Product | Price | Overall Rating | Pricing | Production | Recording | Mixing | Price | Ease of Use | Royalty-Free Loops | Virtual Instrument Quality | Maximum Audio Tracks | Number Of Virtual Instruments | Number Of Effect Plugins | Effect Inserts Per Track | Effect Sends Per Track |
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Logic Pro X | View Deal | 4/5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 8.5 | $199.99 | A- | A | A | 255 | 23 | 69 | 15 | 8 |
Cubase Elements 9.5 | View Deal | 4/5 | 9.5 | 8.8 | 4.3 | 9.8 | $99.99 | B | B+ | A- | 48 | 3 | 51 | 16 | 16 |
Studio One Artist 3 | View Deal | 4/5 | 9.5 | 8 | 4.8 | 10 | $99.95 | C | A- | B | Unlimited | 5 | 29 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio | View Deal | 4/5 | 6 | 8 | 8.5 | 8 | $179.00 | B- | A- | C+ | Unlimited | 18 | 56 | Unlimited | 1 |
MAGIX Music Maker Premium 2015 | View Deal | 4/5 | 10 | 7.5 | 5 | 5.5 | $89.99 | C+ | B- | B | Unlimited | 8 | 20 | 2 | 2 |
FL Studio 12 Producer Edition | View Deal | 3.5/5 | 5 | 7.5 | 9 | 8.5 | $199.99 | B- | C | B+ | 103 | 23 | 54 | 10 | 10 |
Ableton Live 10 Intro | View Deal | 3.5/5 | 9.5 | 8.5 | 2 | 5.5 | $99.00 | B+ | C+ | A- | 16 | 4 | 29 | 2 | 2 |
Level | Products | Input formats | Output formats | Pros | Cons |
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For beginners | Apple iMovie | DV, HDV, AVCHD, Apple Intermediate Codec, Motion JPEG/A, iFrame, h.264, MP4, MOV... | H.264/MPEG-4, MOV, AVI, DV... | Available on iPhone/iPad; Comptiable well with Apple ecosystem | Audio is copyrighted |
Avidemux | 3GP, ASF, AVI, FLV, H263, JPEG, MKV, MP4, MPEG, MPEG4, MPG, and OGM | AVI, FLV, M1V, M2V, MKV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, OGM and TS | Clean and easy to use interface; Open source software without built-in purchase | Exporting process is slack | |
OpenShot | WebM, AVCHD, HEVC... | MP4, AVI, MPEG... | Provide free built in effects and animations; Support 3D title | Buggy at times; Freeze and crash often | |
ZS4 Video Editor | AVI, WAV, Image Files | AVI, WMV, WAV, Jpg, Png | More than 120 built-in video effects; unlimited tracks | User interface is not friendly | |
HyperEngine-AV | AVI, BMP, Cubic VR, DLS, DV, FLC... | AIFF, AVI, BMP, DV Stream, FLC, MPEG-4... | Includes twelve studio-quality effects; Create slide shows | Discontinued to release new version | |
For semi-pros | Kdenlive | AVI, MP4, FFmpeg... | QuickTime, AVI, WMV, MPEG... | Open source software | Not friendly for greenhands; Update slowly |
Blender | STL, ABC, FBX... | FBX, DAE, ABC... | Fast poly modeling tools; Customizable input | Unintuitive layers system; Animation management is not smooth | |
For pros | Davinci Resolve | MP4, MOV, MTS, AVI... | QuickTime, AVI, R3D, MXF, DPX... | Learning curve is not steep; Offer advance color grading | Single screen editing workflow is not friendly |
Lightworks | MPEG-2, AVC, RED R3D, DPX, Apple Pro Res... | MPEG4/H.264 | Package is lightweight; Only need 3GB RAM to use | Effect library is limited | |
HitFilm Express | H.264, AVCHD, QuickTime, AVI, M2T, M2TS, MTS, MXF | H.264, Apple ProRes, AVI | High level ideo effects compositor | No motion graphics feature |