looking for some good image and video editors

[Subbase]

can someone recommend some good free image and video editors for win 10

i wanna start doing my own covers,and some small videos for my tracks

what is out there,thats dont take a toll on the cpu?

[classic]

Best free Video Editor is Hitfilm express.
It even gives you a whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooole bunch of fx you can add to your movies.
Have look at their Homepage.
It is free and extremly cool.

[Steve Bolivar]

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Blackmagic Davinci Resolve 15 Released - Free D/L Avail

[woggle]

Gimp for free photo - but Affinity is only $50 and also excellent if you dont like Gimp

[THE INTRANCER]

Davinci Resolve 15 is a pretty heavy video editing application and will require a fairly beefy and fairly recent graphics card to make the most of it..as it has been found to be rather sluggish in playback on older one's or simply won't work.

Hitfilm 2018 is a good choice, it's deep enough for most things, similar to After Effects, and although playback is smoother and much better than what you might find in Resolve, trying to do more than one thing as a time whilst playing back material, can prove frustrating due to it stopping the playback (get use to using the space bar a lot).

Blender, the 3D app, has the capability for video editing.

There are others, but more cut down or a lot older...or stranger looking, also for Linux but Windows also like Openshot https://www.openshot.org/

[Unaspected]

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Blackmagic Davinci Resolve 15 Released - Free D/L Avail

Gimp for free photo

These.

Blender, the 3D app, has the capability for video editing.

Blender is amazing for a free application. There are also some really interesting third party plugins for syncing animation with audio and generating IRs as well.

Davinci Resolve 15 is a pretty heavy video editing application and will require a fairly beefy and fairly recent graphics card to make the most of it..as it has been found to be rather sluggish in playback on older one's or simply won't work.

I don't have a really powerful GPU (GTX 1050Ti) though I am running a Ryzen 1700x so I have plenty of CPU cores and Resolve doesn't seem to tax the system at all. It's worth checking out.

[4damind]

For covers I would not use a image editor and instead use a vector drawing program like the free Inkscape. Anyway, Gimp is always a good recommendation for a free image editor.

For video editors... Lightworks is a professional video editor which was used also in some Hollywood blockbusters like Mission Impossible or Pulp Fiction. The free version is limited to a resolution up to 720p, so it's good enough for Youtube clips etc. I made some of my latest clips exclusively with Lightworks. If you really need 2k, 4k etc. you can buy the Pro version for a month for 20€. It's cheaper compared to Adobe Premiere Pro (~24€/month) which would my second choice also for special features like "tracking".
I don't think you will make dozen of videos every month? So for a video editor I would think of investing this ~20€ and use some of the "big boys".

[sprnva]

I've used Resolve for the few vids I put on YouTube. It's overkill for what I do but it gives me a chance to get familiar with it. Hitfilm would do just as good.

For a free image editor there's also Paint.NET.

[artificial]

Video editor:
Lightworks: not the most intuitive piece of software, but really powerful
www.lwks.com

Photo editor:
As much as I love GIMP, I have to recommend Affinity Photo, it's super affordable (about 50 bucks) and very powerful!
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

[voidhead23]

Another vote for Davinci Resolve and Gimp. i particularly appreciate how Resolve cuts up your video tasks into separate tabs to really make you focus on one aspect (editing, coloring, sound) at a time.

[tooneba]

Davinch doesn't even open when you don't have a GPU which has enough power. Most discrete card will be enough though.

[woggle]

Photo editor:
As much as I love GIMP, I have to recommend Affinity Photo, it's super affordable (about 50 bucks) and very powerful!
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

I switched from years of Photoshop to Affinity a little while ago and whilst I still remember and miss Photoshop a bit, I doubt my editing / photos are any worse for the change. Might even be working a bit faster. Similarly I got rid of Premiere for PowerDirector and in some areas PowerDirector seems better. Just could not stand Adobe's pricing anymore and also realised that I was paying for functionality I never needed

[Ranoka]

Krita is probably the most popular free brush/painting alternative to Photoshop, in case you want to do any of that for your covers.
https://krita.org/en/features/highlights/

[4damind]

Davinch doesn't even open when you don't have a GPU which has enough power. Most discrete card will be enough though.

I would like to mention that the playback performance and also rendering performance can be very poor with Davinchi. I remember to export a 7min video with 720p@25 fps which needs between 30 to 40min with my i7 and the HD 4000 GPU! Playback was also very horrible with a lot of stuttering. Lightworks on the same machine was a dream, playback near realtime and exporting <7min. So my experience and why I recommend Lightworks: DaVinchi Resolve Beta 15 (the latest free version) has some really good features and can handle also high resolutions in the free version. But the downside is the poor playback and rendering performance. Their forum is full of topics about the poor performance, so it's not really clear if a high-end GPU would solve this performance problem.

[whyterabbyt]

Vegas has a budget option (Studio), and the Pro version has occasionally been silly-cheap via Humble Bundle.