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Shotcut - Free Open Source Video Editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Shotcut Open Source Video Editor. I've been on the hunt for a while now for the best, free, open source, video editing application out there. In Shotcut , by Meltytech , which has versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, I think I may have found a real front runner. This won't be a feature filled review, rather it will be my first impressions after having used Shotcut on a few of my YouTube videos so far. One of my key criteria for a video editor is the ability to import any video format directly into the project. This may seem like an odd focus initially but having convert video to something your video editor can use is annoyingly time consuming, and it creates a new generation of footage, potentially with a loss in quality if you don't really know much about video format specs (that's this guy right here!). Shotcut will happily work with my OBS recordings (.FLV), and .MOV, .MP4 files that I get from two different cameras. Not only that but Shotcut doesn't hold me up ...

Learn 2D Animation | Tutorial for Beginners | Easy to Follow Mini Video Course for Busy People

Anime Scene by 2D Animation 101. Learn how to produce animation like this. Learn 2D animation with a tutorial for beginners that is an easy to follow mini video course for busy people. Get started by devoting just ten minutes a day to learn the step by step plan you need to make it easy to produce your own 2D animations. 2D Animation 101 presents a free 2D animation foundation course that runs you through the entire process of producing professional, cinema quality animation, from idea through to finished production using Cartoon Animator 4 as your primary animation studio. Each section of the course includes a few short videos that can be viewed in around ten minutes, with the whole course taking just five days overall (ten minutes per day). At the end of the course you'll receive three free printable workbooks to help produce your next animation using the step-by-step plan you just learned. If you've always wanted to produce your own animated cartoons but thought you could...