Video editing software?

We have used a free site called Clipchamp.  It's nothing fancy but you can put together a basic video that you can upload to Youtube and that seems to be all the coaches need to see.

If you have Windows 8 or below it comes with a program called Movie Maker, which will do the job fine. If you have Windows 10 you'll have to go to the app store and find something there that will work for you. There used to be a downloadable version of Movie Maker there but I'm not sure that is still the case.

I used OpenShot.  It is free.  It had some glitches (a year ago) but I was able to figure it out.

I second the recommendation of OpenShot.  We used it to create some great highlight videos.  It is fairly easy to use for the basics and its easy to export the video into a format that will load straight to YouTube.

Anybody using Adobe Premiere Pro? It is pretty advanced and takes a while to figure out, but once you do there are a ton of neat things you can do with the video. I can easily add new content to the projects, move things around, add text, slow motion, zoom in, etc.

I haven't used premiere pro in a while. For most video work I use Luma Fusion on an iPad. It works very very well for what it is, can handle multicam work, etc. For the price, can't be beat IMO.

For more heavy lifting I'm using Final Cut Pro.

+1 for MovieMaker

We used Adobe Premiere. Probably overkill for what was needed, but pretty versatile program. Easy to clean up lighting. I don’t know if any coaches really looked at it, but it kept me off the streets for hours!

@Los Angeles 2021 Parent posted:

We used Adobe Premiere. Probably overkill for what was needed, but pretty versatile program. Easy to clean up lighting. I don’t know if any coaches really looked at it, but it kept me off the streets for hours!

Which tool did you use to clean up lighting. I’ve just played with the brightness/contrast. It would be nice if they had an easy filter like Instagram

A parent of a 2021 that spent a year in the covid video-based recruiting process highly recommends DaVinci Resolve for video editing, so I have downloaded the free version and I am trying to learn how to use it's basic editing features - very complicated for an aging dad that grew up on polaroid and an 8 track music player.

I am now trying to do everything on my iPhone ... both filming and editing with iMovie on the same day the game is played. Using a keep it simple ... with a good enough appraoch. 

My wife splerged (at my son's asking) and bought me the Pocket Radar Smart Coach.  the radar connects with my phone's bluetooth, and the iPhone app is quite good for capturing my son's pitching appearances.  While in continuous mode, the Pocket Radar app knows how to tell my phone to save an 8 second file on my phone for each pitch with the velo dispayed in the video.  After the inning of pitching, I can quickly use iMovie to paste the 8 second clips into a complete at bat or complete half inning video. 

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My wife splerged (at my son's asking) and bought me the Pocket Radar Smart Coach.  the radar connects with my phone's bluetooth, and the iPhone app is quite good for capturing my son's pitching appearances.  While in continuous mode, the Pocket Radar app knows how to tell my phone to save an 8 second file on my phone for each pitch with the velo dispayed in the video.  After the inning of pitching, I can quickly use iMovie to paste the 8 second clips into a complete at bat or complete half inning video.

That is cool.  I didn't know it did that.  I like the 8 second segments.  I don't need the velo feedback, but might get one just to get the automatic 8 seconds of capture.  Anything else out there do this?

If you have a PitchLogic ball, their app that will auto-record, but wouldn't be useful for live game action.

I am using Windows 10 Video Editor, which I believe is bundled with Windows.  It is a bit basic, but it allows for adding text and its simplicity makes it useful.  I paid a videographer to shoot some video and put together a highlight reel, and his work is not better than what I can produce.

Movie Maker is extremely easy, and while it was not supported for a while by Microsoft (taken away, essentially), I think that the outcry was so bad that they put it back up for download.  That's been my platform of choice for years.

I also use Adobe Premiere. It is easy to use and has a lot of functionalities which may come in handy