Affinity video editing

[rongittings]

The Affinity suite is just great. I use Publisher and Photo all the time and Designer occasionally. Serif used to do a video editing program, are there any plane to re-introduce this? It would be great to ditch Adobe once and for all.

 

Ron

[Dave.Kelly]

Try DaVinci Resolve its free.

[dominik]

1 hour ago, rongittings said:

The Affinity suite is just great. I use Publisher and Photo all the time and Designer occasionally. Serif used to do a video editing program, are there any plane to re-introduce this? It would be great to ditch Adobe once and for all.

 

Ron

Hi @rongittings,

sorry to dissapoint you. This has been requested many times and Serif had been clear that they are currently not planning to do this.
This is a rather old comment on this topic but I think it is still valid:

d.

[PaoloT]

1 hour ago, dominik said:

Serif had been clear that they are currently not planning to do this.

How odd. There is a lot of money to do, in competing with free, powerful, industry-standard applications!

 

[dominik]

12 hours ago, PaoloT said:

in competing with free

How can one make lots of money in competition with a free and very powerfull and well developed software like Davinci Resolve?

d.

[Dave.Kelly]

I think he was joking

[mopperle]

I also can recommend Davinci Resolve. It replaced Adobe Premiere on my side. It is a professional tool and you need to learn a lot. But It is worth the effort. It is very well documented and there are very good video tutorials available, even one in German.

Asking how such a tool can be free? Blackmagic Design, the company behind it makes its money with highend videocameras, special keyboards and consoles for professional video producers. There is also a paid version (still quite cheap, currently $235) which supports resolutions up to 32k and 120fps and much more. But the free version is good enough for non-profeesionals like us

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/

BTW. They also offer a powerfull video app for iPhone and Android.

 

[PaoloT]

1 hour ago, mopperle said:

It is a professional tool and you need to learn a lot.

Very often, all you need is something much simpler, like iMovie. All Mac users have it, but there is the usual quest for something "more mainstream" preventing one to go for the easier, faster, more efficient solution.

Paolo

 

[dominik]

4 hours ago, Dave.Kelly said:

I think he was joking

Thanks. The joke is a little hidden, but by reading @PaoloT's post again I can see some irony.

d.

[mopperle]

Not all users hav a mac and needing advanced capapbilities got nothing to do with "more mainstream"

[Ron P.]

I'll also jump in here and offer my recommendation for DaVinci Resolve. Where can you get 5 apps that act in concert with each other, or you can choose to just make use of one, or more of them? I mentioned 5 apps, that does not include the Media and Deliver pages.

• Cut Page. You could choose to do all your editing here. Many skip this, and go to the Edit page
• Edit Page This is so powerful. Does way more than apps that will cost you over $50-100 just to do what this part of Resolve can do.
• Fusion Page-Node editing, outshines the old After Effects
• Color Page-Considered one of the best in the business for Color Grading
• Fairlight Audio Page-What can't you do with your audio in here?

The Media page is where you import your files, video, images, audio, and then have numerous ways to organize, by metadata, file name, keywords. Oh and it will automatically create "Bins", it's what they call the folder structure. Create individual Timelines, and on and on.

The Deliver page is where you export your productions. You can setup a multitude of different files, for delivery. You can then start the export process, producing several different file types, sizes, ect, to go through, allowing you to go do other things while it produces the files.

All of that above can be done in the Free version. It can do more in the Paid version, but really not much. For $235 (US), it's peanuts compared to what Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro will cost you.

Finally, I personally think Serif would be insane to think it could produce an app that could come close. They would have to ask at least $1,000 for it. As Mopperle stated, Blackmagic makes all it's money from the very high-end consoles, keyboards, ect. When you buy one of their keyboards or consoles, they throw the app, the Pro version in for free. I mean you just dropped $500 to over $10,000 buying a product of theirs.