThang LLC 2007 2008 2.0.1 Dropped Proprietary
VirtualDub Windows Avery Lee 2000 2010 1.9.10 $0.00 GPL
VirtualDubMod Windows 2002 2006 1.5.10.2 b2542 Dropped GPL
Windows Movie Maker Windows Microsoft 2000 2010 6.0.6000.16386 Bundled with Windows Proprietary
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Windows MAGIX circa 2001 (VideoDeluxe 1.0) 2011 17 plus $59.99 - $99.99 Proprietary

System requirements

This table lists the operating systems that different editors can run on without emulation, as well as other system requirements. Note that minimum system requirements are listed; some features (like High Definition support) may be unavailable with these specifications. (Note: for Corel VideoStudio, see the entry under Ulead VideoStudio plus.)

Windows Mac OS X Unix-like Processor RAM HDD
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 (32-bit) Yes Yes (as of CS3) No 1.4 GHz, SSE2 compatible processor 1 GB / 2 GB when editing HD 4 GB
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 (64-bit) Yes Yes No multicore x86-64 compatible processor 2 GB 10 GB
Adobe Premiere Elements Yes Yes (as of v9) No 2 GHz with SSE2 support 2 GB 4.5 GB
Avid Free DV Yes Yes No 933 MHz Pentium, 667 MHz PPC 1 GB  ?
Avid Media Composer Yes Yes No Pentium 4 or higher 2 GB 20 GB
Avid Xpress Pro HD Yes Yes No Pentium 4, PowerMac G5 1 GB 20 GB
Avidemux Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
AVS Video Editor Yes No No Intel / AMD compatible at 2500 MHz or higher 1 GB 1 GB
Blender (VSE : Video Sequence Editor) Yes Yes Yes 300 MHz 128 MB 20 MB free space
Cinelerra No Yes Yes 500 MHz 256 MB  ?
CyberLink PowerDirector Yes No No SSE2 compatible processor 512 MB 2 GB
Dayang Montage Extreme Yes No No Pentium 4 or higher 1 GB 20 GB
EDIUS Yes No No Pentium 4 3.0 GHz+ 1 GB 800 MB
Edit Studio PRO Yes No No Pentium II or AMD Athlon XP 1 GB 50 MB
Elecard AVC HD Editor Yes No No SSE-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium, Celeron, Xeon, AMD® Athlon, Opteron etc.) 128 MB 50 MB
Final Cut Express No Yes No 500 MHz 384 MB 1 GB
Final Cut Studio No Yes No 1.25 GHz G4, Intel Core Duo or Xeon 1 GB 4 GB Apps
FORscene Yes Yes Yes N/A 256 MB Any
iMovie No Yes No Intel based Macs 1 GB 5 GB
Kdenlive No Yes Yes 600 MHz 256 MB 1 GB
Kino GTK No No Yes ? ? ?
Lightworks Yes Yes Yes Core2Duo/Xeon/AMD 2GBmin 100Mb
LiVES No Yes Yes 800 MHz 128 MB 10 GB
MainActor Yes No Yes 700 MHz 128 MB  ?
Media 100 No Yes No 1.8 GHz G5 or better 2 GB  ?
MPEG Video Wizard DVD Yes No No 233 MHz 32 MB 20 MB
Nero Vision Xtra/ Nero Video Premium HD Yes No No 2 GHz AMD or Intel® processor 512 MB (1 GB for Windows Vista® or Windows® 7) / 2 GB when editing HD 5 GB
OpenShot Video Editor No Yes Yes 600 MHz 256 MB 1 GB
Pinnacle Studio MediaSuite Yes No No 1.4 GHz 512 MB 1.7 GB
Pinnacle VideoSpin Yes No No 1.4 GHz 512 MB 150 MB
PiTiVi No No Yes  ?  ? 2 MB
Serif MoviePlus Yes No No Pentium II or AMD Athlon XP 128 MB 149 MB
Sony Vegas Yes No No 2.0 GHz 1.0 GB 400 MB
Ulead MediaStudio Pro Yes No No 800 MHz 256 MB 800 MB
Ulead VideoStudio Plus Yes No No Pentium 4 or higher, SSE2 when editing HD 128 MB 3 GB
VirtualDub Yes No No ? ? 3 Mb
Windows Movie Maker Yes No No 1 GHz for best performance 128 MB 10 Mb
Windows Mac OS X Unix Processor RAM HDD

"Unix" includes the similar Linux, BSD and Unix-like operating systems.

