Does FL Studio have video editing capabilities?

[SparkySpark]

The heading says it all (almost).

I'm trying to confirm there there is no video editing capability in FL Studio. Ideally, I'd appreciate a list of DAWs that _do_ have the ability to do (rudimentary or complex) video editing, say, for a music video.

Thanks!

Petter

[THE INTRANCER]

Have you not seen this thread in the past month ?

The Dawn Of New Daws - DaVinci Resolve 14 Fairlight Audio -

[SparkySpark]

Thanks, no I haven't! Not sure it's applicable in my case but I will sure try it out. Very cool software!

[Sam-U]

I'm trying to confirm there there is no video editing capability in FL Studio. Ideally, I'd appreciate a list of DAWs that _do_ have the ability to do (rudimentary or complex) video editing, say, for a music video.

I know it has a sync video player for doing soundtracks to film sequences and it has some sort of visual generator for abstract sequences. But I'm not aware of any real video editing capabilities.

Pro Tools can cut video clips, but cannot put fx/fades on it afaik, same for Cubase & Ableton. In the end DAWs are still made for audio and just for video-sound-corrections, doing soundtracks and so on. To edit video there is separate software dedicated to do all the stuff you want

Have you not seen this thread in the past month ?

The Dawn Of New Daws - DaVinci Resolve 14 Fairlight Audio -

After a quick test: it's unstable, has no MIDI (and since this imo it isn't a full DAW in the 1st place either), has problems reading some video codecs and massive problems scanning my vst plugins

[THE INTRANCER]

After a quick test: it's unstable, has no MIDI (and since this imo it isn't a full DAW in the 1st place either), has problems reading some video codecs and massive problems scanning my vst plugins

Are you the OP (opening poster of this thread) ? No, you're not. Just as in real life, you don't jump in front of someone when they have asked a question, which wasn't yours to receive an answer to in the first place, and one in which only the OP can determine is any value to them in what information he/she finds.

[Sam-U]

After a quick test: it's unstable, has no MIDI (and since this imo it isn't a full DAW in the 1st place either), has problems reading some video codecs and massive problems scanning my vst plugins

Are you the OP (opening poster of this thread) ? No, you're not. Just as in real life, you don't jump in front of someone when they have asked a question, which wasn't yours to receive an answer to in the first place, and one in which only the OP can determine is any value to them in what information he/she finds.

So I'm not allowed to state my experiences & opinion about a software you've advertised? Welcome to the internet...

[sjm]

The answer is "it depends". Depends on what you want to do and how many hoops you want to jump through to get there.

If you just want to stitch together actual video footage, then FL Studio is the wrong choice to do that in. It's easier in Windows Movie Maker

You can do a lot of cool video stuff with ZGameVideoEditor, and you could theoretically create a full music video with it, depending on your needs. It's however much better suited to creating cool video effects, the sort of thing you might project on a wall at a rave, rather than a traditional music video featuring a band and action shots etc. That said, you can load up your own videos and blend between them using automation in the timeline. But it's definitely not the best way to do something like this.

What ZGameEditorVisualizer is excellent for is for processing videos. You can do all sorts of very funky stuff. Aside from the obvious things like colour correction or adding scan lines, you can use videos (and images) as the source for all sorts of weird and wacky effects. So you can have your video flying around the screen, or displayed as fractals. You can warp them over time. Or you can layer additional effects over your source video, some of which are pretty cool.

You can also use FL Studio's in-built controllers (e.g. peak controller, envelope controller, keyboard controller) to automate parameters in the video FX based on your music. For example, you could link note velocity to the colour of the lightning effects, or have notes on your synth trigger stars that fade out slowly. That makes it quite good for making videos for things like trance where a psychedelic kaleidoscope with FX synced to the kick and snare can be great.

So I would definitely recommend something else for traditional video editing, but can wholeheartedly recommend ZGameEditorVisualizer as a step in the video-making process. I do however doubt that buying FL Studio just for ZGameEditorVisualizer is worth it unless it is really something you need. I'm assuming it is fully functional in the demo though, and you can probably export your videos. You just won't be able to reload your projects with the demo version IIRC. If all you want to do is create a short but cool FX sequence to use in your music video, you can do that in 5-15 minutes. That means no big loss if you can't come back and edit things later.

[Topcheese]

Mixcraft 8 has basic video editing, I haven't had to a chance to really use it yet, so I can't really comment on it.

[SparkySpark]

Hi there,

Thanks all for your input. And I do agree - no worries taking the KVR threads further than I as an OP intended - that's what differ us from StackOverflow (excuse my French ).

Thanks again,

Petter

[tooneba]

After a quick test: it's unstable, has no MIDI (and since this imo it isn't a full DAW in the 1st place either), has problems reading some video codecs and massive problems scanning my vst plugins

Are you the OP (opening poster of this thread) ? No, you're not. Just as in real life, you don't jump in front of someone when they have asked a question, which wasn't yours to receive an answer to in the first place, and one in which only the OP can determine is any value to them in what information he/she finds.

So I'm not allowed to state my experiences & opinion about a software you've advertised? Welcome to the internet...

Don't feed the troll

[jancivil]

DaVinci Resolve 14 Fairlight Audio

After a quick test: it's unstable, has no MIDI (and since this imo it isn't a full DAW in the 1st place either), has problems reading some video codecs and massive problems scanning my vst plugins

'wink'? I have used it for video editing, albeit mainly to export a video using PCM audio. It is stable here (OLD computer, not even vaguely up to spec for the thing), and its scanning of AUs and VSTs has not produced a problem. Nor has loading a plugin, yet. It's quite responsive.

Apparently it's only going to deal in 64-bit.

As a DAW, well, it isn't. Its ease-of-use with audio, well it has a mixer which is what I expect and audio editing is easier than in FCPX.

For replacing audio in a video it's pretty peachy. As a video editor it's quite powerful. However people that ask about video editing in an actual DAW are not video editors so such a thread is fraught with its own issues.

[inkwarp]

if you are looking for an app. that is ideal for editing sound and image then Vegas is the way to go. imho.