VSDC runs on Windows 2000 and later. The editor supports video, audio, and image files recorded on smartphones, action cameras, professional cameras, drones,^[3] and can be used for all common video editing tasks^[4] necessary for producing broadcast-quality, high-definition video.^[5]

Basic video editing features edit

• Cutting, splitting into parts, merging, trimming, cropping, rotating, flipping, playback reversal, changing volume
• Resizing, quality and resolution settings
• Video stabilization
• Speed change, including 2 reframing modes for a perfect slow-motion effect
• Text and subtitle insertion
• Text effects: Recoloring, Shift position, Glyph FX, scrolling text effect
• Curve lines allows for drawing the lines and wrapping text around them
• Slideshow wizard offering 70+ transition effects
• Snapshots
• DeLogo filter that automatically hides unwanted elements in a video with a blurred or pixelated mask
• 360-degree video to 2D video conversion
• 3D video to 2D video conversion
• Quick Instagram-like filters
• In-painting mask modes to help repair corrupted pieces of an image or video.
• Full-featured text editor for titles and text-related effects.
• Embedded video converter supporting more than 20 formats
• Built-in screen recorder
• Built-in voice recorder^[6]

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  Cropping
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  Quick styles
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  Color correction
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  Export profiles

Advanced post-production edit

Motion tracking—the software allows for tracking the movement of any element in a video and attaching a title, an icon, an image, or a mask to the resulted trajectory. With this feature, users can apply a censorship mask to a moving object, and make a title follow the object it's attached to.
Color correction
Apart from the standard tools of automatic contrast, brightness, and temperature adjustment, VSDC^[7] offers color correction solutions:

• LUT editor that allows users to apply built-in and 3rd-party LUTs within VSDC, as well as create unique custom LUTs and export them for future use in 3-rd party editors
• RGB curve modifying the aspect of the whole video or image per selected color (red, green, blue or white).
• Lift, Gamma, Gain & Offset color wheels for primary color correction
• Hue Saturation curves defining color region per six colors and enables to modify the aspect of a video or an image based on the selected color.
• Gradient tool allowing for creating a gradual blend between multiple colors
• 20+ standard color adjustments
• The Scopes window, including the Vectorscope, allows to monitor the results of the color correction in real-time mode.

Mask tool – enables to apply one or several filters to a certain part of a video or an image
30+ blending modes
Movement and Time remapping – the objects on the scene can move following a chosen trajectory with the speed set by keyframes
Animation – illusion of motion and change of any static objects in the scene by means of the rapid display of a sequence of these objects
Multicam editing - this feature allows for switching between different camera angles and makes it easy to capture the perfect shot
Chroma Key ^[8] – 3 modes for removing any color from the video (typically used for replacing green background): HSL, YUV, and "By Chroma Key mask"
Video effects:

• 15 filters including De-interlacing, Pixelize, De-logo and Blur
• 8 transformation effects including Zoom, Mirror, Distort, and Resample
• OpenGL effects: Lens flare, Bokeh glare, and Raindrops
• A set of transition effects including transparency adjustment (Paper burn, Flow transformation, Shattered glass, Page turn and more)
• Bezier curve animation editing
• Dynamic TV effects (Aging TV, Broken TV, Noise TV)
• VirtualDub plugins support

AI Art Generator - the feature that allows for producing artistic interpretations of images and videos.
Face Landmarks - the AI-powered tool that allows for placing a stylized motion-tracked mask on a face of a person in the video.
Charts and diagrams - 3D charts including Pie, Radar, Bar, Spline, Step Line, Spline area, Funnel, Pyramid, etc. for optimized display of any complex data.
360-degree and 3D video editing
Color keyframes – the feature that allows for assigning colors to created keyframes when working with effects with a color parameter. The algorithm will calculate the linear color gradient between assigned colors and create a nice color animation.
Proxy file support - the feature that allows for creating lightweight media copies of high-resolution videos to improve the software performance and ensure smoother editing.

VSDC allows for splitting a video into audio and video layers and editing them as separate elements: as waveforms and video tracks.
Audio editing tools and effects:

• The Audio Spectrum tool animates a waveform to the rhythm of music or any other sounds.
• The built-in Voice over feature allows for recording voice and adding it to the footage.
• Audio amplitude effects (normalization, fading in and out, amplification) help to correct an imperfect soundtrack.
• Delay, time-stretch and reverse effects are tailored to give audio tracks relevant sounding: as if sung by a chorus, stretched in time or played backward.
• DeNoise tools (Median filter and Audio gate) for audio noise reduction.
• Simultaneous work with several audio tracks
• Edit the beat - a tool for synchronizing video effects and music beat automatically.

• List of video editing software

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