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:
Group
Effect
Description
Adjustments
Use it to apply the tools from the Color Correction panel to selected parts of a video.
Use it to automatically correct colors in your video or image file.
Use it to automatically correct contrast in your video or image file.
Use it to automatically correct gamma in your video or image file.
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.
Use it to adjust red, green and blue levels in your original video or image file.
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.
Use it to make footage look professional with one click presets.
Use it to adjust colors in the footage by working directly with the RGB color channels and changing tone values.
Use it to transform colors of the picture to the gray part of the spectrum.
Use it to make colors more saturated.
Use it to apply a quick filter for increasing an image contrast.
Use it to adjust red, green and blue levels in the black and white version of your file.
Use it to transform the color spectrum to brownish and yellowish photo paper.
Use it to give your image a fancywork look choosing an appropriate Dither type and changing the Noise and Levels values.
Use it to reduce the apparent number of colors in a clip, changing gradients into flat areas of color.
Use them to make video images reverse in tone.
Dark areas will appear lighter and vice versa.
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.
Use it to change the lightness at the set value.
Use it to invert the colors of an image.
Use it to replace every color with its negative color, like a film negative.
Use it to turn videos into classic retro movies.
Use it to determine how much contrast there is between neighboring pixels for the sharpening to affect them.
Filters
Use it to create a kind of square distortion effect in the image.
Use it to imitate a moving pile of colors.
Use it to reduce contrast between adjacent pixels according to a mathematical equation.
Use it to apply the dim effect in a specific direction useful for extreme sports footing.
Use it to increase contrast and bring the images into better focus.
Use it to fade an image into pixels.
Use it to apply a soft blur with a slight offset.
Use it to add some texture to an image by way of tiny pixel dustings.
Use it to make the selection look less focused.
Use it to give an image a 3D look.
Use it to emphasize the dark pixels in an image.
Use it to emphasize the light pixels in an image.
Use it to replace each pixel with a pixel that has the median color value of neighboring pixels.
Use it to attach an oil painting that looks similar to that of the Prisma application.
Use it to remove an unwanted object in a video.
Transforms
Use it to flip an image horizontally or vertically.
Use it to transform the perspective in an image horizontally or vertically.
Use it to skew the entire image horizontally or vertically.
Use it to move your image along X and Y axes.
Use it to rotate the entire image.
Use it to multiply the entire image.
Use it to magnify or reduce the image.
Use it to duplicate a part of the image.
Use this tool to remove unwanted video borders preserving the original aspect ratio.
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.
Use this tool to fix images or videos shot with wide angle camera lenses.
Transparency
Use it to make the video smoothly appear on the screen.
Use it to make the video smoothly disappear from the screen.
Use them to adjust the transparency of the video or image file.
Use it to create a picture in picture effect adding a part or a whole image to your video.
Use it to create a frame around a photo or video.
Use it to remove the background of the video and apply a chroma key effect.
Special FX
Use it to imitate bad quality of the broadcast video signal. There are four types of TV effects available.
Use it to make the effect of falling code from the Matrix movie.
Use it to create distortions like old VHS tapes.
Use it to quickly add a motion tracked face mask to a video.
Use it to turn your media into unique stylish masterpieces by using over 20 presets.
Use it to import VirtualDub plugins.
360 and 3D
Use it to flatten 360° footage to a panorama angle.
Use it to convert 3D footage from stereoscopic view
Nature
Use it to imitate a strong source of light, such as sunlight both in the frame or outside of it.
Use it to add a soft blurry background to your footage with lights shining through it.
Use it to add the effect of falling raindrops to your video or achieve the foggy glass look.
Use it to create the illusion of three-dimensional rays of light passing through the gaps in the atmosphere or added object.
Use it to make a realistic fake fire on the video.
Use it to add raindrops falling into the water on your video.
Use it to create a smoky look of various intensity.
Use it to apply the effect of liquid plasma to the entire image or a part of it.
Use it to add floating particles to the footage: leaves, snowflakes, or anything else.
Use it to create a drop shadow effect for text and objects in video.
Transitions
Use it to create a transition that imitates a burning piece of paper opening the following scene or media object.
Use it to create a fractal-driven image distortion.
Use it to make shattered glass effect transitions.
Use it to gradually cover the video with brush strokes, or reveal the next image from under a coat of paint.
Use it to lay a semi transparent checkerboard on your video or image.
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.
Use it to look through a grid of lines on your video or image.
Use it to turn a video image like a page of the book in various directions.
Use it to gradually fill the screen with black pixels.
Use it to gradually fill the screen with various textures.