In VSDC Video files can be easily incorporated into a video project and edited right there. They are supported in various formats: H.265/HEVC, H.264, AVI, QuickTime (MP4/M4V, 3GP/2G2, MOV, QT), HDVideo/AVCHD (MTS, M2TS, TS, MOD, TOD), WindowsMedia (WMV, ASF, DVR-MS), DVD/VOB, VCD/SVCD, MPEG/MPG/DAT, Matroska Video (MKV), Real Media Video (RM, RMVB), Flash Video (SWF, FLV), DV, AMV, MTV, NUT, H.264/MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, MJPEG, WebM, Vp8, Vp9, BRAW (Blackmagic RAW).
If you want to adjust the parameters of a video file, select it on the timeline and navigate to the Properties window which is located on the right from the scene. The following options are available:
There’s also a number of buttons located on the timeline that can help you play your audio track, adjust the volume, etc. Here’s a detailed article about how to work with the timeline.
VSDC Editor is equipped with comprehensive support for almost all well-known formats and codecs, both for importing and exporting. Moreover, it comes at no cost. Explore the detailed table below for more information:
Color grading
Use it to apply the tools from the Color Correction panel to selected parts of a video.
Auto levels
Use it to automatically correct colors in your video or image file.
Auto contrast
Use it to automatically correct contrast in your video or image file.
Auto gamma
Use it to automatically correct gamma in your video or image file.
Recover after auto gamma
Use it to cancel the gamma correction effect.
Brightness / Contrast / Gamma
Use it to perform some color adjustments.
For brightness: negative values give a darker image and positive values give a brighter image.
For contrast: negative values give lower contrast and positive values give higher contrast.
For gamma: negative values give a darker image and positive values give a brighter image.
Red/Green/Blue
Use it to adjust red, green and blue levels in your original video or image file.
Hue / Saturation / Value
Use it to perform some color adjustments.
Hue: shifts the hue of every color, giving unnatural colors.
Saturation: makes colors to be desaturated or over saturated. The minimum value gives a black and white image.
Value: makes the picture lighter or darker. The minimum value gives a black screen.
Hue / Saturation / Lightness
Use it to perform some color adjustments.
Hue: shifts the hue of every color, giving unnatural colors.
Saturation: makes colors to be desaturated or over saturated. The minimum value gives a black and white image.
Lightness: makes the picture lighter or darker. The minimum value gives a black screen.
Luminance/ Chrominance (YUV)
Use it to reduce bandwidth for chrominance components and transform colors in your video or image file.
LUT
Use it to make footage look professional with one click presets.
Color twist
Use it to adjust colors in the footage by working directly with the RGB color channels and changing tone values.
Grayscale
Use it to transform colors of the picture to the gray part of the spectrum.
Equalize
Use it to make colors more saturated.
Equalize histogram
Use it to apply a quick filter for increasing an image contrast.
Colorize
Use it to adjust red, green and blue levels in the black and white version of your file.
Sepia
Use it to transform the color spectrum to brownish and yellowish photo paper.
Reducing bit resolution
Use it to give your image a fancywork look choosing an appropriate Dither type and changing the Noise and Levels values.
Posterize
Use it to reduce the apparent number of colors in a clip, changing gradients into flat areas of color.
Solarize
Use them to make video images reverse in tone.
Parabolize
Dark areas will appear lighter and vice versa.
Temperature
Use it to correct colors in video or images taken with incorrect white balance. Negative values make the image cooler and positive values make the image warmer.
Tint
Use it to change the lightness at the set value.
Inverse
Use it to invert the colors of an image.
Negative
Use it to replace every color with its negative color, like a film negative.
Black and white
Use it to turn videos into classic retro movies.
Threshold
Use it to determine how much contrast there is between neighboring pixels for the sharpening to affect them.
Box blur
Use it to create a kind of square distortion effect in the image.
Stack blur
Use it to imitate a moving pile of colors.
Gaussian blur
Use it to reduce contrast between adjacent pixels according to a mathematical equation.
Motion blur
Use it to apply the dim effect in a specific direction useful for extreme sports footing.
