I would love to see what vidders around my age and older think about the vidding style we're used to vs TikTok edits and the similarities and differences between those two lineages but since I was only ever adjacent to and not actually "in" that community (I make vids but never finish them lol), I don't know where to find those discussions, if they are occurring? Help?
ETA: Also, the youth have turned me onto Capcut (it's made by Bytedance, the company who makes TikTok, so if you're worried about that... welp), and dude.
1) it's free
2) it has all the functionality of Premiere and FCP (or at least all the functionality I was aware of and used?) only it's free. And hella easy to use if you're used to those. AND you can easily turn off the magnetic timeline. [ETA2: There's a version for mobile and for desktop. They're separate and don't sync with one another, which is a shame, but they're both great. Though desktop's version is better for higher-quality clip usage (since, how the hell are you important high-quality shit on mobile? It's all gonna be screen-recorded stuff from pirate sites. Can still look quite good, though!) and precision.]
In terms of clipping, I use Quicktime since Ventura doesn't let you use MPeg Streamclip anymore (which is a pity) and I remux with freeware called... Remux, which is useful for when QT decides to freak out about the file. Just remux it and that usually fixes the issue.
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