AVS Video Editor
Description
Online Media Technologies built AVS Video Editor for the consumer video editing segment — the person putting together a family vacation video, a birthday compilation, or a basic YouTube upload who needs a capable editor without the learning curve of professional software. The application includes the workflow from import to export: a timeline for organizing clips, a library of transitions and effects, titles and text overlays, audio mixing, color correction, and output to popular formats and devices. It ships as part of the AVS4YOU subscription that includes access to the company’s other multimedia tools — an audio editor, image editor, disc burner and media player — under a single plan.
AVS Video Editor is aimed at first-time and occasional video editors rather than professionals, and the design values guided workflows and available defaults over advanced customization. Users who want to produce presentable video without investing time in mastering an editor reach for tools in this category.
Timeline Editing
The timeline contains video tracks, audio tracks and overlay tracks in a layered format. Clips are dragged from the project media bin onto the timeline and trimmed by dragging the edges of the clips. The split tool cuts a clip at the position of the playhead. Ripple editing moves downstream clips when an upstream clip shortens, keeping the timeline sequence intact without having to manually reposition clips. The timeline supports multiple video and audio tracks for layering content — picture-in-picture effects, subtitle tracks and background music with the main video.
Transitions and Effects
The transitions library includes cuts, fades, wipes, zoom effects and 3D transitions that apply between adjacent clips by dragging a transition from the transitions library onto the cut point. The effects library applies filters and visual modifications to individual clips: color grading presets, blur, sharpen, stabilization for shaky footage, slow motion and noise reduction. Each effect has parameter sliders that allow adjusting the intensity without having to know anything about underlying technical values.
Titles and Text Overlays
The text editor adds titles, lower thirds, credits and subtitles as overlay layers on the timeline. Font, size, color, position, animation style and duration are configurable. Pre-designed title templates are styled starting points for opening titles and end credits without having to build the design from scratch. Animated text options cause text to move on and off screen with fly-in and fade effects.
Audio Editing
The audio mixer displays volume levels for each track in the timeline, and it enables the adjustment of volume by track and by clip. Fade in and fade out are applied to the beginning and end of audio clips. Background music is imported as a separate audio track below the video, and the ducking effect automatically reduces the music volume in sections where the video itself has sound. The built-in audio library offers royalty-free music tracks and sound effects to use in projects.
Color Correction
Color correction controls for brightness, contrast, saturation and hue and color balance apply per clip via the clip properties panel. Color presets use cinematic looks — warm tones, cool tones, vintage, and black-and-white — without needing to touch up. Auto-correction takes the clip and applies a baseline correction automatically.
Chroma Key
The chroma key tool is used to remove a solid color background — usually a green or blue screen — from a clip, and replace it with another video or image that is placed on the track below. The key color selects by clicking inside the clip preview and tolerance sliders control how precise the removal is at the edge areas and lighting variation in the source footage.
Export Options
Export presets include common output targets: MP4 for general use, AVI, MKV, MOV, WMV, and format specific presets for DVD authoring, Blu-ray, YouTube, Vimeo, iPhone, Android devices, and PlayStation. Resolution and bitrate change within each preset for users who wish to control output file size. Direct upload to YouTube is available on the export screen.
