What is up guys?
This is Andy with Channel Empire.
Today we're gonna go over the best video editing
software applications for YouTube videos.
I sat down, thought very hard and narrowed
this list down to eight video editors.
I know there's a lot more out there but these
are just my personal recommendations for YouTubers
for editing your videos.
And the first four are going to be free so
they will be free for anybody to download
and use.
It's going to be Mac and PC.
The last four video editing applications are
going to be paid.
Two are intermediate and the last two are
gonna be the professional video editors that
you can use for YouTube so let's get right
into this list.
Starting off with the free basic video editing
software applications for your YouTube videos
with the first being obviously the YouTube
editor.
This is free for all YouTubers and you can
get to it by going to YouTube.com/editor while
you're logged into YouTube.
And you're going to see this little window
here.
It is very basic and it's online so you have
to upload your videos and do it all online
through YouTube.
So it's not going to get you far.
I don't recommend using it for a long time
but it's good that YouTube offers this for
people who don't have any other video editor
to use.
You can start off with using this.
YouTube editor at YouTube.com/editor.
Okay the next one is going to be for Windows
users.
If you are on a PC use Windows Movie Maker.
It's free.
It's a free download.
It's very basic again but it will do the job
that you need to do.
Split your videos up.
Maybe add some effects or some transitions,
stuff like that.
It'll get you where you need to be to have
a basic video editor for free on a Windows
machine.
The next one is if you're a Mac user go ahead
and use iMovie.
iMovie is a fantastic video editor that comes
with all Macs.
I used iMovie for a couple years when I first
started doing YouTube videos and it worked
great for me.
It's easy-to-use and it does get you used
to that whole interface that we can move onto
Final Cut Pro that we'll talk about later
in this video.
So iMovie is great if you're a Mac user.
I do highly recommend you start off with that.
And if you are a Mac or Windows user and you're
looking for something else, LightWorks is
a great free video editor that you can download
and use on Windows or Mac.
I've never used this personally but I do see
this recommended a lot for free video editing
software applications so if you want to try
that out it is available for you for free.
Now those were four free basic video editors
that I recommend.
The next two are gonna be intermediate video
editing applications so if you want to step
up a little bit step your game up a little
bit you can use these two.
So we'll start off with Camtasia.
Camtasia is a decent video editing application.
It also captures your screen.
So these intermediate video editors that I'm
talking about, these two will be able to record
your video screen because you will need that
at some time.
Camtasia is a little pricey but for what it
does it is extremely worth it so try that
out if you're a Windows user.
If you're a Mac user I recommend ScreenFlow
instead of Camtasia.
ScreenFlow is little bit cheaper and I love
it.
It's easy to use.
It captures your screen if you need to record
your computer screen.
As itself it's a great video editor.
I use it all the time.
I used to use this.
Right after I moved on from iMovie I used
Screenflow for almost all my videos for a
period of time there.
So I do recommend that if you are a Mac user.
Again if you're a Windows user I recommend
Camtasia.
The last two video editing applications that
I want to talk about are the professional
video editors.
So if you want to go all out and want the
most powerful video editing application that
you can have for your YouTube videos and learn
it so let's go over these last two video editors.
The first one is going to be Adobe Premiere
Pro.
This is one of the most powerful video editing
applications for users and it's what a lot
of tech YouTubers use but it is available
for Mac and Windows users so it's available
for everybody.
But it is a subscription-based service so
you will have to pay twenty bucks a month
for this subscription to have access to Adobe
Premiere Pro but it is worth it.
It is the most powerful.
It does a lot of stuff things that you don't
even think about that you need to do but once
you find out that you can do you will want
to do them.
Adobe is known to make great products and
this is one of their best products that they
make.
So Adobe Premiere Pro.
A very powerful video editor if you want to
jump into that.
If you are coming from iMovie if you're on
a Mac coming from iMovie I do recommend going
to Final Cut Pro instead of Adobe Premiere
Pro just because you'll probably find the
interface a little more intuitive, more familiar.
It might just come easier to you if you're
coming from iMovie and this is what I use
primarily for almost all of my videos nowadays
is Final Cut Pro X on my Mac.
It's not quite as powerful as Adobe Premiere
Pro but it will do almost everything that
you need to do and I'm just so used to it
and I work great with it.
The main thing with these video editing applications
is pick one that you will stick with and just
once you pick it stick with it, learn it.
Edit as much as you can on it so you can get
used to that routine and the more you edit
with it the faster you'll get.
Your routine, your process is going to get
and the faster you'll be able to pump out
YouTube videos and that's the most important
thing.
So pick a video editor.
Stick with it.
Learn it.
Master it.
That's my best advice for you along with these
8 recommendations for video editing software
applications that you want to use for your
YouTube videos.
If you guys are interested in any tutorial
course or want to learn about how to use some
of these video editing applications just let
me know in the comment section below because
if I get enough requests I might put together
a little course on how to use some of these
different video editors so let me know.
Also let me know which one you use already
or if there's ones that I missed let me know
what's your favorite.
Just leave a comment down below and I'll definitely
read your comments.
I read all my comments, and while you're still
here looking at my goofy face why don't you
join the Channel Empire VIP email club and
get your free eBook "The top 5 steps to profit
from YouTube".
Go ahead and do it.
Click that right there and join the community
here at Channel Empire.
My name is Andy.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you guys in the next video.
Bye.
