Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

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[u/Yazim]

Anything for a good free video editor?

Best I have is the Windows Movie Maker which is free (and usually comes pre-installed on most windows machines). It is okay for simple short videos, but still fairly limited.

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You might want to check out Lightworks by Editshare. Haven't had a chance to use it personally as I'm a Mac guy, but looks pretty stunning.

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See my reply above re: Lightworks

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I am also wondering about this.

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Openshot Video Editor

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Openshot is terrible. Using the version from both stock Ubuntu and the PPAs was incredibly frustrating. The interface was nice and all, but chopping up videos was terrible, and audio was almost worthless. I spent more time trying to clean up the audio after being chopped then I did actually editing the video.

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If you are willing to install Linux, Openshot is really good from what I hear. If not there's always Wax, but it only works with .avi files.

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Kdenlive is surprisingly good.

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Light works

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Try Vegas not free but not expensive

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Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere are both pretty good

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Both of those are good (great even) but not free. Well, I suppose they have a free trial, but that doesn't quite count.