GiliSoft Video Editor is Windows software for cutting and combining recordings, changing their picture and sound, and exporting edited videos. The current Pro edition provides both individual tools for processing files and Video Studio for projects with several media layers. A short trim can stay in a cutter, while a narrated demonstration can use separate video, text and audio tracks.
GiliSoft Video Editor’s cutting and joining tools
Easy Cutter extracts selected ranges from one video or audio file. Start and end markers define the material to keep, and more than one selection can be added before export. Batch Cutter handles several source files together when they need comparable trimming. Advanced Cutter combines range selection with changes such as cropping, rotation, subtitles and watermarks.
GiliSoft Video Editor Pro also provides a Joiner for placing files in a chosen playback order and producing one result. Its Split tool takes the opposite approach: it divides a long recording by duration, approximate file size or manually selected points.
Easy Cutter has an export option that copies compatible compressed video without re-encoding it. This can preserve the copied frames, but the beginning may move to a nearby keyframe that can be decoded independently. An exact frame boundary may require encoding. Cropping, adding visible text or changing the output codec also requires a rendered result.
Video Studio
Video Studio brings imported video, still images and audio into a project with a selected aspect ratio. Its timeline separates video, picture-in-picture, text, audio and voiceover content. Moving an item sets when it appears or plays; keeping those elements on separate tracks allows a caption, inset clip or narration to overlap the main footage.
The preview shows how the layers work together. Transitions control the change between scenes, while filters and overlays alter their appearance. Keyframes let supported properties change during a clip rather than remain fixed from its beginning to its end. Screen, microphone and voice recordings can also supply material for the project.
Adjusting the picture
Crop controls select the part of the original picture that remains visible. Rotation corrects sideways footage, and horizontal or vertical flipping changes its orientation. GiliSoft Video Editor Pro supports project shapes including widescreen, portrait and square, so framing can be adjusted for different presentation formats.
Picture-in-picture layers and split-screen layouts combine several views within the same picture. Chroma key separates a subject from a colored background for compositing, while AI matting provides another way to separate foreground and background. Brightness, contrast, saturation and tone controls adjust the image itself. Stabilization addresses shaky motion, and frame interpolation generates intermediate frames for smoother movement.
Subtitles, watermarks and blur regions
The Text workspace includes titles, dialogue styles, credits and subtitles. Text can be created in the editor or imported from SRT and ASS files, then adjusted for font, size, color, position and display duration. Timing can be checked against the video preview before output.
Watermark tools place text or images over the picture. For obscuring part of a recording, adjustable mosaic and blur regions cover details such as a face or information on a captured screen.
Soundtracks
Music and narration can occupy their own tracks in Video Studio. Imported sound can be trimmed, aligned with a scene and balanced against the original clip audio. Recording a voiceover supplies spoken commentary without requiring it to be part of the camera recording.
GiliSoft Video Editor Pro can also replace or remove a video’s soundtrack and extract sound into a separate audio file. Fade-in and fade-out controls shape how sound begins and ends; speed and reverse tools change its playback.
AI workspace tools
The AI workspace includes automatic captions, subtitle extraction, background changes, shot splitting and silence removal. These tools accept source material for a particular operation before the result is exported or brought into Video Studio. Caption text and SRT output can remain available for further text editing, while detected scene boundaries or cutouts may need correction.
Exporting or converting video
Finished projects can be exported in formats including MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV and MOV. Output controls cover resolution, frame rate, quality, codec and audio options where available. The separate conversion and compression tools handle an existing file when the main task is changing its format or reducing its resolution and quality for a smaller result.
GiliSoft Video Editor Pro also creates animated GIFs from video clips or image sequences and converts presentation or document material into video. Its 3D conversion tools produce anaglyph, side-by-side or top-bottom layouts for suitable viewing arrangements. The product is commercially licensed, with a trial available for evaluation.