Sharpen
Use it to increase contrast and bring the images into better focus.
Pixelize
Use it to fade an image into pixels.
Wiener/DeNoise
Use it to apply a soft blur with a slight offset.
Noise
Use it to add some texture to an image by way of tiny pixel dustings.
Diffuse
Use it to make the selection look less focused.
Emboss
Use it to give an image a 3D look.
Minimal
Use it to emphasize the dark pixels in an image.
Maximal
Use it to emphasize the light pixels in an image.
Median
Use it to replace each pixel with a pixel that has the median color value of neighboring pixels.
Oil paint
Use it to attach an oil painting that looks similar to that of the Prisma application.
DeLogo
Use it to remove an unwanted object in a video.
Flip
Use it to flip an image horizontally or vertically.
Perspective
Use it to transform the perspective in an image horizontally or vertically.
Skew
Use it to skew the entire image horizontally or vertically.
Shift
Use it to move your image along X and Y axes.
Rotate
Use it to rotate the entire image.
Resample
Use it to multiply the entire image.
Zoom
Use it to magnify or reduce the image.
Mirror
Use it to duplicate a part of the image.
Crop
Use this tool to remove unwanted video borders preserving the original aspect ratio.
Distort
Use this effect to apply one of the distortion presets to the video: Faceted glass, Fish eye, Swirl, Whirlpool, Twirl, Polar, Explode, Wave, and others.
Lens distortion
Use this tool to fix images or videos shot with wide angle camera lenses.
Fade In
Use it to make the video smoothly appear on the screen.
Fade Out
Use it to make the video smoothly disappear from the screen.
Custom transparency
Use them to adjust the transparency of the video or image file.
Make opaque
Make transparent
Clipping
Use it to create a picture in picture effect adding a part or a whole image to your video.
Borders
Use it to create a frame around a photo or video.
Background remover
Use it to remove the background of the video and apply a chroma key effect.
TV
Use it to imitate bad quality of the broadcast video signal. There are four types of TV effects available.
Matrix
Use it to make the effect of falling code from the Matrix movie.
Glitch
Use it to create distortions like old VHS tapes.
Face landmarks
Use it to quickly add a motion tracked face mask to a video.
Al art generator
Use it to turn your media into unique stylish masterpieces by using over 20 presets.
VirtualDub filter
Use it to import VirtualDub plugins.
360 to 2D
Use it to flatten 360° footage to a panorama angle.
3D to 2Dr
Use it to convert 3D footage from stereoscopic view
Lens flare
Use it to imitate a strong source of light, such as sunlight both in the frame or outside of it.
Bokeh glare
Use it to add a soft blurry background to your footage with lights shining through it.
Raindrops
Use it to add the effect of falling raindrops to your video or achieve the foggy glass look.
God rays
Use it to create the illusion of three-dimensional rays of light passing through the gaps in the atmosphere or added object.
Fire
Use it to make a realistic fake fire on the video.
Water
Use it to add raindrops falling into the water on your video.
Smoke
Use it to create a smoky look of various intensity.
Plasma
Use it to apply the effect of liquid plasma to the entire image or a part of it.
Particles
Use it to add floating particles to the footage: leaves, snowflakes, or anything else.
Shadow
Use it to create a drop shadow effect for text and objects in video.
Paper burn
Use it to create a transition that imitates a burning piece of paper opening the following scene or media object.
Flow transform
Use it to create a fractal-driven image distortion.
Shattered glass
Use it to make shattered glass effect transitions.
Paint brush
Use it to gradually cover the video with brush strokes, or reveal the next image from under a coat of paint.
Chess
Use it to lay a semi transparent checkerboard on your video or image.
Wipe
Use them to apply a transition where one shot replaces another by traveling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
Push
Mosaic
Use it to look through a grid of lines on your video or image.
Page turn
Use it to turn a video image like a page of the book in various directions.
Diffuse FX
Use it to gradually fill the screen with black pixels.
Fade FX
Use it to gradually fill the screen with various textures.
This software can be downloaded from Free Video Editor description page.