General information

This table gives basic general information about the different editors:

Active

Discontinued / Inactive

Definition

• professional: used for full length Hollywood movies;
• professional (small): mainly used for paid commercials, short films or podcasts/YouTube channels;
• prosumer: Mainly targeting private use, anything that can do more than just trimming a film;
• basic: trimming a film;

System requirements

This table lists the operating systems that different editors can run on without emulation, as well as other system requirements. Note that minimum system requirements are listed; some features (like High Definition support) may be unavailable with these specifications.

"Unix" includes the similar Linux, BSD and Unix-like operating systems.

High definition/High resolution import

The table below indicates the ability of each program to import various High Definition video or High resolution video formats for editing.

Feature set

Output options

Please note that recording to Blu-ray does not imply 1080@50p/60p . Most only support up to 1080i 25/30 frames per second recording. Also not all formats can be output.

See also

• List of video editing software
• Comparison of video converters
• Photo slideshow software
• Non-linear editing
• Comparison of DVD ripper software

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