High definition import

The table below indicates the ability of each program to import various High Definition video formats for editing.

720p HDV 1080i HDV DVCPRO HD Uncompressed HD IMX AVCHD XDCAM HD HDV AVC-Intra DNxHD REDCODE
Adobe Premiere Pro Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (3rd party) Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes (third party via codec install) Yes
Adobe Premiere Elements Yes Yes No No No Yes (As of 7.0)  ? Yes  ?  ?  ?
Avid Media Composer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Avid Xpress Pro Yes Yes Yes No No Yes  ? Yes  ? Yes  ?
Avidemux ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
AVS Video Editor Yes Yes  ? Yes No Yes  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
Blender Yes Yes  ? Yes No Yes  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
Cinelerra Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
CyberLink PowerDirector Yes Yes  ? Yes  ? Yes  ? Yes Yes  ?  ?
Dayang Montage Extreme Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
EDIUS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?  ?
Elecard AVC HD Editor Yes Yes No No No Yes No Yes  ?  ?  ?
Final Cut Express Yes Yes No No No Yes  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
Final Cut Studio Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes
FORscene Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
iMovie HD Yes Yes Yes (3rd party) No No Yes  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
Lightworks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
LiVES Yes Yes  ? Yes  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
PiTiVi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?
Kdenlive Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Kino GTK ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
MainActor  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
MPEG Video Wizard DVD Yes Yes  ?  ?  ? No  ? Yes  ?  ?  ?
Nero Vision Xtra/ Nero Video Premium HD Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No No
OpenShot Video Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Pinnacle Studio Yes Yes No No No Yes  ? Yes  ?  ?  ?
Serif MoviePlus Yes Yes ? ? No Yes  ? Yes  ?  ?  ?
Sony Vegas Yes Yes Yes (3rd party) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?  ? Yes (as of Pro 9)
Ulead MediaStudio Pro Yes Yes  ? Yes No  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
Ulead VideoStudio Plus Yes Yes  ? Yes No Yes  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
VirtualDub Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Movie Maker Yes Yes No No No Yes  ? Yes  ?  ?  ?
720p HDV 1080i HDV DVCPRO HD Uncompressed IMX AVCHD XDCAM HD HDV AVC-1 DNxHD REDCODE

Feature set

High Definition support Non-destructive editing Full-screen playback Storyboard mode Video tracks Audio tracks / max channels Linear timecode display GPGPU with OpenCL acceleration
Adobe Premiere Pro Yes Yes Yes, on separate monitor Yes 99 99 Yes No (CUDA on CS5 with few Nvidia card only)
Adobe Premiere Elements Yes Yes Yes Yes 99 99 Yes ?
Avid Xpress Pro Yes Yes Yes Yes 24 tracks, unlimited layers 24 tracks, unlimited layers Yes ?
Avidemux Yes Yes ? ? 1 2 / ? ? ?
AVS Video Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes 1 1+ Yes ?
Blender (VSE : Video Sequence Editor) Yes Yes Yes Yes Unlimited Unlimited Yes ?
Cinelerra Yes
(any resolution)
Yes Yes No Unlimited Unlimited / 16 Yes ?
Corel VideoStudio Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 4 Yes Yes
CyberLink PowerDirector Yes Yes Yes Yes 100 100 Yes Yes
Dayang Montage Extreme Yes Yes Yes Yes 99 per sequence 99 per sequence Yes ?
EDIUS Yes Yes Yes, on both PC & TV monitors in realtime No unlimited realtime layers unlimited realtime layers Yes ?
Elecard AVC HD Editor Yes Yes No No  ?  ? Yes  ?
Final Cut Express Yes Yes Yes, with "external video" Yes, in the Media Browser 99 per sequence 99 / 2 per sequence No ?
Final Cut Studio Yes Yes Yes, Yes, in the Media Browser 99 per sequence 99 / 24 per sequence Yes Yes
FORscene Input only Yes Yes (podcasts) Beta test 2 4 Yes ?
iMovie HD Yes Yes Yes Yes 1 2 Yes ?
PiTiVi Yes Yes Yes No Unlimited Unlimited  ? ?
Kdenlive Yes Yes Yes Yes Unlimited Unlimited Yes ?
Kino GTK ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
Lightworks ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
LiVES Yes
(any resolution)
Yes
(multitrack mode)
Yes
(on first, second or all monitors, configurable)
No Unlimited audio per video track + backing audio / 2 channels Yes ?
MainActor  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? ?
MPEG Video Wizard DVD Yes Yes Yes Yes 1 3 Yes ?
Nero Vision Xtra/Nero Video Premium HD Yes Yes Yes Yes Unlimited Yes Yes Yes (CUDA)
OpenShot Video Editor Yes Yes No No Unlimited Unlimited Yes ?
RaceRender Yes Yes Yes No 100 100 No ?
Serif MoviePlus Yes Yes Yes, & on separate monitor or TV Yes, partial Unlimited Unlimited No ?
Sony Vegas Pro Yes

