Best YouTube Editing Software for Windows

These are the best YouTube video editing software you can use on Windows.

Filmora

Filmora Video Editor is the name you will hear from everyone familiar with video editing, it’s easy to use interface is loved by video editors, be it a beginner or a pro. With Filmora you can create professional-looking videos, with the help of drag and drop elements, creating something similar takes hours in other video editing software. Along with this, Filmora allows you to use other professional video editing techniques like de-noise, video stabilization, color grading, audio keyframing, adding royalty-free music from the built-in library, and more.

Pros:

Extremely intuitive and easy to useAccess to professional effects from Boris FX and NewBlue FXVariety of easy editing features like Instant Mode, AI Portrait, Speech-to-text, etc.Beautiful and fashionable sound effects, and royalty musicSimple color correction and audio editing (audio keyframe included)Advanced features like PIP, Green Screen, Tilt-shift, Mosaic, video stabilization, etc.Compatible with the most commonly used formats like MP4, MKV, MOV, FLV, etc.

Cons: Filmora is a freemium video editing software, and you need to pay to remove the watermark in the Free Trial Version

Sony Vegas Pro

Another popular video editing software for Windows users is Sony Vegas Pro. It offers advanced video editing tools you would ever need, like ike 3D editing, compositing, color correction, automatic crossfades, multi-cam editing, chroma-keying, and various special effects. But with the plus side of all those fancy features (that not all users would use), the User Interface is not so friendly, as the learning curve of the software will let you down and look for other options.

Pros:

Unlimited Video and audio tracksScene detectionKeyframing & automation controlWide range of formats support: Apple ProRes, HEVC 10bit 4:2:2, Sony XDCAM & XAVC, Panasonic AVCHD, RED RAW, Blackmagic RAWEasy for multi-cam video editing

Cons:

Not so easy interfaceSteep learning curves for budding YouTubers

Adobe Premiere Pro

Lastly, Adobe Premiere Pro is also a great video editor to edit YouTube videos. This powerful, popular video editor is packed with standard features (like text transcription in 14 languages), and effects, along with  Creative Cloud apps integration like  Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Frame.io. The not-so-user-friendly UI requires its own learning curve, but for that, you need to get yourself a subscription, as there’s no free trial unlike Filmora and Vegas Pro.

Pros:

Fast and stableTranscription & captioning toolsAutomatic audio remixingMultiplatform

Cons:

Doesn’t offer a free trialNo perpetual plan like FilmoraNot so easy for beginnersOccasional Bugs and Crashes with new updates

Best YouTube Editing Software for Mac

These are the best YouTube video editing software available for macOS users.

iMovie

If you are into the Mac ecosystem and looking for beginner editing software for YouTube videos, then iMovie is the right choice. With iMovie, you get access to editing controls like crop, trim, arrange video clips, and more. There are some pre-made video templates to guide you through the movie-making process. You can import clips in Pro Res, from your iPhone, and start working on your edit.

Pros:

Supports 4K editing, with clips shot in Pro ResCross-device sync between iPhone, iPad, MacBackground music dynamic recomposition and great visual effects

Cons:

Limited to Mac, and iOS users only

Final Cut Pro

Another video editor for MacOS, famous for its high-end video editing capabilities on Mac and frequently used by the industry’s leading professionals for their projects, Final Cut Pro is the software for hard-core video editors. With a wide variety of plugins, you can do almost anything in the Finalcut Pro, like Object Tracking, Cinematic mode, motion graphics, color grading, and voice isolation to enhance speech. With the recent update, you can even import and edit 360° equirectangular footage, and more.

Pros:

Supports 5K editing, with clips shot in Pro Res360° video editingHuge library for pluginsRegular updates.

Cons:

Expensive PluginsLimited to Mac users only

YouTube Editing Software for Android and iOS

Below is the YouTube editing software for your mobile, both Android and iOS.

Filmora Go

For all your mobile editing needs, Filmora Go (Android App, iOS App) is the go-to solution. As you get a ton of features that are easy to use, like crop, trim your videos, add voice-over on the go, apply special effects, different backgrounds, filters, keyframing and more. You can even edit short videos recorded from your phone, choose the audio from the built-in library, and export it, on the go. While there are other video editors available for mobile, they either are not user-friendly like Filmora Go, or they don’t offer such a wide variety of features.

Wrapping Up

So these are the best YouTube video editing software you can use for Windows, Mac, and mobile. Let us know, which one you would prefer to use. I hope you found this useful; if you did make sure to like and share. Check out other tips linked below, and stay tuned for more such tech tips, tricks, how-tos, and guides. You might be interested in:

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