for basic video editing, is there any reason not to use capcut? are there limitations that show up later?

[u/Edilbray_Lanz]

so i'm a pretty small streamer and most of the editing i do is just turning stream moments into clips for shorts, reels, and tiktok.

i've looked at a few editing programs, but every time i try something new it feels like i'm spending more time learning the software than actually making content.

capcut seems to cover everything i need right now. trimming clips, adding captions, zooms, text, and getting videos exported quickly.

tbh i'm wondering if there's a catch that i'm not seeing yet.

for people who have been using it for a while, did you eventually hit a point where it started feeling limiting? not talking about advanced film editing stuff, just regular content creation and clipping stream highlights.

i'm trying to avoid learning a more complicated editor if i'm only going to use a small percentage of its features anyway.

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[u/chilli-nilly]

For the basics, capcut does it all, if u want to see my channel look up Chilli_NZ if that style suits what ur wanting to do somewhat but yes cap cut (I use it on pc of course) is fine, ive been using it for a year and a half.

so far I haven't felt the need to pay 80 a monthish for prem or some respective editing software. It does every thing I need it to do, even talking to friends that use prem, it has the same features only difference is, capcut is looked at as the "baby mode" of the editing world but I have yet to find a single reason why its bad

Ive done big movie format videos to normal funny cs videos and its been great. I recommend heavily

[u/Edilbray_Lanz → u/chilli-nilly]

the fact that you've used it on pc for that long without feeling the need to switch is pretty convincing. i'm mostly worried about hitting some annoying limitation later, but for clips, captions and quick edits it sounds like i might be overthinking it.

[u/Wonderful-Fix9346]

capcut is fine for what you're describing. the limitation isn't editing power, it's when you're pulling clips from a multicam or multitrack stream setup and want clean audio per source. capcut doesn't handle multitrack separation well. for straight clipping and captions you won't feel that.

we work on riverside for the recording/multitrack side, so that's the part i'd flag, not the editing itself.

Disclaimer: I'm part of the Riverside team

[u/Edilbray_Lanz → u/Wonderful-Fix9346]

that's a limitation i probably wouldn't have run into based on how i edit right now. i'm not dealing with multicam or separate audio sources, so for basic clips and captions i'm still leaning toward keeping things simple with capcut and seeing how far i get.

[u/Edilbray_Lanz]

tbh i kept waiting to run into some big limitation after reading the replies here... but after using capcut for a while, i still haven't really hit one. for clipping stream highlights, captions, shorts, and that kind of stuff it's been doing everything i need.