(any resolution)

Yes Yes No Unlimited Unlimited/Max Channel 16 Yes ?
Pinnacle Studio Yes No Yes Yes 2 (3 via glitching the system) 4 Yes ?
Ulead MediaStudio Pro Yes Yes Yes, on separate monitor  ? 99  ? Yes ?
Ulead VideoStudio Plus Yes Yes Yes Yes 7 9 Yes ?
VirtualDub ? Yes No No 1 1 Yes ?
Windows Movie Maker Yes No Yes Yes 1 2 Yes ?
HD Non-destructive Full-screen Storyboard Video tracks Audio tracks Timecode display GPGPU with OpenCL acceleration

Output options

Please note that recording to Blu-ray does not imply 1080*50p . Most only support up to 1080i 25 frames per second recording. Also not all formats can be output, so for instance Premiere Pro cannot export AVCHD.

DVD High Definition Smart phone Java phone QuickTime Windows Media MPEG-4 XML/EDL Print to tape Web, not hosted Web, hosted Podcasting
Adobe Premiere Pro Yes Yes (Blu-ray) Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?
Adobe Premiere Elements Yes Yes (Blu-ray) Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Avid Xpress Pro Yes Yes (Blu-ray) No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No  ?
Avidemux ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ?
AVS Video Editor Yes Yes(Blu-ray) Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No
Blender (VSE : Video Sequence Editor) Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Cinelerra Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
CyberLink PowerDirector Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Dayang Montage Extreme Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? No
EDIUS Yes Yes  ? No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No  ?
Elecard AVC HD Editor No Yes No No No No Yes (Part 10) No No No No No
Final Cut Express Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes (3rd party) Yes No (as of 2.5) Yes Yes  ? Yes
Final Cut Studio Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes (3rd party) Yes Yes Yes Yes  ? Yes
FORscene No No Yes Yes Yes (MPEG 2) Yes (MPEG 2) ? Yes No Yes Yes Yes
iMovie HD Yes No Yes No Yes Yes (3rd party) Yes No Yes Yes Yes (with .Mac) Yes
PiTiVi Yes Yes  ?  ? Yes Yes Yes  ?  ? No No  ?
Kdenlive Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  ?
Kino GTK No No No No No No Yes No No No No No
Lightworks  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
LiVES Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No  ?
MPEG Video Wizard DVD Yes Yes  ?  ? Yes No Yes No No No No Yes
Nero Vision Xtra/Nero Video Premium HD Yes Yes (AVCHD, Blu-ray) Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No
OpenShot Video Editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Serif MoviePlus Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes  ?
Sony Vegas Yes Yes (Blu-ray) No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No  ?
Pinnacle Studio Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Ulead MediaStudio Pro Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No  ?
Ulead VideoStudio Plus Yes Yes Yes (via plug-in) Yes (via plug-in) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes (with DropShot)  ?
Blu-ray Slideshow Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
VirtualDub No No No No No No Yes No No No No No
Windows Movie Maker Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes (WMV only) No No
DVD High Definition Smart phone Java phone QuickTime Windows Media MPEG-4 XML/EDL Print to tape Web, not hosted Web, hosted Podcasting

Target market

Consumer Prosumer Professional High-End Movie Production
Least
expensive




Most
expensive

Kino
Avidemux
PiTiVi
LiVES
Pinnacle VideoSpin
Adobe Premiere Express
iMovie
Nero Vision Xtra
Nero Video Premium
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro
Avid Free DV
Windows Movie Maker
AVS Video Editor
MPEG Video Wizard DVD
Ulead VideoStudio
Elecard AVC HD Editor
Pinnacle Studio
Sony Vegas Movie Studio

CyberLink PowerDirector
OpenShot Video Editor
Final Cut Express(discontinued)
Final Cut Pro
Adobe Premiere Elements
Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum HD
Ulead MediaStudio Pro(discontinued)

Cinelerra
Blender(VSE)
Kdenlive
Dayang Montage Extreme
FORscene
Grass Valley EDIUS
Avid Xpress Pro(discontinued)
Final Cut Studio
Sony Vegas Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro

Lightworks
Avid Media Composer

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